James G. Hodge, Jr., J.D., LL.M., is the director of the Network’s Western Region Office. He is the Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Public Health Law and Policy, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. Through scholarship, teaching, and projects, Professor Hodge delves into multiple areas of health law, public health law, global health law, ethics, and human rights. He has published more than 200 articles in journals of law, medicine, public health and bioethics; 2 books in public health law (including Public Health Law in a Nutshell (3rd ed. 2018); 25 book chapters; dozens of reports; and guest edited 4 symposium issues.
He is listed among the Top 20 Most-Cited Health Law Scholars in Web of Science (2013-2017) and is regularly ranked among the top 3% of all downloaded authors in the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). The recipient of the 2006 Henrik L. Blum Award for Excellence in Health Policy from the American Public Health Association, Professor Hodge has drafted (with others) several public health law reform initiatives including the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act. His diverse, funded projects include work on (1) emergency legal preparedness; (2) health impact assessments; (3) health information privacy; and (4) vaccination laws and policies.
This Primer outlines legal, policy and practical guidance related to the COVID-19 outbreak and public health emergency responses
This webinar will focus on emerging constitutional and other legal and policy challenges to state and local efforts to re-open their economies despite concerns of public health officials and health care practitioners over the potential for significant impacts on communal health.
This webinar will focus on the key emerging constitutional challenges to ongoing public health responses in real-time based on actual litigation, policymaker objections, advocacy positions, or other sources.
Overview As numbers of confirmed COVID-19 cases soar, key U.S. jurisdictions are experiencing overwhelming surge from patients seeking testing and requiring hospitalization. Researchers estimate that…
This overview summarizes several key public health appropriations and policy provisions included in the Stimulus Relief bill.
This Overview provides brief explanations of emergency declarations in response to the COVID-19 pandemic at federal, state/tribal, and local levels.
This real-time session centers on the legal and policy challenges faced by counties, cities, and other localities, as well as their departments of health and emergency management, across an array of public health powers and issues.
This FAQ addresses questions of liability for health care providers when shifting to crisis operations during emergencies like the current coronavirus pandemic.
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This real-time session will focus on an array of social distancing legal responses among federal, state, and local authorities, notably quarantine, isolation, school and other closures, and proposed “lockdowns.”
