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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 

EDUCATION 

Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law 

(Associate Professor, 1994-98; Assistant Professor, 1991-94) 

Associate Director, Center for Law and the Public’s Health, and Senior Associate, Johns 

Hopkins School of Public Health 2000- 

Counsel, AIDS and Civil Liberties Project, American Civil Liberties Union of 

Pennsylvania, 1988-1991 

Lecturer in Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1989 - 1990 

Law Clerk, Judge Dolores K. Sloviter, United States Court of 

Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1987 - 1988 

Writer and Theatrical Producer, 1981-4 

YALE LAW SCHOOL: J.D., 1987 

Articles Editor, Yale Law Journal 

Editor-in-Chief, Yale AIDS/Law Project 

Editor, Yale Law and Policy Review 

Judge William E. Miller Prize, 1986 (outstanding paper on a subject 

related to the Bill of Rights) 

Judge William E. Miller Prize, Honorable Mention, 1987 

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS: B.A. Summa Cum Laude, History, 1980 

Phi Beta Kappa 

J. Walter Goldstein Prize (outstanding honors thesis in History) 

Student Member, Board of Trustees 

George Mylonas Fellowship (full tuition and stipend award for academic merit) 

Year Abroad, University of Tübingen, West Germany 

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BOOKS, BOOK CHAPTERS & REPORTS 


The Employment Discrimination Provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act: 

Implementation and Impact, in INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE, THE FUTURE OF 

DISABILITY IN AMERICA (Marilyn Field & Alan Jette eds., National Academies 

Press, 2007) (with Moss) 

HPTN 058: Rapid Policy Assessment for China and Thailand (2007) available at 

http://ssrn.com/abstract=979957 (with Zhang et al.) 

The "Risk Environment" for Commercial Sex Work in China: Considering the Role of 

Law and Law Enforcement Practices, in GENDER POLICY AND HIV IN CHINA 

(Dudley Poston and Joseph Tucker eds.) (Springer, forthcoming 2008)(with Xia) 

[EMERGING ISSUES IN CHINESE HEALTH LAW] (Peking University Press, 2005) (editor, 

with Shen Weixing) 

From Security to Health, in DEMOCRACY AND THE GOVERNANCE OF SECURITY (Jennifer 

Wood and Benoit Dupont eds., Cambridge, 2005) 

Doing A Lot (But Not Enough) with a Little: An Empirical Picture of the EEOC's Charge 

Processing System, in EEOC LITIGATION AND CHARGE RESOLUTION (Donald 

Livingston ed., BNA, 2005) (with Moss et al.) 

Syringe Access Law in the United States: A State of the Art Assessment of Law and 

Policy (A Report of the Center for Law and the Public’s Health at Georgetown 

and Johns Hopkins Universities, prepared for the Substance Abuse Policy 

Research Program, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2002), available at 

http://www.publichealthlaw.net/Research/PDF/syringe.pdf. 

The Impact of HIV/AIDS on the Development of Public Health Law, in DAWNING 

ANSWERS: HOW THE HIV/AIDS EPIDEMIC HAS HELPED TO STRENGTHEN PUBLIC 

HEALTH (Ronald O. Valdiserri ed., Oxford, 2003) (with Gostin) 

Genetic Screening from a Public Health Perspective: Three "Ethical" Principles, in 

A COMPANION TO GENETHICS (Justine Burley and John Harris eds., Blackwell, 

2002) (with Gostin) 

Deregulation of Hypodermic Needles and Syringes as a Public Health Measure: A 

Report on Emerging Policy and Law in the United States (A Report of the AIDS 

Coordinating Committee, American Bar Association, 2001) (with Ng) (reprinted 

at 12 GEORGE MASON U. CIV. R. L.J. 69 (2001)) 

OSHA in a Health Care Context, in INSTITUTE OF MEDICINE, TUBERCULOSIS IN THE 

WORKPLACE (Marilyn Field ed., National Academies Press, 2001) (with Crabtree) 

Clinical Decision Making in the Shadow of Law, in ETHICAL ISSUES IN HIV-RELATED 

PSYCHOTHERAPY (John Anderson & Robert Barret eds, APA Books, 2001) 

A Decision Model for Ethical Dilemmas in HIV-related Psychotherapy and its 

Application in the Case of Jerry, in ETHICAL ISSUES IN HIV-RELATED 

PSYCHOTHERAPY (with Barret & Kitchener) 

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[Nine case studies], in ETHICAL ISSUES IN HIV-RELATED 

PSYCHOTHERAPY (various co-authors) 

A Road Map for ADA Title I Research, in EMPLOYMENT, DISABILITY, AND THE 

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT: ISSUES IN LAW, PUBLIC POLICY, AND 

RESEARCH (Peter Blanck ed., Northwestern University Press, 2000) (with Moss) 

Public Health Surveillance of Genetic Information: Ethical and Legal Responses to 

ST 

Social Risk, in GENETICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH IN THE 21 CENTURY: USING 

GENETIC INFORMATION TO IMPROVE HEALTH AND PREVENT DISEASE (Muin 

Khoury, Wylie Burke and Elizabeth Thomson eds., Oxford University Press, 

2000) (with Gostin & Tress) 

Improving State Law to Prevent and Treat Infectious Disease (Milbank Memorial 

Fund Report, 1998) (with Gostin, Lazzarini & Maguire) 

Genetic Screening from a Public Health Perspective: Some Lessons from the HIV 

Experience, in GENETIC SECRETS: PRIVACY, CONFIDENTIALITY, AND NEW 

GENETIC TECHNOLOGY (Mark Rothstein ed., Yale University Press, 1998) (with 

Gostin) 

Law and Ethics and the Decision to Treat, in DENTAL MANAGEMENT OF HIV-INFECTED 

PATIENTS (Michael Glick ed., Quintessence Press 1994) 

AIDS LAW TODAY: A NEW GUIDE FOR THE PUBLIC (Yale University Press, 1993) 

(editor, with Harlon L. Dalton & Judith L. Miller) 

Education to Reduce the Spread of HIV, in AIDS LAW TODAY: A NEW GUIDE FOR THE 

PUBLIC 

Testing, Disclosure and the Right to Privacy, in AIDS LAW TODAY: A NEW GUIDE FOR 

THE PUBLIC 

Torts: Private Lawsuits About HIV, in AIDS LAW TODAY: A NEW GUIDE FOR THE PUBLIC 

(with Hermann) 

AIDS AND THE LAW: A GUIDE FOR THE PUBLIC (Yale University Press, 1987) (editor, 

with Harlon L. Dalton & the Yale AIDS/Law Project) 

A Little Law for Non-lawyers, in AIDS AND THE LAW: A GUIDE FOR THE PUBLIC 

LAW JOURNALS 

Changes in Governance: a Cross-Disciplinary Review of Current Scholarship, 41 AKRON 

L. REV. 1 (2008) (with Shearing and Kempa) 

The Employment Discrimination Provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act: 

Implementation and Impact, __ HOFSTRA J. LABOR & EMPLOY. L. __ 

(forthcoming 2008) (with Moss) 

Do Criminal Laws Influence HIV Risk Behavior? An Empirical Trial, 39 AZ. ST. L. J. 467 

(2007) (with Beletsky et al.) 

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Regulatory Paradox in the Protection of Human Research Subjects: A Review of OHRP 

Enforcement Letters, 101 NORTHWESTERN U. L REV. 687 (2007) (with Welsh) 

Justice Disparities: Does the ADA Enforcement System Treat People with Psychiatric 

Disabilities Fairly? 66 MARYLAND L. REV. 94 (2006) (with Swanson et al.) 

Prevalence and Outcomes of ADA Employment Discrimination Claims in the Federal 

Courts, 29 MENTAL &PHYSICAL DISABILITY LAW REPORTER 303 (2005) (with 

Moss et al.) 

Nodal Governance, 30 AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF LEGAL PHILOSOPHY 30 (2005) (with 

Drahos and Shearing) 

[On the Legislative Framework for AIDS in China], SHANGHAI ACADEMY OF SOCIAL 

SCIENCES JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, No. 12 at 46 (2004) (with Xia) 

(reprinted in [EMERGING ISSUES IN CHINESE HEALTH LAW] (Peking University 

Press 2005) 

Health Law Teaching and Research in Chinese Law Schools: Results of a Pre-SARS 

Survey, 18 TEMPLE INT’L & COMP. LAW L.J. 77 (2004) (with Wang et al.) 

(reprinted in Chinese at 66 NORTHWEST LAW SCHOOL JOURNAL OF POLITICAL & 

LEGAL EDUCATION RESEARCH 41 (2004)) 

Governance, Microgovernance and Health, 77 TEMPLE LAW REVIEW 335 (2004) 

SARS and International Legal Preparedness, 77 TEMPLE LAW REVIEW 155 (2004) (with 

Sapsin et al.) 

Applying the Common Rule to Public Health Agencies: Questions and Tentative Answers 

about a Public Health Exemption, 31 J. L., MED. & ETHICS 638 (2003) (with 

Buehler & Lazzarini) 

The Role of State Law in Protecting Human Subjects of Public Health Research and 

Practice, 31 J. L., Med. & Ethics 654 (2003) (with Lazzarini, Stone & Gable) 

Lethal Injections: The Law, Science and Politics of Syringe Access for Injection Drug 

Users, 37 U.S.F. L. REV. 813 (2003) (with Strathdee & Vernick) 

Introduction: Envisioning Health Disparities, 29 AM. J. L. & MED. 151 (2003) 

Introduction: Merging Law, Human Rights and Social Epidemiology, 30 J. L., MED. & 

ETHICS 498 (2002) 

Integrating Law and Social Epidemiology, 30 J. L., MED. & ETHICS 510 (2002) (with 

Kawachi & Sarat) 

Health and the Governance of Security: A Tale of Two Systems, 30 J. L., MED. & ETHICS 

632 (2002) (with Aral & Shearing) 

The Dimensions of Public Health Law Research, 30 J. L., MED. & ETHICS 197 (2002) 

(with Horton et al.) 

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Disease Stigma in Public Health Law and Research, 30 J. L., MED. & ETHICS 179 

(2002) (reprinted in Cook & Ngwena eds., HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS (Ashgate 

2007)) 

Evaluating the Impact of Criminal Laws on HIV Risk Behavior, 30 J. L., MED. & ETHICS 

239 (2002) (with Lazzarini & Bray) 

Other Branches of Science Are Necessary to Form a Lawyer: Teaching Public Health 

Law in Law Schools, 30 J. L., MED. & ETHICS 298 (2002) (with Goodman et al.) 

Unfunded Mandate: An Empirical Study of the Implementation of the 

Americans with Disabilities Act by the Equal Employment Opportunity 

Commission, 50 KANSAS L. REV. 1 (2001) (with Moss et al.) 

Harm Reduction in the Health Care System: The Legality of Prescribing and Dispensing 

Sterile Injection Equipment to Drug Users, 11 HEALTH MATRIX 5 ( 2001) (with 

Lurie & Ng) 

The Genesis of Syringe Prescription to Prevent HIV in Rhode Island, 11 HEALTH MATRIX 

129 (2001) (with Rich et al.) 

Disputing Under the ADA: Answers and Some Questions, 9 TEMPLE POL. & CIV. RIGHTS 

L. REV. 237 (2000)(with Moss et al.) 

The Law and the Public’s Health: A Study of Infectious Disease Law in the United States, 

99 COLUMBIA L. REV. 59 (1999) (with Gostin & Lazzarini) 

Law as a Structural Factor in the Spread of Communicable Disease, 36 HOUSTON L. 

REV. 1755 (2000) 

Syringe Exchange in Pennsylvania: A Legal Analysis, 8 TEMPLE POL. & CIV. RIGHTS L. 

REV. 41 (1998) (with Ferguson & Perez) 

Law and the Social Risk of Health Care: Lessons from HIV Testing, 61 ALBANY L. REV. 

831 (1998) 

Gay Marriage as a Public Health Issue, 7 TEMPLE POL. & CIV. RIGHTS L. REV. 417 

(1998) 

Dental Discrimination Against the HIV-Infected: Empirical Data, Law and Public 

Policy, 13 YALE J. REG. 1 (1996) 

Thoughts on Law and the Public's Health, 22 J. L., MED. & ETHICS 141 (1994) 

Public Health, "AIDS Exceptionalism," and the Law, 27 JOHN MARSHALL L. REV. 251 

(1994) 

Prisons, Law and Public Health: The Case for a Coordinated Response to Epidemic 

Disease Behind Bars, 47 U. MIAMI L. REV. 291 (1992) 

HIV Education and the Law: A Critical Review, 20 LAW, MEDICINE & HEALTH CARE 377 

(1992) 

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AIDS: Should Public Fear Dictate National Public Health Policy, AM. J. ETHICS & 

MED., Fall/Winter 1991, at 5 (with Cooper, Howett, Turkington & Sharrar) 

Rationality Review and the Politics of Public Health, 34 VILLANOVA L. REV. 933 (1989) 

Note, Death and a Rational Justice: A Conversation on the Capital Jurisprudence of 

Justice John Paul Stevens, 97 YALE L. J. 521 (1987) 

Comment, Fear Itself: AIDS, Herpes and Public Health Decisions, 3 YALE L. & POL'Y 

REV. 479 (1985) 

PEER-REVIEWED HEALTH AND SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNALS 

Burris, S., Cameron, E., and Clayton, M. In press. The Criminalization of HIV: Time for 

an Unambiguous Rejection of the Use of Criminal Law to Regulate the Sexual 

Behavior of Those with and at Risk of HIV. JAMA. 

Burris, S. In press. Stigma, Ethics and Policy: A Commentary on Bayer’s ‘‘Stigma and 

the Ethics of Public Health: Not Can We but Should We.’’ Social Science and 

Medicine. 

Burris, S. 2008. Regulatory Innovation in the Governance of Human Subjects Research: 

A Cautionary Tale and Some Modest Proposals. Regulation and Governance 2: 

65-84. 

Miller, C. L., M. Firestone, R. Ramos, S. Burris, M. E. Ramos, P. Case, K. C. Brouwer, 

M. A. Fraga, and S. A. Strathdee. In press. Injecting Drug Users’ Experiences of 

Policing Practices in Two Mexican-U.S. Border Cities: Public Health 

Perspectives. International Journal of Drug Policy. 

Hogg R.S., E.F. Druyts, S. Burris, E. Drucker and S.A. Strathdee. 2008. Years of Life 

Lost to Prison: Racial and Gender Gradients in the United States of America. 

Harm Reduction Journal 5(4): doi:10.1186/1477-7517-1185-1184. 

Beletsky, L., C.S. Davis, E. Anderson and S. Burris. 2008. The Law (and Politics) of 

Safe Injection Facilities in the United States. Am J Public Health 98(2): 231-237. 

Burris, S., T. Hancock, V. Lin, and A. Herzog. 2007. Emerging Strategies for Healthy 

Urban Governance. J. Urban Health 84(Suppl. 1):154-63. 

Harper, S., J. Lynch, S. Burris, and G. D. Smith. 2007. Trends in the Black-White Life 

Expectancy Gap in the United States, 1983-2003. JAMA 297:1224-1232. 

Beletsky, L., R. Ruthazer, G. E. Macalino, J. D. Rich, L. Tan, and S. Burris. 2006. 

Physicians’ Knowledge of and Willingness to Prescribe Naloxone to Reverse 

Accidental Opiate Overdose: Challenges and Opportunities. J Urban Health 

84:126-136. 

Burris, S., and K. Moss. 2006. United States Health Researchers Review Their Ethics 

Review Boards: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Empirical Research on Human 

Research Ethics 1:39-58. 

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Beletsky, L., G. Macalino, and S. Burris. 2005. Attitudes of Police Officers towards 

Syringe Access, Occupational Needle-Sticks, and Drug Use: A Qualitative Study 

of One City Police Department in the United States. International Journal of 

Drug Policy 16:267-274. 

Davis, C., S. Burris, D. Metzger, J. Becher, and K. Lynch. 2005. Effects of an Intensive 

Street-Level Police Intervention on Syringe Exchange Program Utilization: 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Am J Public Health 95:233-236. 

Burris, S., K. M. Blankenship, M. Donoghoe, S. Sherman, J. S. Vernick, P. Case, Z. 

Lazzarini, and S. Koester. 2004. Addressing the "Risk Environment" for Injection 

Drug Users: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Cop. Milbank Quarterly 82:125- 

156. 

Stancliff, S., B. Agins, J. D. Rich, and S. Burris. 2003. Syringe Access for the Prevention 

of Blood Borne Infections among Injection Drug Users. BMC Public Health 3:37. 

Vernick, J. S., S. Burris, and S. A. Strathdee. 2003. Public Opinion about Syringe 

Exchange Programmes in the USA: an Analysis of National Surveys. 

International Journal of Drug Policy 14:431-435. 

Burris, S. 2003. Legal Aspects of Regulating Bathhouses and Sex Clubs: Cases from 

1984 to 1995. J. Homosexuality 44:131-151. 

Taylor, L. E., V. Runarsdottir, A. Zampi, A. Osei, S. Sanford, G. Macalino, M. 

McKenzie, S. Burris, J. D. Gross, S. E. Reinert, and J. D. Rich. 2003. Would You 

Consider Prescribing Syringes to Injection Drug Users? Addiction Medicine 

Conference Survey. J Addict. Dis. 22:67-78. 

Burris, S., J. Welsh, M. Ng, M. Li, and A. Ditzler. 2002. State Syringe and Drug 

Possession Laws Potentially Influencing Safe Syringe Disposal by Injection Drug 

Users. Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association 42:S94-S98. 

Burris, S., J. S. Vernick, A. Ditzler, and S. Strathdee. 2002. The Legality of Selling or 

Giving Syringes to Injection Drug Users. Journal of the American Pharmaceutical 

Association 42:S13-S18. 

Taussig, J. A., B. Junge, S. Burris, T. S. Jones, and C. E. Sterk. 2002. Individual and 

Structural Influences Shaping Pharmacists' Decisions to Sell Syringes to Injection 

Drug Users in Atlanta, Georgia. Journal of the American Pharmaceutical 

Association 42:S40-S45. 

Heimer, R., S. Bray, S. Burris, K. Khoshnood, and K. M. Blankenship. 2002. Structural 

Interventions to Improve Opiate Maintenance. International Journal of Drug 

Policy 13:103-111. 

Gostin, L. O., J. W. Sapsin, S. P. Teret, S. Burris, J. S. Mair, J. G. Hodge, Jr., and J. S. 

Vernick. 2002. The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: Planning for and 

Response to Bioterrorism and Naturally Occurring Infectious Diseases. JAMA 

288:622-628. 

Moss, K., J. Swanson, M. Ullman, and S. Burris. 2002. Mediation of Employment 

Discrimination Disputes Involving Persons with Psychiatric Disabilities. 

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Psychiatric Services 53:988-994. 


Burris, S., B. Edlin, and J. Norland. 2001. Legal Aspects of Providing Naloxone to 

Heroin Users in the United States. International Journal of Drug Policy 12:237- 

248. 

Rich, J. D., G. E. Macalino, M. McKenzie, L. E. Taylor, and S. Burris. 2001. Syringe 

Prescription to Prevent HIV Infection in Rhode Island: a Case Study. Am J Public 

Health 91:699-700. 

Rich, J. D., T. L. Whitlock, C. W. Towe, M. McKenzie, V. Runarsdottir, M. Aboagye- 

Kumi, and S. Burris. 2001. Prescribing Syringes to Prevent HIV: a Survey of 

Infectious Disease and Addiction Medicine Physicians in Rhode Island. Substance 

Use & Misuse 36:535-550. 

Ullman, M. D., M. C. Johnsen, K. Moss, and S. Burris. 2001. The EEOC Charge Priority 

Policy and Claimants with Psychiatric Disabilities. Psychiatric Services 52:644- 

649. 

Burris, S. 2000. Surveillance, Social Risk, and Symbolism: Framing the Analysis for 

Research and Policy. Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes 25 

Suppl 2:S120-127. 

Burris, S., P. Lurie, D. Abrahamson, and J. D. Rich. 2000. Physician Prescribing of 

Sterile Injection Equipment to Prevent HIV Infection: Time for Action. Annals of 

Internal Medicine 133:218-226. 

Taussig, J. A., B. Weinstein, S. Burris, and T. S. Jones. 2000. Syringe Laws and 

Pharmacy Regulations Are Structural Constraints on HIV Prevention in the US. 

AIDS 14 Suppl 1:S47-51. 

Moss, K., M. Ullman, B. E. Starrett, S. Burris, and M. C. Johnsen. 1999. Outcomes of 

Employment Discrimination Charges Filed under the Americans with Disabilities 

Act. Psychiatric Services 50:1028-1035. 

Moss, K., M. Ullman, M. C. Johnsen, B. E. Starrett, and S. Burris. 1999. Different Paths 

to Justice: the ADA, Employment, and Administrative Enforcement by the EEOC 

and FEPAs. Behavioral Sciences & the Law 17:29-46. 

Burris, S. 1999. Studying the Legal Management of HIV-Related Stigma. American 

Behavioral Scientist 42:1229-1243. 

Marks, G., S. Burris, and T. A. Peterman. 1999. Reducing Sexual Transmission of HIV 

from Those Who Know They Are Infected: the Need for Personal and Collective 

Responsibility. AIDS 13:297-306. 

Herek, G. M., L. Mitnick, S. Burris, M. Chesney, P. Devine, M. T. Fullilove, R. 

Fullilove, H. C. Gunther, J. Levi, S. Michaels, A. Novick, J. Pryor, M. Snyder, 

and T. Sweeney. 1998. Workshop Report: AIDS and Stigma: a Conceptual 

Framework and Research Agenda. AIDS & Public Policy Journal 13:36-47. 

Burris, S. 1997. Driving the Epidemic Underground? A New Look at Law and the Social 

Risk of HIV Testing. AIDS & Public Policy Journal 12:66-78. 

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Burris, S. 1997. The Invisibility of Public Health: Population-level Measures in a Politics 

of Market Individualism. American Journal of Public Health 87:1607-1610. 

Glick, M., and S. Burris. 1997. The Professional Responsibility for Care. Oral Diseases 

3 Suppl 1:S221-224. 

Burris, S., D. Finucane, H. Gallagher, and J. Grace. 1996. The Legal Strategies Used in 

Operating Syringe Exchange Programs in the United States. Am J Public Health 

86:1161-1166. 

Burris, S. 1996. Legal Considerations in Infectious Diseases and Dentistry. Dental 

Clinics of North America 40:425-435. 

Burris, S. 1996. Human Immunodeficiency Virus-infected Health Care Workers: the 

Restoration of Professional Authority. Archives of Family Medicine 5:102-106. 

PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCE PAPERS (selected) 

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“Policing and Harm Reduction: An Overview,” 19 International Conference on the 

Reduction of Drug-Related Harm, Barcelona, 2008 

“Policy Elements of Community Overdose Prevention,” Addressing the Problem of 

Overdose in Allegheny County: How the Community Can Make a Difference, University 

of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County Department of Human Services, Pittsburgh, 2008 

“The Natural Attorneys of the Poor?”Annual Seminar of the Society of Legal Scholars, 

Birkbeck College, London, 2008 

“Using Law in Grassroots Advocacy,” AIZHIXING Institute of Health Education, 

Beijing, 2008 

“Basic Methods of Health Law Research: Four Ideal Types,” Conference on Health Law 

System and Teaching, Tsinghua University Law School, Beijing, 2008 

“Therapeutic Opioid Access: Solving the Paradox,” 2nd Informal Inter-Country 

Consultation on HIV Prevention and Care, UNODC, Vienna, 2008 

“Regulatory Innovation in the Governance of Human Subjects Research: Some Modest 

Proposals,” Health, Law, Society and Ethics Colloquium Series, Columbia Law School, 

New York, 2008; University of North Carolina Law School, Chapel Hill, 2007; 

Regulation and Governance of Health Care: Alternative, Practices and Visions, 

University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, 2007 

"Models for Implementation of Social Determinants of Health Policy, and 

Recommendations for Practice,” USA Workshop, WHO Commission on Social 

Determinants of Health, New Orleans, 2007 

“Local Innovation in Public Health: Barriers and Opportunities from a Governance 

Perspective,” Vanderbilt University Center for Medicine, Health & Society, Nashville, 

2007 

“IDUs, HIV and the Police: The Importance of Cooperation Between Health and Criminal 

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Justice Agencies,” How Science Speaks to Drug Policy, United Nations Office of Drugs 

and Crime, Rome, 2007 

“Do Criminal Laws Influence HIV Risk Behavior? An Empirical Trial,” Consultation on 

the Criminalization of HIV Transmission, UNAIDS, Geneva, 2007 

“Health Law from America to China,” Tsinghua Law School-CDC Roundtable 

Discussion: Possible Institutional Structure of Chinese Health Law, Beijing, 2007 

“Implementing the Recommendations of the Commission,” 9th Meeting of 

Commissioners, WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health, Beijing, 2007 

“Medically Supervised Injection in the U.S.: Where There’s a Political Will, There’s a 

Legal Way,” Community Safety and Drug User Health: Exploring Safe Injection 

Facilities in San Francisco, Harm Reduction Coalition, San Francisco, 2007 

“IDUs, Harm Reduction and the Police: The Importance of Cooperation Between Health 

and Criminal Justice Agencies,” International Expert Meeting, “HIV and the Police.” 

United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime/UNAIDS, The Hague, 2007 

“From Security to Health,” Institute of Criminology, University of Cape Town Law 

School, Cape Town, South Africa, 2007 

“The Role of RPAR in Global Health Governance,” Training Conference on 

Multisectoral Cooperation in Drug Demand Reduction, AVICENNA Association and 

City of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland, 2007 

“Making HIV Testing Routine: Opportunities and Challenges,” AIDS Science Day 2007, 

Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale University, New Haven, 2007 

“Harm Reduction: Public Health Strategy, Social Movement, Legal Battlefield,” Center 

for AIDS Intervention Research, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 2007 

“The Importance of Cooperation Between Health and Criminal Justice Agencies,” 

International Seminar: Treatment of Drug Addiction in the Era of HIV/AIDS, UNODC, 

St. Petersburg State Pavlov Medical University, NIH and UNAIDS, St. Petersburg, 

Russia, 2006 

“Emerging Principles of Healthy Urban Governance,” 2d Meeting of the Knowledge 

Network on Urban Settings, WHO Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, 

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 2006 

“Discriminating Justice: Does the ADA Enforcement System Treat People with 

Psychiatric Disabilities Fairly?” First Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, 

University of Texas-Austin, 2006 

“Global Health Governance and the Health Coalition,” Coalitions and Collaboration in 

Global Health: A Symposium for Global Health Leaders, the Carter Center, Atlanta, 2006 

“The Yellow Fever Tour of Philadelphia and What It Tells Us About Bio-Terror and 

Epidemic Preparedness,” American Health Lawyer’s Association 2006 Annual Meeting, 

Philadelphia, 2006 

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“Rapid Policy Assessment and Response: Acting Locally to Address the Health Effects of 

Laws and Law Enforcement Practices,” HIV/AIDS and Law: Theory, Practice and Policy, 

Keele University (U.K.), 2006 

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“Drug Law in Practice in a Polish City,” 17 International Conference on the Reduction 

of Drug-Related Harm, Vancouver, 2006 

“Managing the Machine: Challenges of Governance in a Nodal World,” Workshop on 

Defining and Shaping the Architecture for Global Health Governance: Current Issues 

and Future Perspectives, German Institute of Global and Area Studies and the World 

Health Organization, Hamburg, 2006 

“Do Criminal Laws Promote Condom Use?” Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, 

University of California San Francisco, 2006 

“Pressure Points for Governance in a Nodal World,” Salzburg Seminar on the Global 

Governance of Health, Salzburg, 2005 

“The ‘Risk Environment’ for Commercial Sex Work in China: Considering the Role of 

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Law and Law Enforcement Practices,” The 2 China-US Conference Research 

Roundtable, Peking University/Texas A & M University, Beijing, 2005 

“Regulation of Dental Care for People with HIV: The U.S. Experience,” Beijing 

Stomatological Hospital, Capital University of Medical Sciences, Beijing, 2005 

“ARVs, Human Rights and Governance,” Pan-Pacific Regional HIV/AIDS Conference 

2005, Auckland 

“Law Enforcement Practice and HIV/AIDS,” Workshop On Law, Human Rights And 

HIV/AIDS, Beijing AIZHIXING Institute of Health Education, 2005 

“State Quarantine Laws: To Revise or Not to Revise,” The Public's Health and the Law 

in the 21st Century 4th Annual Partnership Conference, Atlanta, 2005 

“How Legal Developments are Impacting HIV Prevention Policies,” National HIV 

Prevention Conference, Atlanta, 2005 

“Do Criminal Laws Promote Disclosure of HIV Status to Sex Partners?” National HIV 

Prevention Conference, Atlanta, 2005; Pan-Pacific Regional HIV/AIDS Conference 

2005, Auckland 

“Law, Health and the Profession of Health Law,” University of Szczecin Department of 

Law, Poland, 2005 

“Implementation, Advocacy and Governance,” Annual Meeting of the Open Society 

Institute Global Health Network, Istanbul, 2005 

“Law and Health: The Case of HIV Among Injection Drug Users,” Odessa Maritime 

University Department of Law, Ukraine, 2005 

“Needle Exchange as Microgovernance,” 16 International Conference on the Reduction 

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of Drug Related Harm, Belfast, Northern Ireland, 2005 

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“Policy and HIV,” and “Criminal Law and HIV/AIDS: The United States Experience,” 

The Conference on HIV/AIDS Legislation, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, 2004. 

“The Impact of HIV/AIDS on the Development of U.S. Public Health Law,” Sino- 

American Conference on China Health Law, Yunnan University, Kunming, China; 

Symposium on the Development of Health Law Education in China, Tsinghua University, 

Beijing, China, 2004. 

“Nodal Governance and the Economic Gains of Health,” Prolead II, WHO Centre for 

Health Development, Bangkok, 2005; Meeting on the Economic Gains of Promoting 

Health, World Health Organization, Manila, 2004 

“Harm Reduction, Criminal Justice and Local Governance,” University of Colorado- 

Denver, 2004 

“East to East: Governance, Law Enforcement and HIV Prevention for IDUs,” East to East 

Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, 2004 

“Rapid Policy Assessment: Mapping Power to Make Change for IDUs,” 15 th 

International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm, Melbourne, Australia, 

2004 

“The Governance of Health,” Center for Public Health Law, LaTrobe University, 

Melbourne, Australia, 2004 

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“Challenging Partnerships: Law, Harm Reduction and Public Health,” 15 International 

Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm, Melbourne, Australia, 2004 

“Nodal Governance, Microgovernance, and Health,” SARS and the Global Governance of 

Public Health, Temple Law School, 2004 

“Reclaiming Ethics,” 2004 National STD Prevention Conference, Philadelphia, PA 

“ADA Damages: Empirical Snapshots of a Failing System,” HIV/AIDS Law and Practice 

2004, ABA AIDS Coordinating Committee, New Orleans, 2004 

“The Role of Law in HIV Prevention,” Souzou (China) CDC, 2003; Chinese CDC, 

Beijing, 2002 

“The Need for a Health Law Speciality in China,” Sino-American Conference on 

China Health Law, Yunnan University, Kunming, China, 2004; Sichuan 

University, Chengdu; China University of Politics and Law, Beijing, China, 2003 

“Syringe Access Law Update,” Drug Policy Alliance Biennial Meeting, New 

Jersey, 2003 

“Law as a Factor in Public Health: Theoretical and Methodological 

Considerations,” University of Rochester School of Medicine, New York, 2003 

“Addressing the Risk Environment for IDUs: The Place of Law in an Ecological 

Epidemiology,” National Centre for HIV Social Research ; Faculty of Law, 

University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2003; National Centre for 

Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, 

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Australia, 2003 


“Linking Law and Social Epidemiology,” Center for Public Health Law, LaTrobe 

University, Melbourne, Australia, 2003 

“Syringe Access Law in the United States: A State of the Art Assessment of Law and 

Policy,” Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Substance Abuse Policy Research Program 

Annual Meeting, Tucson, 2002; Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Substance Abuse 

Policy Research Program, Policy Briefing, Washington, 2002; Fourth National Harm 

Reduction Conference, Seattle, 2002; American Public Health Association Annual 

Meeting, Philadelphia, 2002 (poster) 

“Implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act in Federal Courts and 

Administrative Agencies: An Empirical Evaluation, 2002,” American Public Health 

Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2002 

“Human Subject Protections as Regulation: A Comparative, Empirical View,” Yale 

School of Medicine, New Haven, 2002 

“A Framework for Legal Action to Prevent HIV,” Shanghai Academy of Social 

Sciences/Legal Committee, Municipal People’s Congress, Shanghai, 2002 

“The Mysterious Case of the Missing Cop: the Role of Laws and Law Enforcement 

Practices in the Spread of HIV, STD and TB in Marginalized Populations,” Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, 2002; Johns Hopkins University Medical 

School, Sexually Transmitted Infections Seminar, Baltimore, 2002 

“An Empirical, Multidisciplinary Framework for Understanding Health and Human 

Rights in the HIV/AIDS Pandemic,” XIV International AIDS Conference, Barcelona, 

2002 (poster) 

“Local Capacity Governance as HIV/AIDS Prevention: the Zwelethemba Model,” XIV 

International AIDS Conference, Barcelona, 2002 (poster); American Society of Law, 

Medicine and Ethics Health Law Teacher’s Conference, Indianapolis, 2002; American 

Public Health Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2002 

“State Syringe and Drug Possession Laws Potentially Influencing Safe Syringe Disposal 

by Injection Drug Users,” Coalition for Safe Community Needle Disposal, Washington, 

D.C., 2002 

“Legal Issues in the Provision of Interferon to Hepatitis C Patients,” American 

Psychiatric Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, 2002 

“Implementation of the Americans with Disabilities Act in Federal Courts and 

Administrative Agencies: An Empirical Evaluation,” American Public Health 

Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 2001 

“Integrating Law and Legal Factors in Public Health Research,” An Interdisciplinary 

Conference on State Law and Public Health, University of Kentucky, Lexington, 2001 

“Stigma and the Law,” Stigma and Global Health: Developing a Research Agenda, 

National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2001; Health, Law and Human Rights: 

Exploring the Connection, Philadelphia, 2001 

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th 

“Syringe Access and the Law: Needle Exchange, Deregulation and Beyond,” 13 AIDS 

Update Conference, San Francisco, 2001; Bridging the Gap – Creating a Continuum of 

Care for Drug Users, The Pennsylvania/Mid Atlantic AIDS Education and Training 

th 

Center, Pittsburgh, 2001; 7 Annual Street Outreach Workers Conference, Austin, TX, 

2001; National Conference of State Legislatures Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, 

2001, An Interdisciplinary Conference on State Law and Public Health, University of 

Kentucky, Lexington, 2001; National Conference of State Legislatures Health Law 

Conference, Seattle WA, 2001 

“Syringe Access and the Law: Past, Present and Future,” Needle Exchange Programs as a 

Public Health Issue, York HIV Prevention Project, York PA, 2000 

“Drug Law, Jim Crow and Public Health,” U.S. Drug Laws: The New Jim Crow? Beasley 

School of Law, 2000 

“Physician Prescription of Sterile Injection Equipment: Moving Harm Reduction into the 

Health Care System,” XIII International AIDS Conference, Durban, South Africa, 2000; 

United States Conference on AIDS, Atlanta, 2000; Third National Harm Reduction 

Conference, Miami, 2000; Robert Wood Johnson Substance Abuse Policy Research 

Program Annual Meeting, Santa Fe, 2000 

“Law, Human Rights and HIV: Exploring the Connection,” XIII International AIDS 

Conference, Durban, South Africa, 2000; The Futures Group International, Washington, 

DC, 2001 

“Structural Interventions to Prevent Hepatitis and HIV in IDUs,” Drug Use, HIV, and 

Hepatitis: Bringing It All Together, Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, National 

Institute on Drug Abuse, CDC, Baltimore, 2000; Iowa AIDS Odyssey 2001, Des Moines, 

2000 

“Legal Issues in the Distribution of Naloxone,” Preventing Heroin Overdose: Pragmatic 

th 

Approaches, Seattle, 2000; 13 International Conference on Drug Policy Reform, Drug 

Policy Foundation, Washington, 2000 

“Disputing Under the ADA: Answers, and Some Questions,” Americans with Disabilities 

Act: Past, Present and Future, Beasley School of Law, 1999 

“‘Willful Exposure’ to HIV: Legal, Social and Ethical Dimensions,” National HIV 

Prevention Conference, Atlanta, 1999 

“Surveillance, Social Risk, Symbolism,” Early Detection of HIV: Emerging Issues in HIV 

Prevention and Care, National Institute of Mental Health, Washington, D.C., 1999 

“Reliance on Law,” Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 1999 

“Gay Marriage as a Public Health Issue,” Same-Sex Marriage: Implications for Mental, 

Physical and Public Health, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, 

1999 

“The American Tradition of Health Crimes; or, Tradition is Bunk,” Using Law to 

Regulate Behavior: AIDS and the Criminalization of Sex, Yale University Center for 

Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, New Haven, 1999 

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“Physician Prescription of Injection Equipment: Time for Action,” 11th Annual AmFAR 

AIDS Update Conference, San Francisco, 1999; Section of Individual Rights and 

Responsibilities, American Bar Association, Annual Meeting, Atlanta, 1999 

“Harm Reduction and the Prevention of Bloodborne Disease,” Combating Drug 

Addiction in the Republic of Georgia, Tiblisi, 1999 

“Laws and Regulations Relating to Pharmacy Sale of Syringes: Implications for HIV 

Infection Among Injection Drug Users,” CDC and American Pharmaceutical Association 

Conference on HIV Prevention and the Role of Pharmacists in the Sale of Sterile 

Syringes, San Antonio, 1999; Annual Meeting, District III National Association of 

Boards of Pharmacy and American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Destin FL, 

1999; Annual Meeting, Districts VI, VII & VIII, National Association of Boards of 

Pharmacy and American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, Vancouver, 1999 

“Reconstructing the Responsibility for AIDS,” HIV/AIDS and the Law: An Agenda for 

Beyond the Millennium, American Bar Association AIDS Coordinating Committee, 

Washington; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, 1999 

“Public Health and Human Rights in the Face of HIV” and “HIV Law and Ethics: The 

Moral Challenges of An Epidemic,” Lawyer’s Collective HIV/AIDS Unit Judges’ 

Workshop, Bombay, 1999 

“Legal Aspects of HIV Prevention in Vulnerable Populations,” National Multi-sectoral 

Committee on the Prevention of HIV and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (Kyrgyz 

Republic), Bishkek, 1998 

“New Issues in Public Health,” 19th Annual Health Law Teachers Conference, American 

Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics/University of Houston Health Law Institute, Houston, 

1998 

“HIV, AIDS and Law: Taking Stock, Moving Forward,” Harvard Law School, 1998 

“Understanding the Legal Protections and Barriers to Care for Persons with HIV,” Kaiser 

Family Foundation Forum on Understanding the Impact of New Treatments on HIV 

Testing, Palo Alto, 1998 

“Legal Strategies to Improve Syringe Availability,” Lindesmith Center, New York, 1997; 

San Francisco, 1998 

“Gay Sexual Ecology and Straight Policy,” Constructing Family, Constructing Change: 

Shifting Legal Perspectives on Same-Sex Relationships, Temple Law School 

Philadelphia, 1997 

“Law and the Social Risk of HIV Testing: Issues for Research and Policy,” Center for 

AIDS Prevention Studies, San Francisco, CA, 1996; National Association of State and 

Territorial AIDS Directors, San Francisco, CA, 1996; Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention, Atlanta, GA, 1997; Yale School of Public Health, New Haven, 1997; HIV 

Center, Columbia University, New York, 1997; Law and Society Association, St. Louis, 

1997; Health Care Policy: What Lessons Have We Learned from the AIDS Pandemic, 

Albany Law School, 1997 

“Legal Regulation of Sex-Facilitating Businesses: A Population Perspective,” III World 

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Congress of Bioethics, San Francisco, CA, 1996 

“How Does Law Matter: The Case of HIV Testing,” Seton Hall Law School Legal Theory 

Workshop, Newark, NJ, 1996 

"Liability for Accidental Injuries," Workshop on Safe Syringe and Needle Disposal, Johns 

Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health/Kaiser Family Foundation/Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, Baltimore MD, 1996 

"The Invisibility of Public Health: Population-Level Measures in a Politics of Radical 

Individualism," 17th Annual Health Law Teachers Conference, American Society of 

Law, Medicine & Ethics/Widener University Health Law Institute, Wilmington, DE, 

1996 

"The Legal Management of HIV-Related Stigma," Research Workshop on AIDS and 

Stigma, National Institute of Mental Health, Office on AIDS, Bethesda, MD, 1996 

"Public Policy Aspects of Regulating Bathhouses and Sex Clubs: The Legal 

Background," Kaiser Family Foundation/Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, New York, 

1995 

"Public Health in Prisons" and "HIV Discrimination in Health Care,” International 

Interdisciplinary Conference: AIDS Law and Humanity, Indian Law Institute, New Delhi, 

1995 

"From Sic Utere to Significant Risk: Necessity in Public Health Law," Law & Society 

Association Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ 1994. 

"The Public Sector: Access to Government Entitlement Programs," National AIDS 

Roundtable, Washington, DC, 1993 

"Limits of Law in Addressing HIV-Related Homelessness and Housing Discrimination," 

Eleventh Annual Edward V. Sparer Public Interest Law Conference, University of 

Pennsylvania Law School, Philadelphia, PA, 1993 

"Thoughts on the Law and the Public's Health," American Society of Law, Medicine & 

Ethics, Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 1993. 

SIGNIFICANT LITIGATION 

State of New Jersey v. City of Atlantic City, Superior Court of New Jersey, 2004-6: 

Represented municipality seeking to operate a syringe exchange program 

Doe v. County of Centre, United States District Court of the Middle District of 

Pennsylvania and Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1999-2002: Represented family 

denied participation in foster care program because of HIV infection 

Scoles v. Mercy Catholic Medical Center, United States District Court for the Eastern 

District of Pennsylvania, 1992-94: Represented HIV-infected surgeon in first major 

application of Americans with Disabilities Act to discrimination in the health care setting 

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Leckelt v. Hospital District, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1990: 

Represented plaintiff in first major test of Rehabilitation Act as a bar to HIV-based 

discrimination against a health care worker 

In re Application of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center: Pennsylvania Supreme Court, 

1992: Amicus curiae in first case to address the legality of widespread notification of 

patients of a health care provider's HIV 

Starky v. Matty, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 

1991: Represented inmates in class action suit resulting in model comprehensive 

settlement of HIV medical care and discrimination claims 

Austin v. Pennsylvania Department of Corrections, United States District Court for the 

Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1991-8: Represented inmates in state-wide class action 

challenging prison HIV and TB policies and practices 

Lyall v. Balshi, Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, 1990-3: Represented 

plaintiffs in a series of complaints against dentists who refused care to HIV-infected 

patients 

FUNDED RESEARCH 

Department for International Development (U.K.), “Access to Therapeutic Opiates: 

Strategies for Policy Reform,” 2007-08 

Drug Policy Alliance, “Legal Aspects of Preventing Opiate Overdose in the US: 

Informing Timely Advocacy and Legislation,” 2006-07 

Open Society Institute, “International Health Governance Initiative,” 2005-06 

Open Society Institute, “Health Law Research and Teaching in China and Ukraine,” 

2005-06 

National Institute of Mental Health, “Community Prevention Policy & Programs in Risk 

Settings,” 2004-08 

National Institute of Drug Abuse, “Rapid Assessment of Drug Law & Policy in the CEE 

& FSU,” 2003-08 

U.S. Department of State, Travel Grant in China, 2002 

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research, 

“Human Subjects Protection as Regulation: A Comparative, Empirical View,” 

2002-2008 (P.I.) 

Academy for Educational Development, “Influence of Criminal Law on Syringe Disposal 

by Injection Drug Users,” 2002 (P.I.) 

Open Society Institute, International Harm Reduction Development Program, “Tracking 

Drug Policy and Health in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union,” 2001- 

2002 (P.I.) 

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Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Substance Abuse Policy Research Program, “Harm 

Reduction in the Health Care System: Attitudinal and Legal Factors Influencing 

Greater Physician Involvement in Providing Care to and Preventing Injection- 

Related Disease among Injection Drug Users,” 2001-2002 (P.I.) 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Center for Law and the Public’s Health,” 

2000- (Consortium P.I.) 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “The Influence of Criminal Laws on HIV 

Sexual Risk Behavior,” 2000-2003 (Consortium P.I.) 

American Foundation for AIDS Research, “Health, Law and Human Rights: Exploring 

the Connections,” 2000-2001 (P.I.) 

National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research, “Resolving ADA 

Employment Discrimination Charges,” 2000-2002 (Consultant) 

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, “A Structural Analysis of the Role of Law and 

Human Rights in Preventing HIV,” 2000-2001 (P.I.) 

National Institute of Mental Health, “Enforcing the Rights of Persons with Psychiatric 

Disabilities Under Title I of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA),” 2000- 

2003 (Consultant) 

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, "Social and Environmental Interventions to 

Reduce HIV Incidence in Drug Users," 1999-2001 (Consortium P.I. and coinvestigator) 

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Substance Abuse Policy Research Program, “Harm 

Reduction in the Health Care System: A Legal Analysis of Prescribing and 

Dispensing Sterile Injection Equipment to Patients Who Use Illegal Drugs,” 1999- 

2000 (P.I.) 

National Institute of Mental Health, “Psychiatric Disabilities/ADA/Employment 

Discrimination,” 1998-2000 (Consultant) 

Obermann Fellowship, Obermann Center for Advanced Studies, University 

of Iowa: “Employment, Disability and the Americans with Disabilities Act,” 1997 

Milbank Memorial Fund/Johns Hopkins School of Public Health: 

"The Future of Public Health Law," 1994 (Co-investigator) 

Temple University Research Incentive Fund, 1993 

Law and Society Association Summer Institute, 1993 

SELECTED CONSULTING AND ADVISORY COMMITTEES 

American Dental Association 

HIV infection among dentists 

American Psychological Association 

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Ethical and legal issues in HIV care 

Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network 

Advisory Committee, HIV Model Legislation Project 

Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, Yale University 

Law, Policy and Ethics Core 

Project Parivartan (Gates Foundation India Initiative) 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 

Privacy Law Advisory Committee 

Expert technical review panel: HIV counseling, testing and referral standards 

HIV Partner Counseling and Referral Services -- Handling Cases of “Wilful 

Exposure” 

Best Practices in Prevention Services for People Living with HIV -- Legal and 

Ethical Issues 

National HIV Prevention Summit 

Disease, Disability, and Injury Prevention and Control Special 

Emphasis Panel (SEP): Research on the Impact of Law on 

Public Health 

Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists 

Advisory committee on distinguishing practice and research under the Common 

Rule 

Healthier Babies (Philadelphia, PA) 

Confidentiality issues in measuring regional outcomes for at-risk pregnancies 

HIV Prevention Trials Network (NIH) 

A Phase III randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of drug treatment 

in prevention of HIV infection among opiate dependent injectors (HPTN 058) 

Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences 

Committee on Regulating Workplace Exposure to Tuberculosis 

st 

Committee on Educating Public Health Professionals for the 21 Century 

International Harm Reduction Association 

Programme Advisory Group, Harm Reduction & Human Rights Monitoring and 

Policy Analysis Programme 

International Program Advisory Group, 16th-18th International Conferences on 

the Reduction of Drug Related Harm 

The Lindesmith Center 

Physician prescription of sterile injection equipment to intravenous drug users. 

Selection Committee, Soros Harm Reduction and Drug Policy Reform 

Fellowships 

Kaiser Family Foundation 

Assessing the HIV Prevention Investment in the United States 

Milbank Memorial Fund 

Future of Public Health Leadership project 

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Monash University (Australia) 

Master of International Research Bioethics Program International Advisory 

Committee. 

National Conference of State Legislatures, National Human Genome Research Institute 

(NIH) and Georgetown University Law Center 

Genetics Advisory Committee 

National Institutes of Health 

Stigma working group 

NIMH Data Safety Monitoring Board: Health-Related Interventions for Persons 

Living with HIV 

Special Emphasis Panel, HIV Center Review 

The Open Society Institute 

Drug law reform in the Republic of Georgia 

IHRD Drug Policy Reform Project 

Pennsylvania AIDS Education and Training Center 

HIV discrimination in health care; HIV control in prisons; HIV in dentistry 

The Policy Project (Futures Group) 

Development of comprehensive HIV/AIDS legislation in Tanzania 

Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Research Center for HIV/AIDS Public Policy 

Tri-Star Pictures/Clinica Estetica 

Legal consultant for motion picture "Philadelphia" by Jonathan Demme 

Tsinghua University (Beijing) AIDS Institute 

UNAIDS Criminalization of HIV 

Global Reference Group on HIV/AIDS and Human Rights, Subcommittee on 

Criminalization 

United Nations Development Program 

Public health law reform to prevent HIV in Central Asia 

World Health Organization 

Economic Gains of Promoting Health (Western Pacific Regional Office and the 

Kobe Center) 

Commission on the Social Determinants of Health, Knowledge Network on Urban 

Settings 

United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime 

HIV and Police 

OTHER PUBLICATIONS (selected) 

Harm Reduction: What's a Lawyer to Do? 17 INT’L J. DRUG POLICY 50 (book review) 

Stigma and the Law, 367 THE LANCET 529 (2006) 

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To Serve and Protect? Toward a Better Relationship between Drug Control Policy and 

Public Health, 20 AIDS 117 (2006) (with Strathdee) 

Shanghai Plans Responses To AIDS, 365 THE LANCET 1524 (2005) (with Csete et al) 

Introduction to the Symposium on SARS, Public Health and Global Governance, 77 

TEMPLE L. REV. 143 (2004)(with Dunoff) 

Adapting to the Reality of HIV: Difficult Policy Choices in Russia, China, and India, 

HUMAN RIGHTS, Fall, 2004, at 10 (with Villena). 

Harm Reduction’s First Principle: “The Opposite of Hatred,” 15 INT’L J. DRUG POLICY 

243 (2004) 

Are Human Rights Good for Your Health? 358 THE LANCET 1901 (2001) (with Loff and 

Lazzarini) 

Compulsory Detention: Limits of Law, 358 THE LANCET 146 (2001) (with Loff) 

Human Immunodeficiency Virus, in ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CRIME AND JUSTICE (Joshua 

Dressler, revised ed., Macmillan Reference, 2001) 

Introduction: Ask, Tell, Help, 11 HEALTH MATRIX 1 ( 2001) 

Contagion and Confinement: Controlling Tuberculosis Along the Skid Road, (book 

review), 25 J. HEALTH POL. POL’Y & L. 1168 (2000) 

Fatal Extraction: The Story Behind the Florida Dentist Accused of Infecting His Patients 

with HIV and Poisoning Public Health, (book review), 23 J. HEALTH POL. POL’Y & 

L. 581(1998). 

Dedication (to Jonathan M. Mann), HUMAN RIGHTS, Fall, 1998, at 3. 

Healthcare Privacy & Confidentiality: The Complete Legal Guide, (book review) 

16 J. LEGAL MED. 447 (1995) 

AIDS in the World: A Global Report (book review), 45 INT'L J. HEALTH LEG. 584 (1994) 

Magic's Put on the Bench by the AIDS Alarmists, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, Nov. 18, 1992 

The Senate Flips Over AIDS, PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, July 22, 1991 

The Law on the Side of Young AIDS Victims, N. Y. TIMES, Sept. 23, 1985 

BOARDS AND PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES 

American Bar Association, Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities, Health 

Rights Committee (Vice-chair, 1997-98, 1999-2001; Co-chair, 1998-99) 

American Bar Association, AIDS Coordinating Committee (1999-) 

American Civil Liberties Union of Greater Philadelphia (Board member, 1996-2004) 

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Healthier Babies, Inc. (a regional population-based clinical database supporting efforts to 

manage and improve health outcomes)(Board member, 1999-2005) 

Open Society Institute, Global Health Advisory Committee (2005-06) 

Pennsylvania Coalition to Save Lives Now (harm reduction education and advocacy 

group) (steering committee, 1999-2003) 

Pennsylvania Institutional Law Project (Board member, 1998-2006) 

Prevention Point Philadelphia (syringe exchange program) (Board Member 2006-) 

Prevention Point Pittsburgh (syringe exchange program) (Advisory Board Member 2003-) 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES 

Associate Editor, International Journal of Drug Policy, 2006- (editorial board, 2004-) 

Editorial Board, Journal of Community Psychology, 2006- 

Editor, Public Health Law and Policy Abstracts, Social Science Research Network, 2005- 

Editorial Board, The HIV/AIDS Policy & Law Review, 2005- 

Organized “NGO Training on Law and Policy in HIV/AIDS Prevention,” Beijing, China, 

2006 

Organized Open Society Institute Seminar on the Global Governance of Health, Schloss 

Arenberg, Salzburg, Austria, 2005 

Organized conference on “The State of Health Law in China,” Temple Law School, 2005 

Organized “Health Law and Ethics Workshop for HIV/AIDS Campaign,” China CDC, 

Beijing, 2005 

Delegation Leader, People to People Citizen Ambassador Program, Public Health Law 

Delegation to China, 2005 

Visiting Fellow, Regulatory Systems Network (RegNet), Research School of the Social 

Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Jan.-June, 2003 

Guest Editor, Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics, “Health, Law and Human Rights: 

Exploring the Connections,” 2002 

Organized and co-chaired international, interdisciplinary conference, “Health, Law and 

Human Rights: Exploring the Connections,” 2001 

Editorial Board, Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, 2000- 

Peer review: AIDS and Public Policy Journal, AIDS, American Journal of Public Health, 

Aspen Publishers, Clinical Infectious Diseases, Developing World Bioethics, Health 

Affairs, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of Health Politics, Policy 

and Law, Law and Society Review, National Research Foundation (South Africa), Social 

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Science and Medicine 

HONORS AND AWARDS 


James E. Beasley Chair, Temple University Beasley School of Law (2002-7) 

Honored by Prevention Point Philadelphia (needle exchange program), 2003 

CDC Recognition Award, World AIDS Day, 2002 

Best Overall Abstract, HIV/AIDS Section, American Public Health Association Annual 

Meeting, 2002 (“Evaluating the impact of criminal laws on HIV risk behavior,” 

with Lazzarini et al.) 

Friel-Scanlan Prize (for outstanding scholarship), Temple Law School, 1999 

Pennsylvania Prison Society Award (“for meritorious service in the field of corrections”), 

1994 

BAR ADMISSIONS 

Pennsylvania, 1988 

Third Circuit United States Court of Appeals, 1988 

Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1988 

Middle District of Pennsylvania, 1990 

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