Michele Goodwin is an internationally acclaimed scholar of health policy and constitutional law discourse. She directed the first American Bar Association accredited health law program in the United States and established the first law center focused on race and bioethics. Her scholarship has forged new ways of thinking in organ transplant policy; assisted reproductive technologies; reproductive health, rights and justice; and civil liberties. She is also host of the popular podcast On The Issues with Michele Goodwin at Ms. Magazine and the executive producer of Ms. Studios. In this conversation, Goodwin shared lessons learned from her extensive research and scholarship and commitment to advancing health equity in the United States and around the world.
This event was hosted through Georgetown University’s Conversations in Health: Global to Local class, which invites global health professionals to Georgetown’s campus to engage in discussions regarding their career paths and expertise.
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Michele Goodwin is the Linda D. & Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Constitutional Law and Global Health Policy at Georgetown Law, where she is also the co-faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, overseeing the institute’s eight initiatives and over 100 experts. Trained in sociology and anthropology, Goodwin has conducted field research in Asia, Africa, Europe, and North America, focusing on human trafficking (marriage, sex, organs, and other biologics). Professor Goodwin’s commentaries appear in The New York Times, The Atlantic, L.A. Times, Newsweek, CNN, Christian Science Monitor, and JAMA, among others. Her books include Policing The Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood (2020); Biotechnology, Bioethics, and The Law (2015); Baby Markets: Money and the Politics of Creating Families (2010); and Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Body Parts (2006). She received her juris doctorate from Boston College Law School and her doctor of juridical science from the University of Wisconsin.
John T. Monahan is a professor in the Department of Medicine, a senior advisor for global health to Georgetown University’s President John J. DeGioia, a senior fellow at the McCourt School of Public Policy, and a senior scholar at the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown Law.