CuraLex — About

The problem

U.S. legislatures introduce over 100,000 bills a year. Thousands of them shape healthcare. They're spread across 50 states, DC, and Congress, each with its own website, format, and schedule. If you want a complete picture, you have to check them all yourself.

The people who most need this information (clinicians, researchers, patients, advocates, policymakers) are also the people with the least time to go looking for it.

What CuraLex does

We pull health legislation from every U.S. jurisdiction, classify each bill by domain, policy focus, funding relationship, and status, and make it all searchable. What used to take months of manual tracking takes seconds.

We don't claim to tell you what's good policy. We give you the data so you can figure that out.

Where we're headed

We started with trauma and emergency services. Maternal health, mental health, substance use, and health equity are next. Same approach for each: collect everything, classify it, and make it available to anyone who needs it.

The Team

Who we are

Dr. Joseph Sakran

MD, MPH, MPA · Johns Hopkins

Trauma surgeon, Director of Emergency General Surgery, and Associate Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins. A survivor of gun violence whose interest in medicine began after a stray bullet nearly killed him during his senior year of high school, Dr. Sakran has dedicated his career to the intersection of clinical care and policy. He founded This is Our Lane, a coalition of medical professionals working on firearm injury prevention, and spent a year as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow in the U.S. Senate. He is a Presidential Leadership Scholar and has built surgical programs internationally across Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic and CNN, and he has testified before Congress.

Rahul Gorijavolu

MD/MSE Candidate · Johns Hopkins & MIT

MD/MSE candidate at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and researcher with MIT Critical Data. His work covers responsible AI governance, algorithmic bias, health policy, and medical education, with publications in JAMA Surgery, The Lancet, and eLife. He comes from a public health and epidemiology background. Rahul has contributed to health-system AI oversight infrastructure at Johns Hopkins and is actively involved with the Council of Medical Specialty Societies in multi-society AI governance efforts.