Elenora Connors

Elenora “Nora” Connors, J.D., M.P.H., is a fellow at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. She holds a law degree and a Master of Public Health from the University of Wisconsin, Madison where she designed and created the first JD/MPH individualized program at the University. Before starting graduate school, Nora worked as an Associate Research Specialist in a behavioral neuroscience lab.

As a graduate student, Nora worked in a variety of health law, public health law, and public interest settings. She worked at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the Office of General Counsel, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and for the Public Health Law Program. At the CDC she researched public health legal preparedness and the legal implications of infectious disease control. Nora also interned with the Office of Legal Counsel for the Bureau of Assisted Living, Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services. Additionally, she counseled incarcerated clients with a law school criminal clinic: Legal Assistance to Institutionalized Persons.

Nora is interested in a variety of areas of public health law including health care policy and reform, mental health policy, prison reform, public health legal preparedness, pharmaceutical regulation, and the intersection of intellectual property rights and public health.