Professor Seiler came to GWSPH from Capitol Hill after nearly eight years as Counsel to Rep. Henry Waxman, who headed the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce until January 2011. As Counsel, Ms. Seiler helped develop public health legislation, including the prevention and wellness provisions of the House health reform bill. Long interested in reproductive health and HIV, she also served as lead House staffer on the reauthorization of the Ryan White Care Act and staffed hearings and legislative markups on federal mental health and substance abuse programs, health disparities, and other public health topics. Prior to her work on the Hill, Professor Seiler was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. While she was attending Yale Law School, Professor Seiler was a teaching assistant for undergraduate courses, including ?AIDS and Society? in the Department of Biology and ?Women's Health? in the Department of Women's Studies. She has also researched and analyzed laws and policies at the Gay Men's Health Crisis, the Center for Law and Social Policy and the United Nations Latin American Institute in Costa Rica.