Erin Kelly

Erin Kelly is a 2026 Juris Doctor candidate at the University of Houston Law Center, where she focuses on health law, regulatory compliance, and healthcare transactions. She pursued a legal career to improve healthcare outcomes and address the intersection of clinical care and the social determinants of health. She has been recognized as a Health Law Legislative Fellow, Dean’s List honoree, and finalist in the Blakely-Butler Moot Court Competition, and most recently, she was awarded the Lex Frieden Health Law Scholarship.

Erin serves as a law clerk in the Health Care & FDA practice group at Greenberg Traurig, where she supports regulatory and transactional matters involving healthcare and life sciences clients. Her work includes analyzing multi-jurisdictional regulatory frameworks, advising on compliance considerations, and assisting with contractual structuring.

Erin’s experience spans legislative, regulatory, and compliance work. As a Senior Policy Analyst for the Texas Senate Health and Human Services Committee, she drafted and amended legislation addressing public health, healthcare access, and food regulation, and collaborated with stakeholders throughout the legislative process. She also served as a key staffer on legislation requiring nutrition education in medical training and making it a condition of physician license renewal, while advancing accountability for food manufacturers whose products disproportionately harm underserved communities and contribute to adverse health outcomes.

She has also served as a legal intern with MD Anderson Cancer Center and CHRISTUS Health, focusing on institutional compliance, regulatory analysis, and healthcare policy implementation.

Her academic legal research focuses on genetic and biometric data privacy, including ownership, consent, and enforcement frameworks, with an emphasis on emerging regulatory trends and the protection of individual autonomy and privacy interests in genetic data.

Erin is a Duke Health and Well-Being Coach and has volunteered in underserved schools as a garden and culinary teacher. Her prior experience in hospitality and food systems, including managing a micro-farm, informs her interdisciplinary approach to healthcare law and policy.

She brings a practical, integrated approach to healthcare grounded in a strong commitment to advancing equitable health outcomes.