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Prof. Lawrence Gostin (left) was joined by Dr. Anthony S. Fauci (right) at “Preserving Health and Humanity Now: A Festschrift in Honor of Professor Lawrence O. Gostin.”

Dr. Anthony Fauci, Top Public Health Experts Pay Tribute to Professor Lawrence Gostin at “Preserving Health and Humanity Now” Symposium

November 7, 2024 Campus News Faculty Health Law

Hundreds of students, scholars and experts gathered to discuss pressing issues in public health law and celebrate Professor Lawrence Gostin's pioneering contributions to the field at "Preserving Health and Humanity Now," a symposium hosted on Oct. 28 by Georgetown Law's O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law.

Georgetown Law, University of Hong Kong Co-Host Conference on Intellectual Property, COVID-19 and Tackling Global Health Inequity

November 29, 2021 Health Law Impacting Change International & Comparative Law Technology, Communication, and Intellectual Property

Last Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) designated an emergent COVID-19 strain as a "variant of concern" and gave it the name "omicron." This news is not only upending international travel and stock markets, but also underscores the need to expedite vaccination in low-income countries.

New Faculty: Professor Yael Cannon

August 26, 2019 Faculty Health Law

The summer before college, Professor Yael Cannon volunteered through AmeriCorps with a food bank in Washington, D.C., driving a van to summer camps and public housing complexes, bringing food to low-income children who were no longer getting meals at school.

Brian Wallach (L'07) founded a nonprofit, I AM ALS, after being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

Brian Wallach (L’07): Combining Forces in the Fight Against ALS

August 8, 2019 Health Law Impacting Change Our Alumni

In November 2017, doctors handed Brian Wallach (L’07) a diagnosis that no one in their thirties expects to hear: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).
But Wallach, a corporate partner at Skadden who worked for four years as a federal prosecutor, is not about to let anyone or anything determine the course of his own life. In January 2019, he launched a patient-led nonprofit called I AM ALS.