Kristen Underhill, JD, DPhil, MSc
Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Professor of Law
Biography
Kristen Underhill is the Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Professor of Law at Cornell.
Her teaching and research interests include torts, health law, and law and economics. She holds a JD from Yale, a DPhil from Oxford, and an AB from Harvard, and she is jointly appointed at Weill Cornell Medical College in the Department of Population Health Sciences. Her empirical research uses original surveys, randomized trials, and qualitative methods to assess the relationships among law, behavior, and health outcomes.
Underhill’s recent projects include studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on state laws addressing postpartum health, prenatal and postpartum drug use, capacity to consent to health care, and sex education; her previous grant-funded work has focused on Medicaid experimental waivers, health care discrimination, and access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) for preventing HIV.
She previously completed a NIH-funded T32 postdoctoral fellowship at the Brown University Center for Alcohol and Addictions Studies, and a K01 grant at Yale Law School and the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS.