Professor Porter is the Executive Director of Brooklyn Law School's Center for Health, Science, and Public Policy. She has taught courses at Washington University Law School on law and medicine, and AIDS and the law. Prior to teaching, she held a post-doctoral fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center/The Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine. Her background also includes work as a senior policy analyst and staff counsel to the National Commission on AIDS, and she has authored numerous publications related to AIDS policy.