James G. Hodge, Jr., J.D., LL.M., is Associate Public Health Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he explores issues in public health law, health policy, privacy, bioethics, human rights, and genetics law and policy. His academic teaching at Johns Hopkins includes coursework on health information privacy, bioethics and the law, international human rights and health, and public health ethics. He is the Executive Director for the Center for the Law and the Public's Health, and a member of the Steering Committee for the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins. Professor Hodge is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center where he has lectured in constitutional law, public health law, bioethics, international human rights, genetics law and policy, and health law. Among his funded projects is scholarly and applied work on (1) distinctions between public health practice and research, (2) federal and state genetics laws and policies as part of a multi-year NIH-funded project, (3) historical and legal bases underlying school vaccination programs, (4) international tobacco policy for the World Health Organization's Tobacco Free Initiative, and (5) public health law case studies in Alaska, New Hampshire, Nebraska, Montana, Virginia, and Oregon. He is a national expert on health information privacy law and ethics, and has advised DHHS, FDA, OHRP, CSTE, APHL, and other entities on privacy issues. He is a principal advisor to CDC's newly-established health information privacy office. Professor Hodge has drafted (with others) several public health law reform initiatives, including the Model State Public Health Information Privacy Act (MSPHPA), the Turning Point Model State Public Health Act, and the Center's Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA). Additional areas of research include new federalism, genetic privacy and anti-discrimination, partner notification, legal approaches to bioethics, the human right to health, and numerous additional areas in public health law. His numerous publications include articles in JAMA, American Journal of Public Health, Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, MMWR, ABA Jurimetrics, Notre Dame J. of L., Ethics, and Pub. Poly., Duke J. of Gender and the Law, U. Minn. L. Rev., and dozens of other publications and book chapters. Professor Hodge speaks extensively at national and regional conferences and before legislative and policy-making bodies on these and other health topics. He is a peer reviewer for JAMA, Health Affairs, Milbank Quarterly, Encyclopedia of Ethics, Legal and Policy Issues in Biotechnology, AIDS Law and Policy, and the Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics. |
