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COVID Triage
Posted: March 14, 2024
Susan M. Wolf, JD, Chair of the Consortium on Law and Values, co-authored a recent article appearing in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society critiquing state approaches to triage in the COVID-19 pandemic. The article on “COVID‐19 Triage Schemes to Face the Next Public Health Emergency” calls for improvements in triage to prepare for the next pandemic. The authors argue that the reluctance in the COVID pandemic to formally trigger triage despite crisis conditions and the emergence of state triage schemes disadvantaging vulnerable populations pose a significant problem that needs to… Read More
Michele Goodwin
Posted: March 11, 2024
Prof. Michele Goodwin from Georgetown Law Center – a collaborator on Consortium grants – spoke on “Dr. King and the Long Arc Toward Reproductive Freedom and Justice” at the University of Minnesota Law School’s 9th Annual MLK Convocation in honor of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Prof. Michele Bratcher Goodwin, JD, LLM, SJD, is the Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy and the Co-Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. Prof. Goodwin also serves on the Ethics & Public Policy… Read More
Alan Rozenshtein
Posted: March 6, 2024
The Consortium is excited to welcome Prof. Alan Rozenshtein, JD, as an Affiliate Faculty Member. Prof. Rozenshtein is an expert on cyberlaw and artificial intelligence, whose research has addressed critical issues in biomedicine, including pandemic surveillance and ransomware attacks in the healthcare sector. He is an Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Law School, a Senior Editor at Lawfare, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Scholars Strategy Network. He was previously an Affiliate with Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and… Read More
Arthur Lupia
Posted: March 7, 2024
An article on Trends in U.S. Public Confidence in Science and Opportunities for Progress led by Arthur Lupia, PhD (University of Michigan) with authors including Consortium Chair Susan M. Wolf, JD, was published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The article analyzes the U.S. public's confidence in science across time. The authors find that while confidence in science remains high overall, it has declined somewhat since early in the pandemic. The decline, however, is similar to that for other institutions. Data show that the public values the research community’… Read More