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James G. Hodge, Jr., JD, LL.M.
James G. Hodge, Jr., JD, LL.M.

    James G. Hodge, Jr., is an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he teaches Public Health and the Law and Global Health Law. In addition to his primary faculty appointment at JHSPH, Mr. Hodge is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he lectures in public health law, bioethics, international human rights, and health law and policy. He is the Executive Director of the Centers for Law and the Public's Health: A Collaborative at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities; and a Core Faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.

    Through his scholarly and applied work, Mr. Hodge delves into multiple areas of public health law, ethics, and human rights. The recipient of the 2006 Henrik L. Blum Award for Excellence in Health Policy from the American Public Health Association, he has drafted (with others) several public health law reform initiatives, including the Model State Public Health Information Privacy Act (MSPHPA), the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA), the Turning Point Model State Public Health Act (Turning Point Act), and the Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act (UEVHPA).

    His diverse, funded projects include work on (1) the legal framework underlying the use of volunteer health professionals during emergencies; (2) the compilation, study, and analysis of state genetics laws and policies as part of a multi-year NIH-funded project, (3) historical and legal bases underlying school vaccination programs, (4) international tobacco policy for the World Health Organization's Tobacco Free Initiative, (5) legal and ethical distinctions between public health practice and research; (6) legal underpinnings of partner notification and expedited partner therapies; and (7) public health law case studies in Virginia, New Hampshire, Oregon, Nebraska, Alaska, Montana, Michigan, Delaware, and elsewhere. He is a national expert on public health information privacy law and ethics, having consulted DHHS, CDC, CSTE, APHL, FDA, CMS, OHRP and others on privacy issues. Additional areas of research include HIV/AIDS, emergency legal preparedness, and human rights.

    Schedule28 Mar 2024