ABOUT Louis Brown

Louis has served as the Executive Director of Christ Medicus Foundation since 2019. He leads CMF’s overall efforts to advance medical conscience and religious freedom rights and to reclaim health care for the culture of life by offering pro-life health and wellness programs to individuals, families, and Catholic employers nationwide.

An attorney for over 15 years, Louis received his law degree from Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C. and began his career in private law practice at a Midwest law firm. He later became a Congressional staffer on Capitol Hill where he served as legislative counsel for a U.S. Congressman which included serving as the Congressman’s advisor on federal health care law and policy. He also served as the Congressman’s primary liaison to the U.S. House Judiciary Committee where he provided legislative counsel to the Congressman on numerous Judiciary Committee issues including criminal justice, civil rights, and oversight of the Department of Justice. Louis first joined CMF in 2014 to help launch its pro-life health option in partnership with a Christian health sharing ministry.

In 2017, Louis joined the Trump Administration as a political appointee at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where he served in the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and eventually became the Principal Advisor for Civil Rights to the OCR Director. Under the leadership of the OCR Director, Louis worked to enforce civil rights in health care nationally. Louis also supported the OCR Director’s initiatives to defend religious freedom and conscience rights.

Louis returned to CMF as executive director in 2019. He works to defend religious freedom, medical conscience rights, and human dignity and to build the culture of life in health care through expanding CMF’s Catholic health and wellness services.

He sits on the board of directors of two Catholic pro-life health care entities. He is a co-founder and board member of the Catholic Health Care Leadership Alliance, a new organization providing national Catholic leadership for Catholic health care from an integrated Christ-centered perspective. In 2021 and 2024, Louis served as a law lecturer at Catholic University Columbus School of Law where he taught a law course on human dignity and religious freedom in health care. He has published opinion pieces in First Things, the Hill, Public Discourse, and National Review (co-authored). He serves as one of the authors for the Washington Insider column for National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly. Louis has been interviewed in various media outlets on pro-life health care, religious freedom, civil rights in health care, and the federal law and policy that shapes the American health care system. He is inspired by St. John Paull’s call to build a civilization of love and justice.
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