Opportunities

Solomon Center Deputy Director

The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School seeks to hire its first Deputy Director beginning in the summer or fall of 2022. The Deputy Director will work closely with the center’s staff (Professor Abbe Gluck, Executive Director Katie Kraschel, as well as administrative staff, research fellows, and visiting and adjunct health faculty) to assist in all of the center’s work including its daily operations, programing, and coordination of the center’s numerous projects and initiatives. The Deputy Director will assist in overseeing and coordinating the center’s scholarly and policy projects, Medical Legal Partnership Program, panel discussions and events including large conferences, student fellows program (including students from all Yale University professional schools), alumni engagement, and communications. The center’s work covers all areas of health care law and policy from the opioid crisis, to prison health, gun violence, medical legal partnerships, health equity, digital health, the Affordable Care Act, elder law, palliative care, and more.

The Deputy Director will contribute to the center's strategic growth and may have opportunities to pursue their own scholarship and clinical or policy projects. Both full and part time applications will be considered.

Skills

Outstanding organizational skills
Excellent communication and collaboration-building skills
Ability to meet deadlines

Experience/Knowledge

Expertise or knowledge of current topics in health law and policy is a plus

Education

JD; PhDs will be considered.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Interested applicants should send their resume/CV and three references to the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School at Health.Law@Yale.edu. As we currently have multiple positions for which we are seeking applications, please include the name of the position of interest in the subject line of the email.

Solomon Center Research Director

The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School seeks to hire its first Director of Research beginning in the summer or fall of 2022. The Research Director will provide leadership and project management in all aspects of the center’s substantive work and will work closely with the center’s staff (Professor Abbe Gluck, Executive Director Katie Kraschel, Legal Director of Medical Legal Partnerships, as well as administrative staff, fellows, and visiting and adjunct health faculty). The center’s work covers all areas of health care law and policy from the opioid crisis, to prison health, gun violence, medical legal partnerships, health equity, digital health, the Affordable Care Act, elder law, palliative care, and more.

The Research Director will contribute to the center’s growth and help map its trajectory by identifying new initiatives and collaborations to further strengthen the Center’s scholarly and real-world impact. While the director may not substantively contribute to every project, they will be instrumental in tracking the progress and ensuring they move forward in a timely manner. The Director of Research will also be encouraged to pursue their own scholarship and clinical or policy projects. Both full and part-time applications will be considered.

Skills

Excellent communication and collaboration-building skills
Excellent academic research and writing skills
Project management and ability to meet deadlines

Experience/Knowledge

Expertise or knowledge of current topics in health law and policy
Experience working across disciplines, particularly with medical professionals
Experience grant and other funding proposal writing is a plus
Literacy in quantitative and qualitative research methods is a plus

Education

JD; PhDs will be considered.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Interested applicants should send their resume/CV, three references, and a statement of interest including areas of health law in which they have particular interest to the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School at Health.Law@Yale.edu. As we currently have multiple positions for which we are seeking applications, please include the name of the position of interest in the subject line of the email.

Solomon Center Senior Research Fellow

The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School is seeking to hire a recent J.D. to serve as a Senior Fellow for the center beginning in the summer or fall of 2022.

The fellow will assist in all aspects of the center’s substantive work and will work closely with the center’s staff (Professor Abbe Gluck, Executive Director Katie Kraschel, as well as administrative staff and visiting and adjunct health faculty). Fellows will have time to pursue their own scholarship and clinical or policy projects. All previous fellows who have entered the legal academia job market have obtained tenure-track positions following their Solomon fellowship. The fellowship is available for one or two years, and both full-time and part-time applications will be considered.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Interested applicants should send their resume/CV, three references, and a statement of interest including areas of health law in which they have particular interest to the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School at Health.Law@Yale.edu. As we currently have multiple positions for which we are seeking applications, please include the name of the position of interest in the subject line of the email.

Solomon Center International COVID Litigation Fellow

The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School is seeking to hire a recent J.D. to serve as its International COVID Litigation fellow beginning immediately. The fellow will work on the Center's collaboration with University of Trento on an international database of COVID litigation. The Center's contributions to the project will focus principly on US Law. However, there may be opportunities for comparative and international research stemming from the patterns and themes identified in the database. The fellow may also assist in other aspects of the center's work and will work closely with the center's staff (Professor Abbe Gluck, Executive Director Katie Kraschel, as well as administrative staff, visiting and adjunct health faculty, and other research fellows). All previous fellows who have entered the legal academia job market have obtained tenure-track positions following their Solomon fellowship. The fellowship is available for one or two years, and both full-time and part-time applications will be considered.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Interested applicants should send their resume/CV, three references, and a statement of interest to the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School at Health.Law@Yale.edu. As we currently have multiple positions for which we are seeking applications, please include the name of the position of interest in the subject line of the email.

Solomon Center Medical Legal Partnership Research Associate

The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School seeks applications for a quantitative research associate to contribute to a critical gap in the legal and biomedical scholarly literature by completing an interdisciplinary, quantitative study to evaluate Medical Legal Partnerships (MLPs). The role is a 1 or 2-year position with possibility for renewal based upon performance and funding. Part-time applications will be considered.

MLPs embed legal services into the healthcare setting, allowing patients to address health-harming civil legal needs in a trusted setting. The Solomon Center has been a pioneer in the MLPs in New Haven; it founded the legal component of six of them, was a co-founder of a seventh, and provides student staffing for the eighth. Both sides of the partnerships – medical and legal, seek to empirically evaluate the programs.

Our MLPs offer a unique laboratory because of their unprecedented diversity in a single city. Each addresses the needs of a distinct patient population: immigrants, veterans, former prisoners transitioning into the community, children, palliative care patients, geriatric patients, oncology patients, and transgender pediatric patients. No empirical study has ever evaluated the value of the “L” – the law component specifically – in an MLP.

The research associate will lead the conceptual design in order to address the key questions about the variety of benefits MLPs are intended to achieve. The research associate will also oversee IRB approval, HIPAA compliance and any waivers necessary; review existing data collection and screening processes to determine what components need to be added or changed; oversee the implementation of the infrastructure and evaluative tools necessary to produce data; and oversee data collection and analysis. We expect a series of publications to ensue, which will be major and new contributions to the MLP literature. This collaboration between lawyers, doctors, public health professionals, and community partners creates an unprecedented opportunity to be at the forefront of MLP scholarship at a time when MLPs are growing rapidly across the country.

Duties/Responsibilities:

Liaise closely with the attorneys, faculty, fellows, physicians, and students involved in the MLP program to understand the MLP models, patient populations, processes and data intake model for each MLP
Lead conceptual study design to identify and eventually implement quantitative metrics to evaluate the MLPs and identify the appropriate study populations.
As appropriate and consistent with the identified study design, develop forms and/or questionnaires and coordinate the application of research techniques.
Oversee submission of study protocols to the University IRB, as appropriate.
Ensure study timeline is well-defined and followed, and seek guidance and provide updates to Solomon Center staff and other colleagues as needed.
Supervise the work of medical/law students and others collecting data, and, as needed train individuals in data collection techniques.
Oversee data collection and maintenance and perform statistical analysis of data
Write-up work/assist in drafting manuscripts for submission to publications
Perform such other tasks as needed to complete the research project.

Skills

Quantitative study design, particularly as related to health and social determinants of health
Quantitative/statistical analysis
Excellent communication, networking, and collaboration-building skills
Strong academic writing skills
Project management and ability to meet deadlines
Ability to communicate across disciplines and expertise

Experience/Knowledge

Experience doing quantitative study design and research on health outcomes and/or social determinants of health
Experience with cost-effectiveness and/or comparative effectiveness research (desirable though not required).
Experience in modern epidemiology and causal inference is (desirable though not required)
Knowledge of MLPs, social determinants of health, health care delivery systems, and/or legal aid services
Experience working on interdisciplinary research projects and/or projects involving multiple stakeholders
Experience collaborating on academic publications

Education

PhD or Master's degree; PhD candidates will be considered. Formal training in quantitative public health research methods is preferred.

Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Interested applicants should send their resume/CV, three references, and a statement of interest to the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School at Health.Law@Yale.edu. As we currently have multiple positions for which we are seeking applications, please include the name of the position of interest in the subject line of the email.

About the Solomon Center

The Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School is the first of its kind to focus on the intersection of law and the governance, practice, and business of health care. The Center brings together leading experts and practitioners from the public and private sectors to address cutting-edge questions of health law and policy, and to train the next generation of top health lawyers, industry leaders, policymakers, and academics.

The Center was established to meet a critical need for a new academic and legal-professional discipline that responds to the rapidly evolving environment of health care and its centrality in the nation’s economy and government. Among the few health law centers at U.S. law schools, the Solomon Center is unique in its focus not only on the government’s role in health care, but also health care business and physicians and scientists themselves. The Solomon Center distinguishes itself by doing what Yale does best: focusing on law as a tool to affect governance, industry, and the academy.

The Center’s work is highly interdisciplinary. Programming includes many course offerings, both academic and experiential; career planning; academic research, policy work and litigation briefs; and numerous high-profile panels and conferences that bring academic, government, and business leaders in health care to the Law School. In addition to hosting a steady stream of academic visitors from all disciplines to enrich programming and course offerings, the Center supports student research, field work, and publications. Building on relationships with the Yale School of Medicine, Yale Cancer Center, Yale New Haven Hospital, Yale School of Management, and Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, the Center brings together all that Yale has to offer to make a difference both at Yale and beyond.

Yale University considers applicants for employment without regard to, and does not discriminate on the basis of, an individual’s sex, race, color, religion, age, disability, status as a veteran, or national or ethnic origin; nor does Yale discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity or expression. Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 protects people from sex discrimination in educational programs and activities at institutions that receive federal financial assistance. Questions regarding Title IX may be referred to the University’s Title IX Coordinator, at TitleIX@yale.edu, or to the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, 8th Floor, Five Post Office Square, Boston MA 02109-3921. Telephone: 617.289.0111, Fax: 617.289.0150, TDD: 800.877.8339, or Email: ocr.boston@ed.gov.