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Project A3: Policy, Ethics, and Law

Mr. Stephen P. Teret is Professor of Health Policy and Management and Director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Law and the Public’s Health. Professor Teret holds joint faculty appointments in Pediatrics and in Emergency Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and is Adjunct Professor of Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center.

Professor Teret has worked as a poverty lawyer and a trial lawyer in New York. Since 1979, he has been a full-time faculty member at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. His work includes research, teaching and public service in the areas of injury prevention and health law. Professor Teret's work has also focused on the understanding and prevention of violence, with an emphasis on gun policy.

Professor Teret is the author of many scholarly articles and books on the subjects of injury epidemiology and prevention, and public health law. He is a frequent lecturer at major universities throughout the country, and has served as a consultant to the President of the United States, the Attorney General, the United States Congress, federal agencies, and state legislatures. He is the recipient of distinguished career awards from the American Public Health Association and the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, as well as teaching awards from the students of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health.