Tina Batra Hershey

Contributions to Public Health

• Teaching and Mentoring: My academic career has focused on teaching health/public health law and policy, with an emphasis on educating students about the power of law as a tool to achieve public health goals. I incorporate my experience as a former practicing attorney as well as my research activities in the classroom as much as possible. In our current, rapidly evolving legal environment, I strive to include the most pressing legal cases and controversies in my classes. I routinely mentor students interested in pursuing careers in law and policy. I am proud of being the recipient of the 2024 Dr. James L. Craig Endowed Excellence in Education award from the School of Public Health.
• Research: My research has focused on using legal epidemiology and other research methods to examine law and policy issues associated with the delivery and quality of health care services, emergency preparedness and tribal legal preparedness, health equity and the social determinants of health, and population health.
  • Hulsey E, Hershey TB, Parker LS, Kuza C, Fedro-Byrom S, Gellad WF. Overdose Risk Prediction Algorithms: The Need for a Comprehensive Legal Framework. Health Affairs Forefront, November 22, 2022. doi: 10.1377/forefront.20221118.549875
  • Collaborative Public Health Strategies to Combat E-cigarette Regulation Loopholes. JAMA Pediatr. 2021;175(11):1102-1104. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.2432
  • Chalasani R, Hershey TB, Gellad, WF. Cost and Access Implications of Defining CAR-T Therapy as a Drug. JAMA Health Forum. 2020;1(7):e200868. doi:10.1001/jamahealthforum.2020.0868
  • Hernandez I, Hershey TB, Donohue JM. Drug Shortages in the United States: Are Some Prices Too Low? JAMA. 2020;323(9):819-820. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.20504
  • Deveraj S, Stewart A, Baumann S, Elias TI, Hershey TB, Barinas-Mitchell E, Gary-Webb TL. Changes Over Time in Disparities in Health Behaviors and Outcomes by Race in Allegheny County: 2009-2015. J Racial Ethnic Health Disp. 2020; 7(5):838-843. doi: 10.1007/s40615-020-00705-x
  • Kahn JM, Davis BS, Yabes JG, Chang CH, Chong DH, Hershey TB, Martsolf GR, Angus DC. Association between State-Mandated Protocolized Sepsis Care and In-Hospital Mortality Among Adults with Sepsis. JAMA. 2019;322(3):240-250. doi:10.1001/jama.2019.9021
  • Hershey TB. Collaborating with Sovereign Tribal Nations to Legally Prepare for Public Health Emergencies. J Law Med and Ethics. 2019;47(S2): 55-58. 2019 doi: 10.1177/1073110519857318 
    Hershey TB and Kahn JM. State sepsis mandates - a new era for regulation of hospital quality. N Engl J Med. 2017:376:2311-2313. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp1611928.
  • Hershey TB, Pryde JA, Mwaungulu GS Jr, Phifer VI, Rozsak AR. Putting the law into practice: a comparison of isolation and quarantine as tools to control TB and Ebola. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2017 Mar/Apr;23(2):e25-e31. doi: 10.1097/PHH.0000000000000327.
  • Potter MA, Brown ST, Sweeney PM, Hershey TB, Cooley PC, Gleason SM, Lee BY, Keane CR, Grefenstette J, Burke DS.  School Closure as an Influenza Mitigation Strategy: How Variations in Legal Authority and Plan Criteria Can Alter the Impact.  BMC Public Health.  2012, 12:977. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-977.