Ameet Sarpatwari, PhD, JD

Ameet Sarpatwari is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Assistant Director of the Program On Regulation, Therapeutics, And Law (PORTAL) within the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women's Hospital. His research draws upon his interdisciplinary training as an epidemiologist and lawyer and focuses on the effects of laws and regulations on therapeutic development, approval, use, and related public health outcomes.​Dr. Sarpatwari completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Virginia, where he was a Jefferson Scholar. He subsequently studied epidemiology at the University of Cambridge and law at the University of Maryland, where he was a John L. Thomas Leadership Scholar. Dr. Sarpatwari's current work focuses on risk evaluation and mitigation strategies, biosimilars, orphan drug policy, and drug development and pricing. In addition to his work with the Center for Bioethics, he also serves as a Faculty Affiliate with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, and the Behavioral Insights Group at the Harvard Kennedy School. He teaches an annual course on public health law at the Chan School.