Tina Batra Hershey, JD, MPH is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health and an Affiliated Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where she teaches courses on health care fraud, abuse, and compliance; health law and ethics; and health policy and management. She is also the Co-Director of the MPH and JD/MPH programs in the Department of Health Policy and Management.
Her research interests include 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, population health, and health equity. Before coming to Pitt Public Health, she was a health care attorney in Washington, D.C., and Pittsburgh. She is a member of the Pennsylvania and District of Columbia bars.
1999, Juris Doctor (with honors), The George Washington University Law School, Washington, DC
1999, Master of Public Health in Health Policy, The George Washington University School of Health and Health Services, Washington, DC
1996, Bachelor of Arts, Psychology (cum laude), Villanova University, Villanova, Pa
HPM 2001, Health Policy and Management in Public Heath
HPM 2130, Health Law and Ethics
HPM 2134, Health Care Fraud, Abuse, and Compliance
LAW 5673, Health Care Fraud Abuse, and Compliance
The 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.
1. 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
2. Collaborative Public Health Strategie to Combat E-cigarette Regulation Loopholes. JAMA Pediatr. 2021;175(11):1102-1104. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.2432
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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).
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. 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
