Professor Tina Batra Hershey is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health and an adjunct professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she teaches courses on health care compliance, health law and ethics, health care fraud, and health policy and management in public health.
At Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College, she is an adjunct instructor of Health Law. Her current and recent projects include enhancing tribal legal preparedness for public health emergencies through the Tribal Legal Preparedness Project; co-authoring public health emergency law manuals and bench books for the District of Columbia and Louisiana; and examining the impact of laws and policies related to infectious disease outbreaks, access to primary care after Superstorm Sandy, the delivery and quality of health care services, health equity, and the social determinants of health. Before coming to Pitt Public Health, she was a healthcare attorney in Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh. She is a member of the Pennsylvania and District of Columbia bars.
- JD, The George Washington University Law School
- MPH, Public Health Law Policy, The George Washington University School of Health and Health Services
- BA, Villanova University
Education & Training
- Hoffman BL, Hershey TB, Chu K, Sidani JE. Moving Public Health Beyond Partisan Politics. Vaccine. 2022 Jun 21; 40(28): 3815-3817. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2022.05.049
- Collaborative Public Health Strategie 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 [published online ahead of print January 31, 2020]. J Racial Ethnic Health Disp. 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
- Van Nostrand E, Hershey TB. "I walk in, sign. I don't have to go through Congress." President Trump's Use of Executive Orders to Unravel the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Journal of Health Law and Policy (in press).
- 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.
- Hershey TB, Van Nostrand E, Sood RK, Potter M. Legal Considerations for Health Care Practitioners After Superstorm Sandy. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness. 2016 Jun;10(3):518-24. doi: 10.1017/dmp.2016.
- 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
- Impact of law and policy on delivery and quality of health care services
- health equity and the social determinants of health
- public health emergency law and tribal legal preparedness
- legal epidemiology
- health care fraud, abuse, and compliance
