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Of Counsel
Adolescent Health
Primary Office: Oakland, CA
Email: cmacfarlane(at)youthlaw.org
Phone: (510) 835-8098
Fax: (510) 835-8099
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Christiana Geffen Macfarlane is a volunteer attorney at NCYL working with Senior Attorney Rebecca Gudeman on adolescent health projects. Specifically, Christiana helps develop policies to increase youth’s access to health care and improve cooperation among agencies that serve high-risk children, including children in foster care and the juvenile justice system.
Christiana attended Boston University School of Law and in 2008 earned a Masters in Public Health from UC Berkeley. While at UC Berkeley, Christiana worked with Mary Kreger, a senior research associate at the UC San Francisco Institute for Health Policy Studies on a project studying asthma in California school children. Christiana’s previous career in health care law includes work as a contract attorney for the California Medical Association; a Legislative Consultant for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan; and as a Compliance Leader for The Permanente Medical Group in Oakland. Her work at Kaiser included adolescent consent and privacy in health care, a focus of NCYL’s work.
Christiana is admitted to the Bar in California, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. She received her undergraduate degree in biology from Brown University. Outside of work, she sings (as does her husband) with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus.
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