Lynette Martins

Professor Martins most recently taught Public Health Law and The Patient-Clinician Relationship (Bioethics) as an adjunct assistant professor at New York Medical College. She also is a Global Institute of Human Rights Scholar with the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; currently serves as co-chair of the immigration and bioethics affinity group of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities; and is the project lead for an NIH-funded Parkinson’s Disease initiative in The Bahamas. Previously, she served as a senior research fellow at the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy and an associate research scholar at Yale Law School, where she was a member of the clinical ethics committee at Yale New Haven Hospital. She also worked as a research assistant at Georgetown University’s O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. 

Professor Martins holds an LLM, with distinction, from Georgetown University and a master of bioethics, magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a postgraduate diploma in population health evidence from the University of Manchester and a law degree from the University of Huddersfield, both in the UK. ​