ASU Professors Awarded Public Health Law Research Grant

Timothy Lant, research director at ASU’s Decision Theater, and James G. Hodge Jr., the Lincoln Professor of Health Law and Ethics at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, have received a grant to examine the role law plays in critical public health emergencies, such as the H1N1 flu pandemic. 

Hodge, director of the College’s Public Health Law and Policy Program, and Lant, an affiliate faculty member in the program, were awarded a $150,000 grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s new Public Health Law Research program. They will use the 18-month award to examine the types of legal decisions that must be made rapidly during public health emergencies and the science behind those decisions.