Brietta R. Clark JD

Professor Clark is an expert on health care law and inequality. Her research focuses on the structural defects and biases that create inequity in our health care delivery and financing systems, and the role that law and government regulators play in ensuring equitable access to health care resources. She has special expertise in the impact of Obamacare on Medicaid and private insurance access, reproductive and sexual health barriers, mental health care, and hospital closings in low-income neighborhoods. Clark is an affiliate faculty member of The Bioethics Institute at Loyola Marymount University and provides active service to numerous legal, medical, and consumer-based organizations and providers.

Prior to joining Loyola in 2001, Clark worked in the Los Angeles office of Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood, specializing in health care transactions and regulatory compliance. She was a post-graduate Fellow at the University of Southern California Law School.