Kirsten E. Leloudis writes, teaches, and consults on public health law. Her areas of expertise include North Carolina local health department structure and governance, state and federal medical privacy laws, child and adolescent health, health professionals’ mandatory reporting obligations, powers and duties of a local health director, and public health remedies. Leloudis primarily works with employees of North Carolina’s 86 local health departments but also provides training, consultation, and education to state agency staff, county attorneys, judicial officials, K-12 public school employees, and other stakeholders within North Carolina’s public health system.Â
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As a member of the larger UNC-Chapel Hill community, Leloudis serves on one of the University's institutional review boards that helps provide ethical and regulatory oversight of health-related research involving human subjects. Leloudis is also a mentor for undergraduate students as part of theÂ
Carolina Covenant program.
Prior to joining the School of Government in 2022, Leloudis served as an attorney in the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (NCDHHS), Division of Public Health. There, her work focused on administrative rulemaking, health information sharing, and COVID-19 response efforts. Before working with NCDHHS, Leloudis represented low-income North Carolinians in civil legal matters as an attorney for Legal Aid of North Carolina’s Medical-Legal Partnership program.
Leloudis is a born and raised North Carolinian. She received her law degree and master’s in public health at UNC-Chapel Hill, where she was also inducted into the Frank Porter Graham Graduate and Professional Student Honors Society and the Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health.
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