James G. Hodge Jr., J.D., LL.M., is the Lincoln Professor of Health Law and Ethics at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, where he also serves as director of the Public Health Law Network’s Western Region Office and ASU’s Public Health Law and Policy Program. He is a faculty fellow at the Center for Law, Science & Innovation and an affiliate global health professor in the School of Human Evolution & Social Change. He is also a senior scholar at the Centers for Law and the Public’s Health: A Collaborative at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities.

The recipient of the 2006 Henrik L. Blum Award for Excellence in Health Policy from the American Public Health Association, Professor Hodge’s diverse funded projects include work on emergency legal preparedness; state genetics laws and policies; historical and legal bases underlying school vaccination programs; international tobacco policy for the World Health Organization; legal and ethical distinctions between public health practice and research; model public health laws and case studies in multiple states; and public health information privacy law and policy.