Rachel DeYoung is a J.D.-LL.M. student of the 2025-2026 LL.M. in National and Global Health Law. She is from the United States.
DeYoung is passionate about the right to health and access to health care. She specializes in access to inpatient and residential eating disorder treatment, and runs the top eating disorder treatment review and resource website in the United States. Her research at Georgetown Law has focused on the intersection of poverty law and health law, Black maternal and infant mortality and morbidity crisis in the United States, and the role of the UN, WHO, and IOM in protecting the international right to health for all migrants, regardless of legal status, including refugees and forced international migrants.
In 2022, she worked as a research assistant for Professor Lawrence O. Gostin. Her health-related internships and externships in D.C. include Whitman-Walker Health, HealthHIV, Eating Disorder Coalition, and Health Justice Alliance.
Before enrolling in the LL.M. program, DeYoung received her B.A. degree in Cinema-Television Production from the University of Southern California’s prestigious School of Cinematic Arts. She has a “Trauma-Informed Advocacy Certificate” from Mitchell Hamline Law School in Minnesota. DeYoung is the first joint degree J.D./LL.M. student in National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law. She will also graduate with a certificate in the U.S. Health Law from Georgetown Law.