Dunn, Jennifer Templeton

Executive Director
UCSF / UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy

Jennifer Templeton Dunn is the Executive Director of the UCSF/Hastings Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy. Prior to joining UC Hastings, she served as the Law & Policy Advisor at UCSF's Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health where she worked to ensure that reproductive health care and policy are grounded in evidence. Licensed in California and New York, she began her legal career at a plaintiffs' class action law firm, where she litigated health care and civil rights cases in state and federal courts throughout the country.

Throughout her career, Jennifer has remained an unwavering champion of women's rights and fought for accessible, affordable health care and the elimination of discrimination. She taught Women’s Health and the Law as a Lecturer at Berkeley Law and more recently at UC Hastings. Her research interests include, among others, the history and current implications of "physician-only" abortion laws; the use (and misuse) of science in determining state and national health policy; and the implications of forced obstetrical interventions on maternal morbidity and personal autonomy.  Her book, Abortion in California: A Medical-Legal Handbook, is co-authored with ObGyn faculty at UCSF and will be coming out this Spring.

200 McAllister Street
San Francisco, CA 94102

Phone: 415-581-8983
dunnj@uchastings.edu