Elizabeth Hall-Lipsy earned her MPH in 2002 and JD in 2005, both from the University of Arizona. She has a unique background combining education, practice and research experience in public health and law. She began her public health career as a research assistant at the Southwest Center for Community Health Promotion building and measuring community capacity in rural and border communities using community based participatory research methods. After practicing law as a civil litigator, she returned to academia to coordinate The University of Arizona College of Pharmacy’s rural health programs where she developed and now coordinates the Professional Certificate in Pharmacy-Related Health Disparities. She is currently an Assistant Professor at The University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, with an affiliate appointment in the James E. Rogers College of Law, as the co-director of the Regulatory Science Group. She is also the director of the PharmD Forward Program which seeks to create unique learning opportunities across professional curriculums including the health sciences, law, and business. She has partnered with colleagues to investigate the role of pharmacists in improving clinical, safety, humanistic and economic outcomes, as well as investigating the impact of changes in law to reduce mental health benefits on patients with a serious mental illness. She was the co-recipient of the 2013 College of Psychiatric and Neurological Pharmacists (CPNP) Original Research Award for a project entitled: “Economic Impact of Public Benefit Changes on Seriously Mentally Ill Patients in Southern Arizona,” which was a collaborative research project with a practice based faculty member located at the largest inpatient and outpatient behavioral health provider in the region. Professor Hall-Lipsy has jointly authored three text book chapters, on pharmacy law and legal aspects of management and employment law. She has been published in scholarly journals including Medical Care, American Journal of Health-Systems Pharmacy, EMBO Molecular Medicine, and the American Journal of Law Medicine and Ethics. She has also presented and national and international conferences on a variety of health disparities, health policy, and interprofessional research and practice topics.