Lindsay Wiley, J.D., Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles

Lindsay F. Wiley is a professor of law and Faculty Director of the Health Law and Policy Program at UCLA Law where she teaches torts and various health law courses. Her research focuses on access to health care and healthy living and working conditions in the U.S. and globally. She is particularly interested in the law and ethics of governmental and private institutional powers and duties to protect and promote the public’s health. She is the author of Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint and Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader (with Lawrence O. Gostin) and Feminist Judgments: Health Law Rewritten (with Seema Mohapatra). Professor Wiley serves as a consultant to the Ethics Committee of the California Department of Public Health and as the U.S. Rapporteur for the Lex-Atlas Covid-19 Project, a global project comparing responses to Covid-19. She has served as a member of and consultant to committees convened by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine related to public health emergency response and federal communicable disease control powers. 

She is the current chair of the Board of Directors of ChangeLab Solutions, LLC, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses the tools of law and policy to advance health equity. She has previously served as President of the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, and as a member of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists, a joint standing committee of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Bar Association’s Section of Science and Technology Law. 

Montrece Ransom, J.D., M.P.H., Director, National Coordinating Center for Public Health Training.

Montrece Ransom was appointed as a Presidential Management Fellow and worked at CDC for almost 20 years. For the last 10 years of her service, Ms. Ransom led CDC’s public health law related training and workforce development efforts. She received her law degree from the University of Alabama, her MPH from Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health, and her Executive Leadership Coaching Certification from Georgetown University. In addition, she has received a certificate in training and facilitation from the Association of Talent Development. Ms. Ransom is the ABA Health Law Section’s 2019 Champion of Diversity and Inclusion Awardee, and the 2017 recipient of the American Public Health Association Jennifer Robbins Award for the Practice of Public Health Law. She is the President of the American Society for Law, Medicine, and Ethics and serves on the Advisory Committee for the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential.

Devoted to helping people reach their human potential, Ms. Ransom also spends a lot of time working on career pathing and professional development with new public health practitioners and public health lawyers.

She is also a well-known public speaker, peer-reviewed published author, the Co-Editor of the textbook, Public Health Law: Concepts and Case Studies.

Andrew Twinamatsiko, J.D., LL.B, Director, Center for Health Policy and the Law, O’Neill Institute

Andrew Twinamatsiko is a director of the Center for Health Policy and the Law at the O’Neill Institute. He provides technical assistance for policymakers and public education on health policy legal issues — primarily focusing on access to healthcare coverage, affordability, transparency, and equity. 
 
Prior to joining the O’Neill Institute, Twinamatsiko worked as a senior staff attorney at the Public Health Law Center at Mitchell Hamline School of Law. In that role, he provided legal technical assistance to public health professionals, governmental agencies, and advocates throughout the U.S. in developing policies to eliminate tobacco-related morbidity and mortality.  

Jill Krueger, J.D., Director, Network for Public Health Law—Climate Health Team

Jill Krueger, J.D., serves as Director of Climate and Health at the Network for Public Health Law. Jill’s current work involves collaboration with governmental, health care, and community partners to develop and spread legal and policy strategies to prevent and reduce the physical and mental health impacts of climate change and structural racism. Jill previously served as the director of the Network’s Northern Region. Before joining the Network in 2010, Jill was a senior staff attorney at Farmers’ Legal Action Group. She also served as an assistant attorney general in the Minnesota Attorney General’s Office. Jill previously served on the board of the Seward Community Co-op in Minneapolis, whose mission includes sustaining a healthy community.