Member Spotlight: Erin C. Fuse Brown

Member Erin C. Fuse Brown, JD, MPH will be presenting during February’s Public Health Law Webinar titled “Learning More about Health Impact Assessments.” The webinar will be held Thursday, February 16^th at 1pm (ET).

Erin is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, a Visiting Fellow for Ethics and Health Policy with the Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics at ASU, and the Deputy Director for the Network of Public Health Law-Western Region at ASU.

She and her colleagues at ASU’s Public Health Law and Policy Program have collaborated with the Health Impact Project to examine how existing legislation and regulations require, facilitate or even potentially inhibit the performance and use of HIAs by local agencies to develop regulations, programs, and policies.

Erin will speak about these findings during this online event. The webinar will also feature Aaron Wernham, Director of the Health Impact Project, and Harmony Gmazel of the Tri-County Regional Planning Commission, Lansing, Michigan.

ASLME is looking forward to working with Erin again in June, as she is part of the team at ASU Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law that is working on the Society’s 35^th Annual Health Law Professors Conference.

“ASLME provides great opportunities for colleagues from across disciplines in health, law and ethics to come together to share ideas and build lasting relationships,” says Erin.

At ASU Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Erin teaches health law and policy, bioethics and the law, and public health law and ethics. Prior to joining the faculty of ASU, Erin practiced in the health care group at Ropes & Gray’s San Francisco office. She has served as a law clerk for Judge Alan C. Kay on the U.S. District Court in the District of Hawaii.

Erin received a joint degree in law and public health from the Georgetown University Law Center and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. While working toward her dual degree, she was an associate editor of The Georgetown Law Journal, a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at Johns Hopkins, and a senior researcher for The Center for Law and the Public’s Health.