Govind Persad
I am an Associate Professor with Tenure at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law.
My health law research applies legal and philosophical methods to longstanding problems in bioethics and health policy. Recently, I have focused on the law and ethics of equitably allocating scarce medical resources. I am also interested in health insurance, pharmaceutical pricing and innovation policy, and the regulation of human subjects research.
In addition to my scholarly research, I write the Law and Ethics column for the American Society for Clinical Oncology's ASCO Post. I was a Public Impact Fellow at the University of Denver and have published op-eds in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Boston Globe. I also serve on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Scrivner Institute of Public Policy at the University's Josef Korbel School of International Studies.
I earned a JD from Stanford Law School and a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University, where I was a Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow and a Student Fellow at the Center for Law and the Biosciences. After completing my JD, I clerked for the Hon. Carlos F. Lucero, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Prior to graduate school, I was a fellow at the Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health.
