Public health law and ethics; health law and ethics; AIDS and the law.

Lawrence Gostin is an internationally recognized scholar in law and public health. He is Professor of Law at Georgetown University; Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University; and the Director of the Center for Law & the Public's Health at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities (CDC Collaborating Center APromoting Public Health Through Law"). (http://www.publichealthlaw.net). He is Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University.

Professor Gostin is an elected lifetime Member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences (IOM/NAS). For the IOM/NAS, he serves on the Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, the Institutional Review Board, and three expert study committees, including the Committee on Assuring the Health of the Public in the 21st Century. He is also an elected lifetime Fellow of the Hastings Center. He is appointed by the Secretary for Health and Human Services to serve on the Advisory Council of the Office of AIDS Research, National Institutes of Health. Professor Gostin also consults for the World Health Organization, UNAIDS, and the Council of International Organizations for Medical Sciences.

Professor Gostin is the Health Law and Ethics Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). He is also on the editorial board of scholarly journals.

Professor Gostin has lead major law reform initiatives for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (The Model State Public Health Information Privacy Law) and a consortium of states (The "Turning Point" Public Health Statute Modernization Project to draft a Model Public Health Law). In the wake of September 11th, 2001, The Center for Law and the Public's Health drafted of the Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA) to combat bioterrorism and other emerging health threats.

Professor Gostin was a member of the President's Task Force on National Health Care Reform. His principal areas of work on the President's Task Force were on the ethical foundations of the new health care system, public health, and privacy (chair).

Professor Gostin was formerly Executive Director of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics and adjunct Professor of Law and Public Health at Harvard University. In the United Kingdom, Professor Gostin was the Chief Executive of the National Council for Civil Liberties, Legal Director of the National Association of Mental Health, and faculty member of Oxford University. Professor Gostin received the Rosemary Delbridge Memorial Award from the National Consumer Council (U.K.) for the person "who has most influenced Parliament and government to act for the welfare of society." He also received the Key to Tohoko University (Japan) for distinguished contributions to human rights in mental health.

Professor Gostin's latest books are both published by the University of California Press and the Milbank Memorial Fund: Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (2000) and Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader (2002).

Books

LAWRENCE O. GOSTIN, THE AIDS PANDEMIC: COMPLACENCY, INJUSTICE, AND UNFULFILLED EXPECTATIONS (University of North Carolina Press, Forthcoming 2003) (Foreword by the Hon. Michael Kirby, Supreme Court Justice of Australia).

STANLEY S. HERR, LAWRENCE O. GOSTIN, HAROLD HONGJU KOH, EDS., THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF PERSONS WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES: DIFFERENT BUT EQUAL (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming 2003) (Foreword by Mary Robinson, Former Prime Minister of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights).

LAWRENCE O. GOSTIN, PUBLIC HEALTH LAW AND ETHICS: A READER (University of California Press and Milbank Memorial Fund, 2002).

LAWRENCE O. GOSTIN, PUBLIC HEALTH LAW: POWER, DUTY, RESTRAINT (University of California Press and Milbank Memorial Fund, 2000).

Articles

Lawrence O. Gostin, When Terrorism Threatens Health: How Far are Limitations on Personal and Economic Liberties Justified? FLORIDA LAW REVIEW (Forthcoming 2003: Distinguished Dunwoody Lecture).

Lawrence O. Gostin & M. Gregg Bloche, The Politics of Public Health: A Reply to Richard Epstein, 46 (Suppl.) PERSPECTIVES IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE (Forthcoming 2003).

Lawrence O. Gostin, Public Health Law in an Age of Terrorism: Rethinking Individual Rights and Common Goods, 21 HEALTH AFFAIRS 79-93 (2002).

Lawrence O. Gostin & James G. Hodge, Jr., Personal Privacy and Common Goods: A Framework for Balancing Under the National Health Information Privacy Rule, 86 MINNESOTA LAW REVIEW 1439-1479 (2002).

Lawrence O. Gostin, Jason W. Sapsin, Stephen P. Teret, Scott Burris, Julie Samia Mair, James G. Hodge, Jr., Jon S. Vernick, The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: Planning and Response to Bioterrorism and Naturally Occurring Infectious Diseases, 288 JAMA 622-628 (2002).

Lawrence O. Gostin, Commentary: Public Health and Civil Liberties in an Age of Bioterrorism, 21 CRIMINAL JUSTICE ETHICS 2, 74-76 (Summer/Fall 2002).

Lawrence O. Gostin, Conceptualizing the Field After September 11th: Foreword to a Symposium on Public Health Law, 90 KENTUCKY LAW JOURNAL 791-809 (2002).

James G. Hodge, Jr. & Lawrence O. Gostin, School Vaccination Requirements: Historical, Social, and Legal Perspectives, 90 KENTUCKY LAW JOURNAL 831-890 (2002).

Lawrence O. Gostin, AIDS in Africa Among Women and Infants: A Human Rights Framework, 32 HASTINGS CENTER REPORT 9-10 (September-October 2002).

Lawrence O. Gostin, Law and Ethics in a Public Health Emergency, 32 HASTINGS CENTER REPORT 9-11 (March-April 2002).

Matthew K. Wynia & Lawrence Gostin, The Bioterrorist Threat and Access to Health Care, 296 Science 1613 (May 31, 2002).

Lawrence O. Gostin, James G. Hodge Jr., Lauren Marks, The Nationalization of Health Information Privacy Protections, 37 TORT & INSURANCE LAW JOURNAL 1113-38 (2002).

Ronald Bayer, Lawrence O. Gostin, Gail H. Javitt, Allan A. Brandt, Tobacco Advertising in the United States: A Proposal for a Constitutionally Acceptable Form of Regulation, 287 JAMA 2990-2995 (2002).

Lawrence O. Gostin, Public Health Law: A Renaissance, 30 JOURNAL OF LAW, MED & ETHICS 136-143 (2002).

James F. Childress, Ruth R. Faden, Ruth D. Gaare, Lawrence O. Gostin, Jeffrey Kahn, Richard J. Bonnie, Nancy E. Kass, Anna C. Mastroianni, Jonathan D. Moreno, Phillip Nieburg, Public Health Ethics: Mapping the Terrain, 30 JOURNAL OF LAW, MED & ETHICS 170-178 (2002).

Lawrence O. Gostin, James G. Hodge, Jr., Mira S. Burghardt, Balancing Communal Goods and Personal Privacy Under a National Health Information Privacy Rule, 46 ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL 5-35 (2002).

Lawrence O. Gostin & Gail H. Javitt, Health Promotion and the First Amendment: Government Control of the Informational Environment, 79 MILBANK QUARTERLY 547-578 (2001).

Lawrence O. Gostin, Public Health Law Reform, 91 AMERICAN J. PUBLIC HEALTH 1365-1368 (2001).

Lawrence O. Gostin, Public Health, Ethics, and Human Rights: A Tribute to the Late Jonathan Mann, 29 JOURNAL OF LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS 121-130 (2001).

Lawrence O. Gostin, A Vision of Health and Human Rights for the 21st Century: A Continuing Discussion with Stephen P. Marks, 29 JOURNAL OF LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS 139-140 (2001).

Lawrence O. Gostin, James G. Hodge Jr., Ronald O. Valdiserri, Informational Privacy and the Public=s Health, 91 AMERICAN J. PUBLIC HEALTH 1388-1392 (2001).

Lawrence O. Gostin, National Health Information Privacy: Regulations Under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, 285 JAMA 3015-3021 (2001).

Lawrence O. Gostin, The Rights of Pregnant Women: The Supreme Court and Drug Testing, 31 HASTINGS CENTER REPORT 8-9 (Sept./Oct. 2001).

Lawrence O. Gostin, Beyond Moral Claims: A Human Rights Approach in Mental Health, 10 CAMBRIDGE QUART. OF HEALTH CARE ETHICS 264-274 (2001).

Lawrence O. Gostin, The Right to Health: A Right to the AHighest Attainable Standard of Health,@ 31 HASTINGS CENTER REPORT 29-30 (March/April 2001).

Lawrence O. Gostin, Public Health Theory and Practice in the Constitutional Design, 11 HEALTH MATRIX: JOURNAL OF LAW-MEDICINE 265-326 (2001).

Lawrence O. Gostin, Health Information: Reconciling Personal Privacy with the Public Good of Human Health, 9 HEALTH CARE ANALYSIS 321-335 (2001).

Joseph Barbera, Anthony Macintyre, Larry Gostin, Tom Inglesby, Tara O=Toole, Craig DeAtley, Kevin Tonat, Marci Layton, Large-Scale Quarantine Following Biological Terrorism in the United States: Scientific Examination, Logistic and Legal Limits, and Possible Consequences, 286 JAMA 2711-2717 (2001).

Laura M. Beskow, Wylie Burke, Jon F. Merz, Patricia A. Barr, Sharon Terry, Victor B. Penchaszadeh, Lawrence O. Gostin, Mart Gwinn, Muin J. Khoury, Informed Consent for Population-Based Research Involving Genetics, 286 JAMA 2315-2312 (2001).

Lawrence O. Gostin, A Proposed National Policy on Health Care Workers Living with HIV/AIDS and Other Blood-Borne Pathogens, 284 JAMA 1965-1970 (2000).

Lawrence O. Gostin, Public Health Law in a New Century: Part I: Law as a Tool to Advance the Community=s Health, 283 JAMA 2837-2841 (2000).

Lawrence O. Gostin, Public Health Law in a New Century: Part II: Public Health Powers and Duties, 283 JAMA 2979-2984 (2000).

Lawrence O. Gostin, Public Health Law in a New Century: Part III: Public Health Regulation: A Systematic Evaluation, 283 JAMA 3118-3122 (2000).

Lawrence O. Gostin, Human Rights of Persons With Mental Disabilities: The European Convention of Human Rights, 23 INT=L. J. LAW & PSYCHIATRY 125-159 (2000).

Lawrence O. Gostin, Zita Lazzarini, Verla S. Neslund, Michael T. Osterholm, Water Quality Laws and Waterborne Diseases: Cryptosporidium and Other Emerging Pathogens, 90(6) AM. J. PUB. HEALTH 847-853 (2000).

Lawrence O. Gostin, A Public Health Approach to Reducing Error: Medical Malpractice as a Barrier (Editorial), 283(13) J.A.M.A. 1742-43 (2000).

David W. Webber & Lawrence O. Gostin, Discrimination Based on HIV/AIDS and Other Health Conditions: ADisability as Defined Under Federal and State Law, 3 J. HEALTH CARE LAW & POLICY 266-329 (2000).

Lawrence O. Gostin, Managed Care, Conflicts of Interest, and Quality, 30(5) HASTINGS CENTER REPORT 27-28 (Sept-Oct 2000).

Lawrence O. Gostin, The Supreme Court, Health Policy, and New Federalism, 30(2) HASTINGS CENTER REPORT 26-27 (2000).