Benjamin Barsky, JD, PhD

Benjamin A. Barsky is Associate Professor of Law at the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco, and Consortium Advisory Board member of the UCSF-UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy. Barsky’s work sits at the intersection of law, health care policy, and public health ethics. Broadly, his research interrogates the relationship between law and inequalities in health—an issue he studies using different social scientific methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative. Currently, his research focuses on how criminal law enforcement shapes health, with a particular focus on policing, incarceration, and controlled substance law.