President of Georgetown University John J. DeGioia

Dean of Georgetown Law T. Alexander Aleinikoff

Dean of Georgetown School of Nursing & Health Studies Bette Keltner

Faculty Director of the O'Neill Institute Dean Lawrence O. Gostin

Center on Global Health; Director Lawrence O. Gostin

Center on Health Care Financing and Organization; Director M. Gregg Bloche

Center for Disease Prevention and Health Outcomes; Director Bernhard Liese

Center on Health Regulation and Governance; Director David Vladeck

O'Neill Institute Senior Scholar Timothy Westmoreland

O'Neill Institute Senior Scholar Allyn Taylor

As president of Georgetown University, John J. DeGioia is deeply committed to sustaining academic excellence at Georgetown. He has helped to recruit intellectual leaders to the faculty and secured substantial funding for scholarly research and academic programs.
   Dr. DeGioia addresses broader issues in higher education as a board member of the American Council on Education, the Association of American Colleges and Universities, and the Campus Compact, and as an executive committee member of the Council on Competitiveness.    Dr. DeGioia has expanded opportunities for intercultural and interreligious dialogue, welcomed world leaders to campus, and convened international conferences to address challenging issues. He is a member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO and Chair of its Education Committee and he represents Georgetown at the World Economic Forum and on the Council on Foreign Relations.
   As the first lay president of a Jesuit university, Dr. DeGioia places special emphasis on sustaining and strengthening Georgetown's Catholic and Jesuit identity and its responsibility to serve as a voice and an instrument for justice. He has also been a strong advocate for inter-religious dialogue.
   Dr. DeGioia is a Professorial Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy. He earned a bachelor's degree in English from Georgetown University in 1979 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University in 1995. Prior to his appointment as president, Dr. DeGioia held a variety of senior administrative positions at Georgetown, including senior vice president, responsible for university-wide operations, and dean of student affairs. In 2004, he was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Academia from the Sons of Italy.

T. Alexander Aleinikoff has been executive vice president of Law Center Affairs and dean of Georgetown University Law Center since July 2004. He has been a member of the Georgetown faculty since 1997 and served as associate dean for research from 2003 to 2004. He has written widely on immigration, refugee and citizenship law and constitutional law. Dean Aleinikoff served as general counsel and executive associate commissioner for programs at the Immigration and Naturalization Service for several years during the Clinton Administration. From 1997 to 2004 he was a senior associate at the Migration Policy Institute, where he now serves on the Board of Trustees. From 1981 to 1994, he was a professor at the University of Michigan Law School. He is a graduate of Swarthmore College and Yale Law School.

Bette Keltner has served as dean of Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies (NHS) since 1999. During her tenure, she has overseen a substantial growth in the school's research portfolio; the recruitment of high profile scholars; the continued development of four vibrant academic departments in Health Systems Administration, Human Science, International Health, and Nursing; and significant improvements in the school's facilities. She is active in varied organizations and venues that advance health and well being for persons who live in high-risk environments and those who experience disabilities. In particular, she is an advocate for issues related to American Indian and global indigenous issues. Before Georgetown, Keltner served as assistant vice president for medical and health services at Honda of America Mfg. She has also held appointments at the Civitan International Research Center at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, California State University, the University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas, and the University of Wyoming.

Lawrence O. Gostin, an internationally acclaimed scholar, is associate dean (Research and Academic Programs) and the Linda and Timothy O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he directs the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law. Dean Gostin is also professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University and director of the Center for Law & the Public's Health at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities—a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dean Gostin is a visiting professor of Public Health (Faculty of Medical Sciences) and research fellow (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies) at Oxford University, as well as a fellow of the Royal Institute of Public Health. He is the Health Law and Ethics editor and contributing writer for the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Dean Gostin holds two honorary degrees. In 1994, the Chancellor of the State University of New York conferred an Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree. In 2006, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and the Vice Chancellor awarded Cardiff University's (Wales) highest honor, an Honorary Fellow.

Dean Gostin, an elected lifetime Member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences, serves on the Board on Health Sciences Policy and the Committee on Science, Technology, and Law. He currently chairs the IOM Committee on Health Informational Privacy, and has chaired Committees on genomics and prisoner research. The IOM awarded Dean Gostin the Adam Yarmolinsky Medal for distinguished service to further its mission of science and health. He received the Public Health Law Association's Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award "in recognition of a career devoted to using law to improve the public's health" presented at the CDC. Internationally, Dean Gostin received the Rosemary Delbridge Memorial Award from the National Consumer Council (U.K.) for the person "who has most influenced Parliament and government to act for the welfare of society." He also received the Key to Tohoko University (Japan) for distinguished contributions to human rights in mental health.

Dean Gostin has lead major law reform initiatives in the U.S., including the drafting of the Model Emergency Health Powers Act (MEHPA) to combat bioterrorism and the "Turning Point" Model State Public Health Act. He is also leading a drafting team on developing a Model Public Health Law for the World Health Organization.

In the United Kingdom, Lawrence Gostin was the legal director of the National Association for Mental Health, director of the National Council of Civil Liberties (the UK equivalent of the ACLU), and a fellow at Oxford University. He drafted the current Mental Health Act (England and Wales) and brought several landmark cases before the European Commission and Court of Human Rights.

Dean Gostin's latest books are: Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (University of California Press and Milbank Memorial Fund, 2nd ed. Forthcoming 2008); Public Health Ethics: Theory, Policy and Practice (Oxford University Press, 2007); The AIDS Pandemic: Complacency, Injustice, and Unfulfilled Expectations (University of North Carolina Press, 2004); The Human Rights of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities: Different But Equal (Oxford University Press, 2003); and Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader (University of California Press and Milbank Memorial Fund, 2002).

CENTER ON GLOBAL HEALTH
The Center on Global Health aims to improve the functioning and longevity of populations around the world, with a special focus on the most important determinants of health, infectious and chronic diseases, and emergency preparedness.

Director: Dean Lawrence O. Gostin

CENTER ON HEALTH CARE FINANCING AND ORGANIZATION
The Center on Health Care Financing and Organization aims to improve health care systems by focusing on the inefficiencies associated with existing organizational, financing and regulatory structures.

Director: M. Gregg Bloche
Director of the Center on Health Care Financing and Organization, M. Gregg Bloche is a professor of law at Georgetown, a non-resident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for 2005-06 to examine the roles of medicine in the public sphere, and he is one of the country's preeminent scholars of U.S. and international health law and policy. His work has appeared in leading law, medical, and interdisciplinary health policy journals, as well as national newspapers. Dr. Bloche received a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research for 1997 2001 for his work on the regulatory governance of managed care, and he is a member of the editorial boards of several journals, including Health Affairs. He has served on a variety of other boards and advisory bodies, including the Institute of Medicine's Committee on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care, and he was a consultant to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Dr. Bloche received his M.D. and J.D. from Yale University. Before joining Georgetown's faculty, he completed his residency in psychiatry at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center.

CENTER FOR DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH OUTCOMES
The Center for Disease Prevention and Health Outcomes aims to address major health problems and devise practical means to improve health outcomes using an interdisciplinary approach.

Director: Bernhard Liese
Director of the Center for Disease Prevention and Health Outcomes, Dr. Liese is chair of the Department of International Health at Georgetown University School of Nursing & Health Studies. He has more than 30 years' experience in the field of health and development. His area of concentration is in globalization and health and tropical diseases. As a former World Bank staff member, Liese worked in various policy and management functions, including senior advisor for human development, director of the health services department, operations advisor, and principal tropical-disease specialist, to name a few. He was deeply involved in establishing health lending at the Bank and also was the Bank representative for some of the large multi-donor global health programs that the Bank co-sponsors. On a two-year secondment, he provided support to UNDP's Global Health Program as senior advisor for HIV/AIDS. Prior to joining the World Bank, Liese worked for several years as health project manager and director of a nursing and midwifery school for the Ministry of Health in Cameroon. Later, he was in charge of the Health Policy Desk in the Federal Ministry of Health in Germany. He is an avid lecturer and author of numerous articles and holds an M.D. and a D.Sc. from the University of Bonn and an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health.

CENTER ON HEALTH REGULATION AND GOVERNANCE
The Center on Health Regulation and Governance aims to improve government regulation by balancing public goods and private interests through analysis of regulatory justifications, personal burdens, effectiveness and fairness.

Director: David Vladeck
Director of the Center on Health Regulation and Governance, Professor Vladeck is one of the country's foremost public interest litigators and has extensive expertise in occupational safety and health law and food and drug law. He was director of Public Citizen's litigation group and is a board member with the Consumer Health Foundation and a scholar with the Center for Progressive Reform. Professor Vladeck has been active in efforts to improve health and safety regulation in the US, and was for example responsible for the successful litigation strategy that forced OSHA to issue health standards for ethylene oxide, formaldehyde, benzene, and cadmiums. He has written book chapters and law review articles on subjects such as OSHA law and the regulation of toxic substances, and the First Amendment implications of strict regulation of hazardous substances like tobacco and dietary supplements. He is a faculty member with the Institute for Public Representation, a public interest law clinic that provides legal representation to underrepresented groups and individuals before administrative agencies, courts, and other decision-making bodies.

O'Neill Institute Senior Scholar Timothy Westmoreland

Timothy Westmoreland, Senior Scholar in the O'Neill Institute, is a visiting professor of law and also a research professor with the Health Policy Institute at Georgetown's Public Policy Institute. He has almost 30 years' experience working on public health and health finance policy, including serving as staff counsel on health in the U.S. House of Representatives and as the director of the Medicaid program for the federal government. Professor Westmoreland also was counsel to the Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health and an advisor to both the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. He received a Robert Wood Johnson Investigator Award in Health Policy Research for 2001–2003 for his work on federal budget process ad health policy. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School.

O'Neill Institute Senior Scholar Allyn Taylor

Allyn Taylor teaches global health law and international organizations and global health law. In addition to her appointment as a Visiting Professor of Law,  Professor Taylor is an adjunct professor international relations at the Johns Hopkins Nitze School of Advanced International Relations. Prior to joining Georgetown, she held a joint faculty appointment at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and the University of Maryland School of Law where she taught Foundations of Public Health, Human Rights, Health and Human Rights, and Global Health Law. From 1997-2003 Professor Taylor was a senior health policy and legal adviser at the World Health Organization in Geneva and was the senior legal adviser for negotiation of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. She has been legal consultant to numerous intergovernmental organizations, non-governmental organizations and states, including The World Bank, the World Health Organization, the Organization of American States, the Pan American Health Organization, the Overseas Development Council, the Framework Convention Alliance, Academy Health and the National Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids.  Dr. Taylor holds a J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley (Boalt Hall) School of Law and a masters and a doctorate in international law from Columbia University School of Law where she was a Ford Foundation Fellow in public international law. She has written extensively on global health law and policy concerns, including global tobacco control, global access to pain medication, women’s health, biotechnology, health and human rights, international health security, and communicable disease control. From 2000 to 2004 she was the Chair of the International Health Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law.