Health Law Certificate Program Requirements

The program requirements are:

1 Required Upper Level Course

  • Health Law & Policy (3 Credits)

2 Core Elective Courses

  • Bioethics and Law
  • Health Care Business Transactions
  • Public Health Law
  • Health Care Fraud, Abuse & Compliance

At least 1 additional elective

  • Administrative Law
  • Bioethics and Law
  • Biotechnology Law
  • Business Planning, Entrepreneurship & Technology
  • Commercializing New Technologies
  • Current Issues in Health Law *beginning Fall 2024
  • Elder Law Seminar
  • FDA (Food & Drug Adm) Law & Policy
  • Health Care Business Transactions
  • Health Care Fraud, Abuse & Compliance
  • Health Justice Seminar
  • Implicit Bias in Health Care
  • Information Privacy: Law and Practice
  • Law of Disability Discrimination (The)
  • Mental Health Law 
  • Nonprofit Tax Exempt Organizations
  • Public Health Law
  • Reproductive Rights

2 credits minimum in a skills course

  • DC Externship
  • Elder Law Clinic
  • Health Law Clinic
  • Health Law Transactional Competition
  • Health Law-related externship
  • Implicit Bias in Health Care
  • Law in Public Health Practice (GSPH)

Paper in satisfaction of upper level writing requirement

Current Course Offerings

Current Issues in Health Law - 2-credit course; students must complete both semesters.

Required Upper-Level Courses

Current Issues in Health Law
Term Professor(s) Course Credits
Fall Term 2023-2024

Professor

1
Spring Term 2023-2024

Professor

1
Health Law & Policy
Term Professor(s) Course Credits
Fall Term 2023-2024

Professor

3

CORE ELECTIVE COURSES

Electives

Choose 2 courses from this list of electives.

Bioethics and Law
Term Professor(s) Course Credits
Spring Term 2023-2024

Professor

3
Health Care Fraud, Abuse & Compliance
Term Professor(s) Course Credits
Spring Term 2023-2024

Professor

2

Choose 2 courses from this list of electives.

ADDITIONAL ELECTIVES

Related Courses

Bioethics and Law
Term Professor(s) Course Credits
Spring Term 2023-2024

Professor

3
Spring Term 2023-2024

Professor

3
Biotechnology Law
Term Professor(s) Course Credits
Fall Term 2023-2024

Professor

2
Business Planning, Entrepreneurship & Technology
Term Professor(s) Course Credits
Fall Term 2023-2024

Professor

2
Commercializing New Technologies
Term Professor(s) Course Credits
Fall Term 2023-2024

Professor

Professor

3
Implicit Bias in Health Care
Term Professor(s) Course Credits
Spring Term 2023-2024

Professor

2
Nonprofit Tax Exempt Organizations
Term Professor(s) Course Credits
Spring Term 2023-2024

Professor

2

SKILLS COURSES

Skills

D.C. Externship
Term Professor(s) Course Credits
Spring Term 2023-2024

Professor

8 - 10
Elder Law Clinic
Term Professor(s) Course Credits
Fall Term 2023-2024

Professor

7
Elder Law Lab
Term Professor(s) Course Credits
Spring Term 2023-2024

Professor

4
Implicit Bias in Health Care
Term Professor(s) Course Credits
Spring Term 2023-2024

Professor

2

Upper Level Writing Requirement

A paper on a topic in health law in any course or seminar that satisfies the Upper Level Writing Requirement. For more information, consult the program director.

Additional Related Courses: Other Graduate Level Courses

All Pitt Law students may take a maximum of 6 credits of graduate level courses outside the School of Law for credit toward the Health Law Certificate with permission of the program director.  Courses that are especially relevant are those offered by the Department of Health Services Administration in the Graduate School of Public Health, the Center for Bioethics and Health Law, and the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie-Mellon University. See http://my.pitt.edu, PeopleSoft, Self-Service, Browse Catalog for a listing of all Pitt courses. For advice about taking courses outside the law school, you may wish to consult the Health Law Certificate Program Director.