Dr. Meier's interdisciplinary research, at the intersection of international law, public policy, and public health, examines legal frameworks for global health. Working collaboratively across UNC's Department of Public Policy and Gillings School of Global Public Health, he has written and presented extensively on the development of rights-based public health policy pursuant to state, national, and international law. He received his PhD in Sociomedical Sciences from Columbia University, his JD and LLM in International and Comparative Law from Cornell Law School, and his BA in Biochemistry from Cornell University.