Govind Persad will contribute to Bill of Health’s symposium on the 2015 notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on human subjects regulations.
Govind is a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University and will be an Assistant Professor (beginning 2016) in the Department of Health Policy and Management and Berman Center for Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University. His research is at the intersection of political philosophy, applied ethics, and health law.
Govind has been a visiting scholar at the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a JD/PhD from Stanford, where he was a student fellow at Stanford’s Center on Law and Biosciences; he was a pre-doctoral fellow at the Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health.
Representative publications:
- Govind Persad, Should Research Ethics Encourage the Production of Cost-Effective Interventions? in Ethics and Governance of Biomedical Research: Theory and Practice, eds. Marcel Mertz and Daniel Strech, forthcoming 2016.
- Govind Persad, Priority-Setting, Cost-Effectiveness, and the Affordable Care Act, American Journal of Law and Medicine 41.1 (2015): 119-66.
- Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Steven Joffe, Christine Grady, David Wendler, and Govind Persad, Clinical Research: Should Patients Pay to Play? Science Translational Medicine 7 (2015): 298ps16.
- Govind Persad, Democratic Deliberation and the Ethical Review of Human Subjects Research, in Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future, eds. I. Glenn Cohen and Holly Fernandez Lynch (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2014).
