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Letter In Reply To Bernard Prusak, Et Al., Govind C. Persad
Letter In Reply To Bernard Prusak, Et Al., Govind C. Persad
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
Scarce medical resource allocation should aim to prevent harm, especially to those who would be most disadvantaged if not helped. Bernard Prusak et al.’s letter reveals a narrow vision of which harms and disadvantages matter, one that overlooks opportunities to simultaneously prevent important harms and avoid exacerbating disadvantage.
Tailoring Public Health Policies, Govind Persad
Tailoring Public Health Policies, Govind Persad
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
In an effort to contain the spread of COVID-19, many states and countries have adopted public health restrictions on activities previously considered commonplace: crossing state borders, eating indoors, gathering together, and even leaving one's home. These policies often focus on specific activities or groups, rather than imposing the same limits across the board. In this Article, I consider the law and ethics of these policies, which I call tailored policies.In Part II, I identify two types of tailored policies: activity-based and group-based. Activity-based restrictions respond to differences in the risks and benefits of specific activities, such as walking outdoors and …
Allocating Medicine Fairly In An Unfair Pandemic, Govind Persad
Allocating Medicine Fairly In An Unfair Pandemic, Govind Persad
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
America’s COVID-19 pandemic has both devastated and disparately harmed minority communities. How can the allocation of scarce treatments for COVID-19 and similar public health threats fairly and legally respond to these racial disparities? Some have proposed that members of racial groups who have been especially hard-hit by the pandemic should receive priority for scarce treatments. Others have worried that this prioritization misidentifies racial disparities as reflecting biological differences rather than structural racism, or that it will generate mistrust among groups who have previously been harmed by medical research. Still others complain that such prioritization would be fundamentally unjust. I argue …
Improving The Ethical Review Of Health Policy And Systems Research: Some Suggestions, Govind Persad
Improving The Ethical Review Of Health Policy And Systems Research: Some Suggestions, Govind Persad
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
Consistent and well-designed frameworks for ethical oversight enable socially valuable research while forestalling harmful or poorly designed studies. I suggest some alterations that might strengthen the valuable checklist Rattani and Hyder propose in this issue of Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics Reference Rattani and Hyder for the ethical review of health policy and systems research (HPSR), or prompt future work in the area.
Pricing Drugs Fairly, Govind C. Persad
Pricing Drugs Fairly, Govind C. Persad
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
Dissatisfaction with drug prices has prompted a flurry of recent legislation and academic research. But while pharmaceutical policy often regards fair pricing as a goal, the concept of fairness itself frequently goes undefined. Legal scholarship—even work ostensibly focused on fairness—has not defined and defended an account of fair pricing. Recent legislative proposals passed by the House and proposed by Sens. Ron Wyden and Chuck Grassley have similarly avoided a determinate position on fairness. This Article explains and defends an account of what makes a price for a drug fair that identifies fair price with social value, argues for implementing fair …
Fair Allocation At Covid-19 Mass Vaccination Sites, William F. Parker, Govind C. Persad, Monica E. Peek
Fair Allocation At Covid-19 Mass Vaccination Sites, William F. Parker, Govind C. Persad, Monica E. Peek
Sturm College of Law: Faculty Scholarship
On February 26, 2021, the Federal Emergency and Management Agency (FEMA) announced 18 community vaccination centers in major cities capable of administering up to 6000 vaccines daily. Mass vaccination sites like these arrive amid staggering socioeconomic and racial disparities in COVID-19 vaccination. Black and Hispanic people are being vaccinated at less than half the rate of White people, despite being twice as likely to die of COVID-19. The wealth gap is similarly substantial, reaching up to a 65% difference between the wealthiest and poorest counties in Connecticut. The federal government is supporting mass vaccination sites, in part, to alleviate disparities, …