Sarah Sorscher, J.D., M.P.H.

Attorney

Sarah completed a J.D./M.P.H. at Harvard Law School and Harvard School of Public Health in 2010, and spent one year clerking for Judge Stephen Glickman of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia before joining the Health Research Group in September 2011. During her time at HLS/HPSH, Sarah completed internships with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Office of Chief Counsel and the New England Tuberculosis Consortium. She also served as Corporate Secretary and member of the National Coordinating Committee for Universities Allied for Essential Medicines, a student-led non-profit dedicated to improving access to medicines for people in developing countries. Prior to graduate school, Sarah interned at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights, a human rights non-profit based in Cairo, Egypt and worked as a health advocate at the Urban Justice Center, a public interest law firm in New York City. Sarah graduated from Amherst College in 2006 with a degree in Anthropology.

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