Robert Field is a nationally recognized expert on health policy and public health
law whose research focuses on ethical issues in managed care, public policy and legal
facets of health care reform and genetic screening. He holds a joint appointment as
professor of health management and policy at the Drexel School of Public Health.
He is the author of Health Care Regulation in America: Complexity, Confrontation and
Compromise, a comprehensive guide to the government's role in regulating health care
in the United States published by Oxford University Press. His recent publications also
include "A Taxonomy of American Health Care Regulation: Implications for Health
Reform," in the Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review, "A Proposed
Ethical Framework for Vaccine Mandates: Competing Values and the Case of HPV" in the
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, and "Beyond Drug Coverage: The Cumulative
Effect of Privatization Reforms in the Medicare Modernization Act" in the Saint
Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy.
Before joining the faculty of the law school, he taught at University of the Sciences in
Philadelphia, where he founded and chaired the Department of Health Policy and Public
Health and directed the Graduate Program in Health Policy.
Previously, Professor Field led business planning and development for the primary care
network of the University of Pennsylvania Health System, where he was in charge of
acquisitions of physician practices that created the network and directed other business
development activities. He has also conducted health policy research at the Institute of
Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the Center for Law and Health Sciences
at Boston University and practiced health law with Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll
in Philadelphia. He is a senior fellow of the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics
at the University of Pennsylvania and a member of the adjunct faculty of the Wharton
School.
Professor Field earned his J.D. at the Columbia University School of Law, where he was
associate editor of the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law.
