Sam Halabi is the Bette Jacobs Endowed Professor in Georgetown University's Department of Health Management and Policy and directs the Center for Transformational Health Law at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Prior to joining O'Neill as a director, Prof. Halabi served as the senior associate vice-president for Health Policy and Ethics in Colorado State University's Office for the Vice-President of Research and as a professor at the Colorado School of Public Health. He is the former Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law and director of the Center for Intellectual Property and Entrepreneurship at the University of Missouri, where he earned the Husch Blackwell Award for Distinguished Teaching.
He has published five books and more than 100 manuscripts in the fields of public health law, data sharing, vaccine access, the philosophy of medicine, technology transfer, public health ethics, the international law of food and nutrition, and universal health coverage. His work on international cooperation and data sharing in epidemic and pandemic preparedness has been supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Resolve to Save Lives, the Wellcome Trust, the Wilson Center, and the World Health Organization. His work is published in the Georgetown Law Journal, the Harvard International Law Journal, JAMA, the Lancet, the New England Journal of Medicine, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society and the Yale Journal of International Law. Halabi advises or has advised the COVAX Facility, the World Bank, the World Health Organization, and the National Foundation for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, among other national and international organizations. He is a member of the World Health Organization's Working Group on Regulatory Approaches to AI and Health, where he co-leads the training and knowledge tools workstream.
His research on the law of companies and corporations has been cited by both federal and state courts in the U.S. He is a member of the board of the International Food Security Treaty Campaign and UNICEF-India's Technical Advisory Group on Restricting Digital Food Marketing to Protect Children in India.
As the Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Health Law, Policy, and Ethics, he created a comparative framework to analyze the role of states, provinces, and territories in access to health care for First Nations, American Indian, and Alaska Native populations in Canada and the United States.
Previously, he practiced law at the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins and clerked for Judge Nanette K. Laughrey of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Missouri. He is a member of the Colorado Bar.
He holds a J.D. from Harvard, an M.Phil. from the University of Oxford, and undergraduate degrees in both social and natural sciences, summa cum laude, from Kansas State University.
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Professor, SOH - Health Management and Policy Academic Department
- Secondary
- Adjunct Professor of Law, Law School