November 2004  Volume 2   Number 2

Thoughtleaders

…a series of interviews with the people who are
shaping our responses to infectious diseases
and to the marginalized affected by these
diseases.


Gordon Nary interviews Lawrence O. Gostin 

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Gordon Nary interviews Lawrence O. Gostin, JD,
LLD (Hon)
on his book,
The AIDS Pandemic:
Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations
 

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 “Promoting Public Health Through
Law”) ( http://www.publichealthlaw.net )

He is also the Co-Director of the Georgetown/Johns Hopkins
Program on Law and Public Health. Professor Gostin is Faculty
Affiliate for the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the Steering and
Executive Committees of the Institute for Health Care Research
and Policy of Georgetown. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre
for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University. Professor Gostin has
lead major law reform initiatives for the US Department of Health
and Human Services .