A broad range of legal issues and diverse practice settings make health & biomedical law compelling, and require practitioners to employ a wide array of legal knowledge and skills. Health & Biomedical Law is available as an area of focus and concentration. Students interested in pursuing an Area of Focus do not need to enroll and do not receive a certificate upon graduation. Rather, Suffolk Law Faculty identify Areas of Focus to provide guidance to students about courses and extracurricular activities that will help students prepare for legal practice in the subject area. Lawyers practicing in the health & biomedical law field have unique opportunities to work in areas where public policy and the private ordering of transactional arrangements converge. The health & biomedical field concerns the role the law plays in a variety of circumstances, including: promoting the quality of health care, organizing the delivery and financing of health care, assuring adequate control of the cost of health care, promoting access to necessary health care, protecting the rights of individuals who receive care and provide care, conducting research to improve the products, services, and methods for delivering health care, and representing the interests of organizations, institutions, and agencies that provide products and services used in the health care system or that have a role in regulating those activities.