Master’s Degree Tracks
Health Law & Policy Track

This course provides a deeper examination into the issues that arise when negotiating and interpreting contracts. We will cover the fundamentals of business contracts, with a practical lens, and examine how to draft them to avoid disputes. We will learn about the UCC and its role in contract enforcement, as well as warranties, defenses, remedies, third party interests, and choice of law decisions. Emphasis will include tools of negotiation that help ensure the intentions of the parties are upheld.

This course will survey bioethics issues prominent in health care delivery, including "aid in dying," genetic therapies and research, the treatment relationship, informed consent, clinical research, organ transplantation and advances in biotechnology.  In this course, you will apply principles of bioethics to legal, medical, scientific and business scenarios to determine how ethical principles should affect decision-making and strategy in the business, clinical, litigation and legislative processes.

An overview of cyber risks, along with the laws and regulations that apply to the rapidly changing threat landscape of cybersecurity. We will explore the impacts of data breaches, data privacy challenges, cyber-criminal motives, and common strategies used to combat cyber warfare.  After studying the strategies and challenges of preserving the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of sensitive information such as personally identifiable information (PII), financial information, and protected health information (PHI), you will develop a cybersecurity risk mitigation strategy for your workplace or personal data.

An introduction to the detection of wrongdoing in the workplace, with an emphasis on the following key methods: investigations, monitoring, and auditing. Coverage includes essential investigation components and pitfalls, as well as the use of auditing and monitoring to detect and prevent misconduct.

This course will provide in-depth coverage of health care compliance programs and laws, progressing from the basics of a compliance program to specific issues facing the health care industry. The course is structured to include both a "compliance" and "legal" component for each module. The compliance portion of the course will focus on the seven elements of an effective compliance program, while the legal portion will cover selected laws impacting health care compliance, including HIPAA, the Stark Law, the Anti-Kickback Statute, and the federal False Claims Act.

Today's employees must understand public policy and how it impacts their constituents. This is particularly true when navigating the state and federal responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This course will study the development and implementation of public policy with a focus on pandemic relief legislation.

This course will introduce students to a variety of sources commonly used in legal research (statutes, cases, administrative regulations, etc.). Students will learn how to perform efficient searches in a variety of free and subscription services available via the Wake Forest Law Library's website. Topics that will be covered include: statutory research, both state and federal; federal and state case law; administrative codes and regulations, state and federal; municipal codes and ordinances; legislative history, primarily at the federal level; secondary sources.

The changing landscape of how we pay for health care, consisting of Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance, and health insurance reform. This course will examine the current fee-for-service system and its alternatives, as well as the policies behind these models.

This optional two-day residential course considers the sustainability of the modern US corporation – can the corporation meet current social needs while enabling future generations to meet theirs? We begin by looking at the corporation’s current and unsustainable design: its externalization of costs, its short-term focus, its groupthink decision-making, and its political personhood. We then consider recent (and remarkable) triple-bottom-line responses to this design: environmental stewardship (planet), voluntary CSR (people), and socially responsible investing (profits). We conclude by exploring some potential paradigm shifts: new social enterprise forms, new environmental/social reporting, and the corporation as a moral system.

This course is an introduction to the legal landscape governing the use of digital information and telecommunication technologies in patient care delivery. Coverage will include licensing and credentialing, technology, business models, contracts and governance issues impacting the rapidly growing global digital health industry.

This course is designed to provide a general understanding of health theory and policy. This includes exploration of economic and political philosophies, and their impact on health policy development; consideration of the impact of cost, access, and quality; policy-development theories; legislative processes; as well as frameworks for health policy analysis and advocacy.

Throughout history, women in male-dominated fields or positions of authority have often been perceived as violating well-established (albeit socially constructed) sex and gender norms, which at times, has resulted in sex discrimination. This interdisciplinary, asynchronous course holistically explores the intersection of women, law, leadership, and character, illuminating the barriers faced and progress made by and for women. First, it examines what character is, why it matters, and how it is taught. Next, it explores how leadership is defined, theories and strategies for effective leadership, and how leadership skills can be developed. Then the course moves into a basic exploration of anti-discrimination frameworks that aim to prohibit discrimination against and sexual harassment of women. It also explores unconscious sex bias, privilege, and sex stereotyping, which are concurrently both the cause and effect of discrimination against and sexual harassment of women. After providing this foundation, the course then takes a weekly deep dive into specific hypermasculine spheres. Each unit will highlight specific character traits and leadership attributes necessary to overcome the barriers women face when navigating male-dominated fields.