Alexandra Hess (she/her) is the Legal Training Manager at the Center for Public Health Law Research where she provides training and technical assistance in legal mapping methods. Alex promotes legal epidemiology as a tool to achieve evidence-based, equitable health policy. She believes that public health law research should be accessible to all.
Prior to her current role, Alex helped develop the Center’s abortion, exclusionary school discipline, and preemption datasets. Before joining the Center, she contributed to the Healthy People 2020 Law and Health Policy Project, supporting research that identifies legal opportunities to achieve national public health objectives. She has also contributed to research on drug policy, environmental justice, and public health preemption.
Alex earned her MPH from the Barnett College of Public Health at Temple University in 2022. She earned her JD from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University in 2018, receiving the highest distinction in Pro Bono service. She is licensed to practice law in the State of New Mexico and currently serves on the Board of the Southwest Women’s Law Center.