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Anna Kirkland is a Kim Lane Scheppele Collegiate Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in Women's Gender Studies at the University of Michigan. She received her JD from the University of California in 2001, followed by a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy in 2003. Kirkland's research interests encompass law, courts, politics, health discrimination, and the intersections of gender law and health policy. She has served on national panels, including the National Academies, and directed the Institute for Research on Women and Gender. Among her notable publications are 'Health Care Civil Rights: Discrimination Law Fails Patients,' which examines civil rights law within healthcare settings, and 'Vaccine Court: Law Politics Injury'. Kirkland's work has received funding from the National Science Foundation and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to investigate how insurance benefit designs affect IVF outcomes. She collaborates with fellow researchers on health policy and discrimination law and teaches courses on these topics at the University of Michigan.
University of Michigan • Ann Arbor, MI
Serves as a Kim Lane Scheppele Collegiate Professor in Women's Gender Studies, focusing on the intersections of law and health policy.
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science