Keegan Warren, JD, LLM

Keegan Warren is the Executive Director of the Institute for Healthcare Access at Texas A&M University. She brings lived experience and a civil justice lens to bear on health and wellness, specializing in non-medical drivers of health and health equity. An attorney and Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) director with over two decades of senior management experience spanning health and human services, she is a national expert on integrating medical and social services through medical-legal partnership (MLP), a care delivery model that leverages legal expertise to advance individual and population health.

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Warren’s research and writing apply an epidemiological perspective to legal interventions as a concrete means for addressing social determinants of health and reducing health disparities. She has worked with community health centers and medical clinics to refine their approach to non-medical drivers of health, and to identify institutional policies that may be inadvertently worsening disparities and raising costs. She has experience helping various stakeholders navigate professional values around confidentiality and privacy to facilitate patient-centered data-sharing across sectors. Her expertise includes policy surveillance on targeted access issues, including treating opioid use disorder in carceral settings.

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Warren is a veteran of the Army National Guard and a member of the Order of St. Joan of Arc, the highest civilian award given by the U.S. Army Armor and Cavalry Associations. She served on the National Academy of Medicine’s (NAM’s) Committee on Integrating Social Care, recently completed service as an NAM Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine Scholar, and currently is serving a three-year term on the NAM Board on Health Care Services. She is a former adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law and McCombs School of Business, and a lecturer at its School of Design and Creative Technologies.

Warren earned her Master of Laws in Health Law and Policy from Southern Illinois University, her Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Texas at Austin, and her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish, international relations, and Latin American studies from the University of Arkansas.

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In her spare time, she rows crew competitively and hangs out with her undergraduate twin daughters and husband, Patrick.