Perspectives on the Pandemic
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the faculty of the Center for Health Law Studies has been lending their expertise through national media, local government and scholarly contributions.
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Professors Rob Gatter and Ana Santos Rutschman present Covid-19: Public Health Law & Policy Overview
Professors Elizabeth Pendo and Harold Braswell (Health Care Ethics) present Allocation of Scarce Healthcare Resources in the Time of COVID 19: Perspectives from Disability Law and Ethics.
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Expert in public health and quarantine procedure
In mid-March, Professor Gatter was appointed to a task force in St. Louis County to assist with the development of quarantine policies. Read more
Professor Gatter and Professor Ana Santos Rutschman wrote an opinion piece for the on quarantine policies.
Professor Gatter presented at the Isolated by Law Symposium held by Wake Forest Law.
Professor Gatter was quoted in the following articles:
, Belleville News Democrat.
, St. Louis Public Radio.
, St. Louis Public Radio.
, Washington and Lee Law Review Online, Forthcoming, May 2020.
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, The Harvard Law Blog
For a full listing of Professor Gatter's contributions to the COVID-19 conversation
Assistant Professor
Expert in food and drug law, emerging health care innovations and patent law
In February 2020, Professor Rutschman and Tim Wiemken, Ph.D., associate professor from 91女神COR, began the 鈥淚mmunization Science and Policy Partnership at Saint Louis University.鈥� Funded through a Spark Microgrant from the 91女神 Research Institute, the partnership aims to bring together experts working on topics at the intersection of vaccine science and policy.
Rutschman and Wiemken joined Enbal Shacham, Ph.D., professor of public health, to study the effects of social distancing on the spread of COVID-19. Rutschman was interviewed by KMOV and to discuss their findings.
Professors Rutchman and Gatter wrote a piece for offering initial analysis of the coronavirus lawsuits in the United States against China and the World Health Organization.
Other articles with Professor Rutschman:
, Healthaffairs.org, written by Professor Rutschman
, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
, South China Morning Press
, The Conversation
, The Washington Times
, Crikey
Professor
Expert in disability law and health care ethics
, Vaccine
Get Your Advance Directives in Place Now, Inside Indiana Business
Elizabeth Pendo and Stacey Tovino, COVID-19 and Workplace and Medical Privacy, Isolated by the Law series, Workplace and Wake Forest University School of Law, May 8, 2020
Elizabeth Pendo and Harold Braswell, Allocation of Scarce Healthcare Resources in the Time of COVID 19: Perspectives from Disability Law and Ethics, 91女神LAW Center for Health Law Studies COVID-19 Series, April 8, 2020
Elizabeth Pendo and Harold Braswell, Allocation of Scarce Healthcare Resources in the Time of COVID 19: Perspectives from Disability Law and Ethics, Albert Gnaegi Center for Health Care Ethics, April 16, 2020
Writing
Elizabeth Pendo, COVID 19 and Disability-Based Discrimination in Health Care, ABA Commission on Disability Rights, COVID-19 Resources (forthcoming)
Elizabeth Pendo, The Americans with Disabilities Act in the COVID-19 Workplace, in Work Law Under COVID-19 (Jeffrey M. Hirsch and Sachin S. Pandya, eds.) (Oct. 4, 2020),
Professor and Executive Director of the Institute for Healing Justice and Equity
Expert in health care regulation, race, justice and health
, St. Louis Public Radio
Jane and Bruce Robert Professor of Law
Expert in health law and access to health care
This Week in Health Law podcast