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Lawrence O. Gostin CV LAWRENCE O. GOSTIN Curriculum Vitae Phone: +1 202 662-9373 Georgetown University Law Center Email: [email protected] 600 New Jersey Ave., NW Washington, DC 20001 WEBSITES INTERNET RESOURCES Autobiographical Article: From a Civil Libertarian to a Sanitarian, 34 J. LAW & SOCIETY 594- 616 (Dec 2007) The Lancet Profile: Lawrence Gostin: Legal Activist in the Cause of Global Health, 386 THE LANCET 2133 (Nov 28, 2015). Faculty Profile O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law: Global Health & Human Rights Database, in partnership with the WHO and Lawyers’ Collective of India. O’Neill Institute, Prof. Gostin’s Health Tips Georgetown Law Faculty Profile SCHOLARLY PRODUCTIVITY AND IMPACT A systematic empirical analysis of legal scholarship, independent researchers ranked Prof. Gostin 1st in the nation in productivity among all law professors, and 11th in impact and influence. In 2017, researchers ranked Professor Gostin 1st in the nation in citations for health law. Prof. Gostin is also ranked first among health law professors on Google Scholar and on West Law (2018). He is in the top 10% worldwide for downloads on SSRN. MAJOR GLOBAL HEALTH CAMPAIGNS THE JOINT ACTION AND LEARNING INITIATIVE: TOWARDS A FRAMEWORK CONVENTION ON GLOBAL HEALTH In 2008, at the founding of the O’Neill Institute, Prof. Gostin proposed a Framework Convention on Global Health founded on the right to health, published in the Georgetown Law Journal. A decade later, in 2018, civil society organizations from every region of the world launched the Framework Convention on Global Health Alliance. The groundwork for the Alliance had been laid by the Joint Action and Learning Initiative on National and Global Responsibilities for Health and the Platform for an FCGH. The World Health Report 2010 featured the FCGH, and the Global Health Governance journal featured a FCGH symposium in 2016. Stakeholder meetings have been held in Oslo, Berlin, Johannesburg, Delhi, Bellagio, Kampala, and Dhaka, among others. In 2011, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon endorsed the FCGH: “Let the AIDS response be a beacon of global solidarity for health as a human right and set the stage for a future United Nations Framework Convention on Global Health.” UNAIDS Director, Michel Sidibé urged human rights advocates to ”Join the FCGH movement for social justice.” GLOBAL COMMISSIONS ON THE 2015 WEST AFRICA EBOLA EPIDEMIC CURRICULUM VITAE, LAWRENCE O. GOSTIN, P. 2 Professor Gostin served three global commissions on the lessons learned from the 2015 West Africa Ebola epidemic: The Commission on a Global Health Risk Framework (National Academy of Medicine); Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola (Harvard/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine); and the United Nations High-Level Panel on Global Response to Health Crises. EMPLOYMENT • University Professor (Georgetown University’s • Professor of Global Health Law in the Faculty of highest academic rank conferred by the Law, University of Sydney University President) • Visiting Professor and the Claude Leon • Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Foundation Distinguished Scholar, The Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Center (2007-2012) South Africa (2011/12) (Academic Honor: Nobel • Faculty Director, Linda D. and Timothy J. Laureate Selection Criteria) O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health • Professor of Law & Public Health, The Johns Law Hopkins University, Bloomberg School of Public • Director, World Health Organization Health, 1997-2013 Collaborating Center on National and Global • Faculty Director, LL.M Program in Global Health Law (the health and human rights global Health Law, Georgetown University database is illustrative of the projects launched by • Faculty Director, LL.M Program in Global the WHO Collaborating Center) Health Law and International Institutions, • National Cancer Advisory Board (Presidential Georgetown Law and The Graduate Institute of Appointment) Geneva • Co-Principal Investigator, FDA Center of • Faculty Affiliate, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Excellence in Regulatory Science and Innovation Georgetown University (CERSI), 2014-17. • Research Fellow, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, • Professor, Department of Microbiology and Faculty of Law, University of Oxford Immunology, Georgetown University School of • Visiting Professor of Public Health Faculty of Medicine Medical Sciences, Oxford University (July 1, • Associate Dean (Research and Academic 2005 – June 30, 2013) Programs) Georgetown University Law Center • Visiting Professor of Global Health and (Responsible for faculty research and International Visiting Fellow, University of scholarship), 2005-2008 Sydney, 2009 • John Carroll Research Professor (2004/05) • Miegunyah Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Georgetown University Law Center University of Melbourne and Senior Fellow, • Director, Center for Law & the Public’s Health at Melbourne Law School, 2009 – 2022. Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities • University of Manchester (Institute for Science, (CDC Collaborating Center) (1995-2010). Ethics and Innovation), Visiting Professorial • Global Health Editor & Legal Correspondent, Fellow, 2011 Journal of the American Medical Association EDUCATION 1971 STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BROCKPORT B.A. (Psychology, Summa Cum Laude) CURRICULUM VITAE, LAWRENCE O. GOSTIN, P. 3 1974 DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW J.D. 1974-75 OXFORD UNIVERSITY AND THE SOCIAL RESEARCH UNIT, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON Fulbright Fellow, United Kingdom, in Psychiatry and Law 1994 STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK (system-wide), Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) EDUCATION (CONTINUED) 2006 CARDIFF UNIVERSITY, WALES Honorary Fellow (University’s highest honor for “international distinction and scholarship in law and public health”) 2007 FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY FOR PUBLIC HEALTH (FSPH) 2012 THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) Delivered Commencement Address to the Sydney Law Class of 2012 PAST POSITIONS • Visiting Professor, Di Tella School of Law, • Vice Chair, Committee on the Use of Human Buenos Aires (2017) Subjects in Research Harvard School of Public • Visiting Scholar, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies Health (1991-93) Oxford University (2002) • Visiting Fellow, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies • Member, President’s Task Force on National Wolfson College, Oxford University (Summer, Health Care Reform Chair, Health Information 1989) Privacy Chair, Public Health (1993-94) • Legislative Counsel, Labor and Human • Executive Director, American Society of Law, Resources Committee, Edward Kennedy, Medicine & Ethics (1986-1994) Chairman United States Senate (1987-88) • Adjunct Professor of Law & Public Health In the • General Secretary (Chief Executive), National faculty of Public Health, Harvard University Council for Civil Liberties (U.K.) (1983-85) formerly Senior Fellow, Lecturer, and Adjunct • Fellow in Psychiatry and Law, Centre for Associate Professor (1985-94) Criminological Research, Oxford University • Associate Director, International Collaborating (1982-83) Associate (1983-85) Center on Health Legislation Harvard • Legal Director, MIND (National Association for University/World Health Organization (1988-94) Mental Health) (U.K.) (1975-82) • Lecturer on Law In the Faculty of Law, Harvard Law School (1989-93) PROFESSIONAL AND BAR ASSOCIATIONS • Member New York State Bar Association (1981- • Member Bar of the Council of Europe (European present) Commission and European Court of Human Rights) (1977-present) CURRICULUM VITAE, LAWRENCE O. GOSTIN, P. 4 HONORS/RECOGNITIONS • Rosemary Delbridge Memorial Award from the • The Adam Yarmolinsky Medal conferred by the National Consumer Council (U.K.) for the person National Academy of Sciences for “distinguished “who has most influenced Parliament and service by a Member who, over a significant government to act for the welfare of society” period of time, has contributed in multiple ways (1983). to the mission of the Institute of Medicine.” • Lifetime Elected Member, National Academy of (2006). Medicine, of the National Academies of • Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (formerly the Public Health Law Association presented at Institute of Medicine). the National CDC Public Health Law • Lifetime Elected Fellow, The Hastings Center: Conference: “in recognition of a career devoted “For individuals who have made distinguished to using law to improve the public’s health” contributions to the field of bioethics.” (2006). • Lifetime Elected Member, Council on Foreign • Key to Tohoko University, Japan, for Relations (to provide independent advice to distinguished contributions to human rights in governments on foreign policy). mental health (January 1987). • Lifetime Achievement Award by the American • Public Service Award from the State University Public Health Association (APHA) for a career of New York for distinguished public service and devoted to Public Health Law (2015). professional accomplishment (1991). • Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award, • State University of New York, Hall of Heritage Public Health Association of New York City, for (2005) a for “most outstanding success in his/her extraordinary service to improve the public’s profession and significant contribution to higher health (2014). education or public service.” • Dr. Mary Ann Quaranta Distinguished Public • Jay Healy Health Law Teacher of the Year, Health Law Scholar Award, Bestowed by the conferred by the American Society
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