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Project A3: Policy, Ethics, and Law

Project B2: Assessment and Recommendation for Standardization of MOUs for Enhanced Health System Integration

James G. Hodge, Jr., J.D., LL.M., is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he teaches Health Information Privacy Law and Policy, Public Health and the Law, and Bioethics and the Law. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center; Executive Director of the Center for Law and the Public's Health at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities; Core Faculty, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics; and a faculty member of the JHU Information Security Institute. Through his scholarly and applied work, Professor Hodge delves deeply into multiple areas of public health law, ethics, and human rights. The recipient of the 2006 Henrik L. Blum Award for Excellence in Health Policy from the American Public Health Association, he has drafted (with others) several public health law reform initiatives, including the Model State Public Health Information Privacy Act (MSPHPA), the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA), the Turning Point Model State Public Health Act (Turning Point Act), and the Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act (UEVHPA). He is a national expert on public health legal preparedness, for which he consults with multiple federal agencies (e.g., DHS, DHHS, HRSA, CDC, AHRQ), state and local governments, and private sector organizations.

His diverse, funded projects include work on (1) the legal framework underlying the use of volunteer health professionals during emergencies; (2) the legal routes to school closure and other public health interventions in response to pandemic influenza, (3) historical and legal bases underlying school vaccination programs, (4) international tobacco policy for the World Health Organization's Tobacco Free Initiative, (5) legal and ethical distinctions between public health practice and research; and (6) public health law case studies in numerous states. Additional areas of research include global health law and policy, new federalism, health information privacy, and HIV/AIDS.