Professional Summary
Peter D. Jacobson is Professor of Health Law and Policy in the Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan School of Public Health, and Director, Center for Law and Ethics and Health. He received his law degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1970, and a Masters in Public Health from UCLA in 1988. Before coming to the University of Michigan, he was Senior Behavioral Scientist at RAND from 1988 to 1996. His current research interests focus on the relationship between law and health care delivery and policy, law and public health systems, and health care safety net services.
In 1995, he received an Investigator Award in Health Policy Research from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to examine the role of the courts in shaping health care policy. The project culminated in the publication of the book Strangers in the Night: Law and Medicine in the Managed Care Era (Oxford University Press, 2002). Jacobson co-authored a law school casebook with Lawrence O. Gostin titled Law and the Health System (Foundation Press, 2005), and is also a co-author of False Hope vs. Evidence-Based Medicine: The Story of a Failed Treatment for Breast Cancer (Oxford University Press, 2007).
Professor Jacobson's current research interests focus on the relationship between law and health care delivery, law and public health systems, public health ethics, and health care safety net services. Currently, he is the Principal Investigator (PI) on studies examining how public health practitioners define and resolve day-to-day ethical challenges, the impact of state and federal law on public health preparedness, and enhancing organizational and operational efficiencies in Michigan's health care safety net providers.
Courses Taught
HMP652: Health Law
HMP653: Law and Public Health
HMP659: Health Care Regulation
Education
M.P.H., Health Services, University of California Los Angeles, 1988
J.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 1970
A.B., History, Dickinson College, 1967
Research Interest & Projects
Assessing the Impact of Federal and State Law on Public Health Preparedness
Sponsor: CDC
Measuring the Value of Public Health Services
Sponsor: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Care Financing and Organizations Program through AcademyHealth
Public Health Ethics in Practice: A Pilot Study of Day-to-Day Ethical Issues in Public Health Practice in Michigan.
Sponsor: Greenwall Foundation
Selected Publications
Neumann, P.J., Jacobson, P.D., and Palmer, J.A. (2008 forthcoming). Measuring The Value Of Public Health Systems: The Disconnect Between Health Economists and Public Health Practitioners American Journal of Public Health.
Baum, N.M., Gollust S.E., Goold, S., and Jacobson, P.D. (2008 forthcoming). Ethical Issues in Public Health Practice in Michigan American Journal of Public Health.
Jacobson, P.D., Tunick, M.E. (2007). Consumer-Directed Health Care and the Courts: Let the Seller (and Buyer) Beware Health Affairs, 26(3), 704-714.
Jacobson, P.D. (2008). Transforming Clinical Practice Guidelines into Legislative Mandates: Proceed With Abundant Caution Journal of the American Medical Association, 299, 208-210.
Jacobson, P.D., Parmet, W.E. (2007). A New Era of Unapproved Drugs: The Case of Abigail Alliance v. von Eschenbach Journal of the American Medical Association, 297, 205-208.
Jacobson, P.D., Rettig, R.A., and Aubry, W. (2007). Litigating the Science of Breast Cancer Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 32:785-818.
Jacobson, P.D., Bloche M.G. (2005). Improving Relations Between Attorneys and Physicians Journal of the American Medical Association, 294, 2083-2085.
Hyman, D.A., and Jacobson, P.D. (2006). Is A Dose of Competition Just What the Doctor Ordered? Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 31, 423-435.
Rettig R.A., Jacobson P.D., Farquhar C., and Aubrey W.M. (2007). False Hope: Bone Marrow Transplantation for Breast Cancer Oxford University Press.
Jacobson, P.D. (2005). Health Law 2005: An Agenda Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, 33, 725-738.
Professional Affiliations
Board of Editors, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Academy Health
American Public Health Association
American Health Lawyers Association
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