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Assistant Professor of Law
Elon University
Addiction & Public Policy Initiative, O'Neill Institute for Global and National Health Law, Georgetown Law
Greensboro, North Carolina
Dr. Taleed El-Sabawi an Assistant Professor of law at Elon University who teaches Property Law, Wills & Trusts, Addiction Law & Policy and Public Health Law. She is an interdisciplinary scholar, with a JD from the University of Texas School of Law and a PhD in Public Health, Health Services Management and Policy with a doctoral cognate in Political Science from the Ohio State University. She specializes in the use of qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze texts, including congressional hearing testimony, regulations, legislation, news media, poltiical speeches and interview transcripts.
Her area of expertise is in addiction and mental health policy, politics and law. Dr. El-Sabawi has studied and written extensively on legislative decision-making, interest group mobilization (including law enforcement lobbying) and narrative discourse surrounding opioid overdose deaths; addiction policy history, specifically as it relates to federal administrative regulation of potentially habit-forming substances; and substance use disorder treatment financing parity. Recently, Dr. El-Sabawi co-authored a model law that creates non-police behavioral health crisis response teams and has been assisting grassroots advocacy groups in developing narrative strategies to garner political support for the reform of institutions that perpetuate racial violence. Dr. El-Sabawi has also co-authored a number of articles appearing in public health and medical journals.
Dr. El-Sabawi is on the board of advisors of the North Carolina Urban Survivors Union, a chapter of the Urban Survivors Union, and frequently works alongside persons who use drugs advocating for policy reform.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
Monday, April 18, 2022
2:30 PM – 3:45 PM ET