Leslie C. Griffin
University of Nevada Las Vegas Boyd School of Law
April 14, 2025
Summer Chavez
University of Houston Tilman J. Fertitta Family College of Medicine
April 7, 2025
Elena M. Marks, J.D., M.P.H
Senior Fellow in Health Policy
Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Elena M. Marks, J.D., M.P.H., is the senior fellow in health policy at the Baker Institute. Her work focuses on reforming the $4.5 trillion health system so that it produces positive health outcomes, not just medical services. This work includes incorporating the delivery of and payment for nonmedical interventions into the system when appropriate to improve health outcomes.
Marks has been affiliated with the Baker Institute in a variety of capacities since 2010. Previously, she served as the founding president and CEO of the Episcopal Health Foundation, a $1.3 billion nonprofit, from 2014 to 2022 and as the director of health and environmental policy for the city of Houston from 2004 to 2009. Earlier in her career, she practiced law and started, built and sold a successful law-related business. Marks holds a bachelor’s degree from Emory University, a law degree from The University of Texas School of Law and a master’s in public health from The University of Texas School of Public Health
Joan H. Krause
Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law
March 24, 2025
Bartha Knoppers
Founding Director of the Centre of Genomics and Policy at McGill University
March 20, 2025
David S. Cade
Executive View President and CEO of the American Health Law Association
February 18, 2025
Chinelo Diké-Minor
Assistant Professor of Law at the Samford University Cumberland School of Law
February 12, 2024
Matthew Lawrence
Associate Professor of Law at Emory Law School
March 27, 2023
