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  • 2026 - Research.com Law in United States Leader Award
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  • 2006 - Adam Yarmolinsky Medal, National Academy of Medicine (NAM)
  • 2000 - Member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)

Overview

Lawrence O. Gostin is affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States and has contributed extensively to public health research, particularly within the context of global health security and infectious diseases. Their work spans multiple disciplines, including general health professions, sociology and political science, organizational behavior, and human resource management.

Gostin's research topics focus on global public health policies and epidemiology, global security and public health, public health policies and education, vaccine coverage and hesitancy, viral infections and outbreak research, human rights and development, and COVID-19 epidemiological studies.

The scientist has published in several prominent venues, with frequent contributions to:

  • JAMA
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • JAMA Health Forum
  • The Lancet
  • The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics

Among recent publications by or including Gostin as author or co-author are:

  • Governmental Public Health Powers During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, JAMA)
  • Responding to Covid-19: How to Navigate a Public Health Emergency Legally and Ethically (2020, The Hastings Center Report)
  • A global survey of potential acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine (2020, Nature Medicine)
  • The Novel Coronavirus Originating in Wuhan, China (2020, JAMA)
  • A survey of COVID-19 vaccine acceptance across 23 countries in 2022 (2023, Nature Medicine)

Gostin has collaborated frequently with co-authors such as Michael Berkwits, Mary Mcdermott, Jody Zylke, Annette Flanagin, and a managing editor.

The scientist has authored books published by Harvard University Press and Stanford University Press eBooks, including:

  • Global Health Security (2021)
  • Biosecurity in the Global Age (2020)

Lawrence O. Gostin has been recognized through awards including the Adam Yarmolinsky Medal from the National Academy of Medicine in 2006 and election as a Member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2000.

Best Publications

  • A global survey of potential acceptance of a COVID-19 vaccine.

    Jeffrey V. Lazarus;Scott C. Ratzan;Adam Palayew;Lawrence O. Gostin

  • The Novel Coronavirus Originating in Wuhan, China: Challenges for Global Health Governance.

    Alexandra L. Phelan;Alexandra L. Phelan;Rebecca Katz;Lawrence O. Gostin

  • Public Health Law

    Lawrence O. Gostin;Lindsay F. Wiley

  • Public Health Ethics: Mapping the Terrain

    James F. Childress;Ruth R. Faden;Ruth D. Gaare;Lawrence O. Gostin

  • Will Ebola change the game? Ten essential reforms before the next pandemic. the report of the Harvard-LSHTM Independent Panel on the Global Response to Ebola

    Suerie Moon;Devi Sridhar;Muhammad A Pate;Ashish K Jha

  • Global health security: the wider lessons from the west African Ebola virus disease epidemic

    David L Heymann;Lincoln Chen;Keizo Takemi;David P Fidler

  • Governmental Public Health Powers During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Stay-at-home Orders, Business Closures, and Travel Restrictions.

    Lawrence O. Gostin;Lindsay F. Wiley

  • Human rights violations of people with mental and psychosocial disabilities: an unresolved global crisis

    Natalie Drew;Michelle Funk;Stephen Tang;Jagannath Lamichhane

  • Genetic Discrimination: The Use of Genetically Based Diagnostic and Prognostic Tests by Employers and Insurers

    Lawrence O. Gostin

  • Global health law

    Lawrence O. Gostin

  • Health information privacy.

    Lawrence O Gostin

  • Global Health and the Law

    Lawrence O. Gostin;Devi Sridhar

  • The human rights of persons with mental disabilities: a global perspective on the application of human rights principles to mental health.

    Lawrence O. Gostin;Lance Gable

  • The law and the public's health: a study of infectious disease law in the United States.

    Lawrence O. Gostin;Scott Burris;Zita Lazzarini

  • Informed Consent for Population-Based Research Involving Genetics

    Laura M. Beskow;Wylie Burke;Jon F. Merz;Patricia A. Barr

  • The new International Health Regulations: an historic development for international law and public health.

    David P. Fidler;Lawrence O. Gostin

  • The legal determinants of health: harnessing the power of law for global health and sustainable development

    Lawrence O Gostin;John T Monahan;Jenny Kaldor;Mary DeBartolo

  • The built environment and its relationship to the public's health: The legal framework

    Wendy Collins Perdue;Lesley A. Stone;Lawrence O. Gostin

  • What Does Social Justice Require For The Public’s Health? Public Health Ethics And Policy Imperatives

    Lawrence O. Gostin;Madison Powers

  • Legal issues concerning electronic health information: privacy, quality, and liability.

    James G. Hodge;Lawrence O. Gostin;Peter D. Jacobson

  • Reframing the Opioid Epidemic as a National Emergency.

    Lawrence O. Gostin;James G. Hodge;Sarah A. Noe

  • Beyond the HIPAA Privacy Rule: Enhancing Privacy, Improving Health Through Research

    Sharyl J Nass;Laura A Levit;Lawrence O Gostin

  • Ethical and legal challenges posed by severe acute respiratory syndrome: implications for the control of severe infectious disease threats

    Lawrence O. Gostin;Ronald Bayer;Amy L. Fairchild

  • A retrospective and prospective analysis of the west African Ebola virus disease epidemic: robust national health systems at the foundation and an empowered WHO at the apex

    Lawrence O Gostin;Eric A Friedman

  • The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: Planning for and Response to Bioterrorism and Naturally Occurring Infectious Diseases

    Lawrence Ogalthorpe Gostin;Jason W. Sapsin;Jason W. Sapsin;Stephen P. Teret;Stephen P. Teret;Scott Burris;Scott Burris

  • Code of Federal Regulations Title 45: Public Welfare Part 46: Protection of Human Subjects

    Lawrence O Gostin;Cori Vanchieri;Andrew Pope

  • Health and human rights.

    Jonathan M. Mann;Lawrence Ogalthorpe Gostin;Sofia Gruskin;Troyen Brennan

  • What Does Social Justice Require For The Public's Health? Public Health Ethics And Policy Imperatives Social justice demands more than fair distribution of resources in extreme public health emergencies.

    Lawrence O. Gostin;Madison Powers

Frequent Co-Authors

James G. Hodge
James G. Hodge Arizona State University
Benjamin Mason Meier
Benjamin Mason Meier University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Devi Sridhar
Devi Sridhar University of Edinburgh
Scott Burris
Scott Burris Temple University
Gorik Ooms
Gorik Ooms Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp
Peter D. Jacobson
Peter D. Jacobson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Ronald Bayer
Ronald Bayer Columbia University
Alicia Ely Yamin
Alicia Ely Yamin Harvard University
Martin McKee
Martin McKee London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Michelle A. Williams
Michelle A. Williams Harvard University

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