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Law, Policy, and Public Health: The Case of Coronavirus

Wednesday, February 19, 12:45-2:00 p.m.
Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge

As the coronavirus threat continues to grow, China, the United States, and the rest of the world are grappling with the global health, economic, and political stakes of the WHO-declared public health emergency. At this Forum, a diverse panel of experts will assess unfolding efforts to contain coronavirus and discuss the legal and policy issues faced by individual countries and the international community in dealing with the threat posed by epidemics and pandemics.

Co-hosted by the Reiss Center on Law and Security

Panelists:

, Former Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations; Science writer and Pulitzer Prize winner for coverage of Ebola outbreak in Zaire

Member, Center for Global Health Science and Security and Faculty Research Instructor, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Georgetown University; Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

, Jerome A. Cohen Visiting Professor of Law, ÈâÂþÎÝ School of Law (Spring 2020)

, Commissioner of Health, New York State; former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and former Assistant Director-General of the World Health Organization

, Distinguished Senior Fellow, Reiss Center on Law and Security and Adjunct Professor of Law, ÈâÂþÎÝ School of Law; former Homeland Security Advisor to President Obama (moderator)

Greenberg Lounge is accessible via lift. Any requests for, or questions or concerns about, accessibility accommodations for this event should be sent to Maegan Ciolino: ciolinom@mercury.law.nyu.edu