Terry McGovern

Terry McGovern, JD, is the Harriet and Robert H. Heilbrunn Professor and Chair Population and Family Health at the Columbia University Medical Center. She has worked in health and human rights for over 30 years. She founded the HIV Law Project in 1989, where she successfully litigated numerous cases against the federal, state and local governments including S.P. v. Sullivan which forced the Social Security Administration to expand HIV-related disability criteria so that women and low income individuals can qualify for Medicaid and social security.