Center for Global Health Faculty

James G. Hodge

Professor - Adjunct

Executive Director, Centers for Law and the Public's Health

Academic Degrees

Departmental Affiliation

Name:

Health Policy and Management

Affiliation Type:

Primary

Division:

Health Policy

Departmental Address

Hampton House 513

Contact Information

Email:: jhodge+jhsph.edu
Phone:: 410-955-7624
Fax:: 410-614-9055
Link:: Personal Website
Link:: SciVal Experts Research Profile

Research and Professional Experience

James G. Hodge, Jr., J.D., LL.M., is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he teaches Public Health and the Law and Global Health Law and Policy. In addition to his primary faculty appointment at JHSPH, Professor Hodge is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center where he lectures in public health law, bioethics, international human rights, and health law and policy. He is the Executive Director of the Centers for Law and the Public’s Health: A Collaborative at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities; a Core Faculty member and former Greenwall Fellow of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics; and a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins Center for Global Health.

Through his scholarly and applied work, Professor Hodge delves into multiple areas of public health law, ethics, and human rights. The recipient of the 2006 Henrik L. Blum Award for Excellence in Health Policy from the American Public Health Association, he has drafted (with others) several public health law reform initiatives, including the Model State Public Health Information Privacy Act (MSPHPA), the Model State Emergency Health Powers Act (MSEHPA), the Turning Point Model State Public Health Act (Turning Point Act), and the Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act (UEVHPA).

His diverse, funded projects include work on (1) the legal framework underlying the use of volunteer health professionals during emergencies; (2) legal and ethical issues concenring mental health preparedness in emergencies; (3) legal issues concerning the prevention and control of tuberculosis; (4) the compilation, study, and analysis of state genetics laws and policies as part of a multi-year NIH-funded project; (5) historical and legal bases underlying school vaccination programs, (6) international tobacco policy for the World Health Organization's Tobacco Free Initiative, (7) legal and ethical distinctions between public health practice and research; (8) legal underpinnings of partner notification and expedited partner therapies; (9) obesity laws and policies; and (10) public health law case studies in VA, MI, NH, OR, NE, AK, MT, MI, DE, and elsewhere. He is a national expert on public health information privacy law and ethics, having consulted CDC on its creation of a Health Information Privacy Office and with DHHS, IOM, CSTE, APHL, FDA, CMS, and OHRP and others on privacy issues. Additional areas of research include new federalism, HIV/AIDS, and human rights.

Keywords

public health law, privacy, vaccines, global health, emergency preparedness, model laws, health policy, federalism, genetics, bioethics, human rights

Honors and Awards

Henrik L. Blum Award for Excellence in Health Policy, presented by the Community Health Planning and Policy Development Section, American Public Health Association (APHA) (2006)

Thomas Bradbury Chetwood, S.J. Prize for Most Distinguished Academic Performance - General Masters of Laws (LL.M.), Georgetown University Law Center (1997)

Selected Publications

Meier, BM, Hodge, JG, Gebbie, K. Transitions in state public health law: Comparative analysis of state public health law reform efforts following the Turning Point Model State Public Health Act. American Journal of Public Health 2009; 99(3): 423-430.

Barnett, DJ, Taylor, HA, Hodge, JG, Links JM. Resource allocation on the frontlines of public health preparedness and response: Report of a summit on legal and ethical Issues. Public Health Reports 2009; 124(2): 295-303.

Hodge, JG, Anderson, ED. Principles and practice of legal triage during public health emergencies. NYU Ann. Surv. Am. L. 2008; 64(2): 249-291.

Rutkow, L, Vernick, JS, Hodge, JG, Teret, SP. Preemption and the obesity epidemic: State and local menu labeling laws and the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 2008; 36:772-789.

Gable, LA, Gostin, LO, Hodge, JG. Legal aspects of HIV/AIDS in reproductive and sexual health. American Journal of Public Health 2008; 98:10: 1779-1786.

Hodge, JG, Brown, EF, Bhattacharya, D, Wiley, L. Expedited partner therapies for sexually transmitted diseases: Legal and policy approaches. Suffolk Journal of Health and Biomedical Law 2008; 4: 1-29.

Hodge, JG, Garcia, AM, Shah, S. Legal themes concerning obesity regulation in the United States: Theory and practice. Australian and New Zealand Health Policy 2008; 5:14-28.

Carpenter, M, Hodge, JG, Pepe, R. Deploying and using volunteer health practitioners in response to emergencies. American Journal of Disaster Medicine 2008; 3(4):17-23.

Hodge, JG, Mair, JS, Gable, LA. A CDC Review of School Laws and Policies Affecting Child and Adolescent Health. Journal of School Health 2008; 78(2): iii-128.

Gostin, LO, Hodge, JG. Global Health Law, Ethics, and Policy: Preface. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 2008; 35:4:519-526.

Vernick, J, Hodge, JG, Webster, D. The ethics of restrictive licensing for handguns: Comparing the United States and Canadian approaches to handgun regulation. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 2008; 35:4: 657-679.

Hodge, JG, Pulver, A, Hogben, M, Bhattacharya, D, Brown, EF. Expedited partner therapy: Assessing the legal environment. American Journal of Public Health 2008; 98(2): 23-28.

Gebbie, K, Hodge, JG, Koo, D, Sweeney, PM, Meier, BM, Winget, P, Keith P, Barrett, D. Advancing legal competencies for public health emergency preparedness. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 2008; Special Supp: 52-56.

Hodge, JG, Gebbie, K, Hoke C, Fenstersheib, M, Hoffman, S, Lynk, M. Assessing legal competencies for public health emergency preparedness. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 2008; Special Supp: 28-35.

Hodge, JG, O’Connell, J. Global health law: Conceptions and challenges. ABA Health eSource 2008; 4:4

Hodge, JG. Protecting the public’s health following the Virginia Tech tragedy: Issues of law and policy. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 2007; 1: (Supp. 1) S43-45.

Barnett, DJ, Omer SB, Fidler, DP, Balicer, RD, Hodge, JG, Letter to the Editor, Global triage of resources needed. British Medical Journal 2007; 334:1071

Hodge, JG, Gostin, LO, Vernick, JS. The Pandemic and All-Hazards Preparedness Act: Improving public health emergency response. JAMA 2007; 297: 1708-1711.

Hodge, JG, Pepe RP, Henning, WH. Voluntarism in the wake of Hurricane Katrina: The Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 2007; 1:1: 44-50.

Meier, BM, Gebbie, K, Hodge, JG. Contrasting experiences of state public health law reform pursuant to the Turning Point Model State Public Health Act. Public Health Reports 2007; July-August 122: 559-563.

Hodge, JG. The flaw of informed consent. Open Peer Commentary. American Journal of Bioethics 2007; 7:3: 52-53.

Hodge, JG, Bhattacharya, D, Garcia, A. Assessing criminal liability of volunteer healthcare workers in emergencies. American Journal of Disaster Medicine 2006; 1(1): 12-17.

Hodge, JG. Legal triage during public health emergencies and disasters. Administrative Law Review 2006; 58(3): 627-644.

Hodge, JG. Law as a tool for improving the health of children and adolescents in schools. Journal of School Health 2006 76(9);442-445.

Hodge, JG. Legal issues concerning volunteer health professionals and emergencies: Lessons from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the Gulf Coast region. Louisville Bar Briefs 2006; 06-03: 16-17.

Hodge, JG, Calves, S, Gable, LA, Meltzer E, Kraner S. Risk management in the wake of hurricanes and other disasters: Hospital civil liability arising from the use of volunteer health professionals during emergencies. Michigan State University Journal of Medicine and Law 2006; 10(1): 57-86.

Hodge, JG. The legal and ethical fiction of “pure” confidentiality. Open Peer Commentary. American Journal of Bioethics 2006; 6: 2: 21-22.

Hodge, JG. Legal issues concerning volunteer health professionals and the hurricane-related emergencies in the Gulf Coast region. Public Health Reports 2006; March-April 121: 205-207.

Hodge, JG, O’Connell, J. The legal environment underlying influenza vaccine allocation and distribution strategies. Journal of Public Health Practice and Management 2006; 12(4): 340-348.

Hodge, JG, Gable, LA, Gostin, L.O. The deployment and use of volunteer health professionals during the Gulf Coast emergencies. Transformations 2006; Winter: 14-15.

Hodge, JG, Gostin, LO, Gebbie, K, Erickson, DL. Transforming public health law: The Turning Point Model State Public Health Act. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 2006; 34:1: 77-84.

Hodge, JG, Gable, LA, Calves, S. The legal framework for meeting surge capacity through the use of volunteer health professionals during public health emergencies and other disasters. Journal of Contemporary Health Law and Policy 2006; 22: 5-71.

Biviano, M, Duley, M, Omer A, Hodge, JG. Abstract -Building hospital-ready medical surge capacity for disasters. Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 2005; 20:3: 158s.

Hodge, JG, Gable, LA, Calves, S. Volunteer health professionals and emergencies: Assessing and transforming the legal environment. Biosecurity and Bioterrorism 2005; 3:3: 216-223.

Murphy, AM, Hinrichs, SH, Fox, P, Stier, D, Hodge, JG. Community and interjurisdictional preparedness. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 2005; 33: 4: Supp. 73-76.

Hodge, JG. Jacobson v. Massachusetts: Alternate perspectives in 2005. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 2005; 33: 4: Supp. 26.

Hodge, JG, Mount JK, Reed JF, Couig, M. Scope of practice for public health professionals and volunteers. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 2005; 33: 4: Supp. 53-54.

Hodge, JG, Brown, EF. Exchanging genetic data for public health practice and human subjects research: Implications for medical and public health practitioners. Personalized Medicine 2005; 2:3: 259-268.

Hodge, JG, O’Connell, J. West Nile Virus: Legal responses that further environmental health. Journal of Environmental Health 2005; 68:1: 44-47.

Hodge, JG, An enhanced approach to distinguishing public health practice and human subjects research. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 2005; 33:1: 125-141.

Hodge, JG, Stone, L. The Center for Law and the Public’s Health: Using law, policy, ethics, and human rights to support domestic and international public health. Public Health Law Association Reporter 2005; 2: 1: 6-7.

Hodge, JG, Gostin, L.O. Improving education in public health law through the Turning Point Model State Public Health Act. Transformations 2005; 6:3: 8-9.

Hodge, JG. Checklists on legal preparedness for public health emergencies. Journal of Environmental Health 2005; 67:8: 62.

Hodge, JG, Brady, MJ, Kutler, K. How states are using the Turning Point Model State Public Health Act. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 2005; 32: 4: Supp. 97-99.

Hodge, JG, Gostin, KG. Challenging themes in American health information privacy and the public’s health: historical and modern assessments. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 2005; 32: 4: 670-679.

Hodge, JG, Conference report: Implications for genomics and public health. Personalized Medicine 2005; 1: 1: 23-25.

Middaugh, JP, Hodge, JG, Cartter, ML. The ethics of public health surveillance. Letter to the Editor. Science 2004; 304: 681-682.

Hodge, JG, Eber G. Tobacco control legislation: tools for public health improvement. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 2004; 32:3: 516-523.

Hodge, JG. Brown, E., O’Connell, J. The HIPAA privacy rule and bioterrorism prevention, planning, and response. Biosecurity and Bioterrorism 2004; 2:2: 73-80.

Drociuk, D., Gibson, JJ, Hodge, JG. Health information privacy and other legal perspectives concerning syndromic surveillance. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2004; 53 (Supp.): 221-225.

Kamoie, B., Hodge, JG. HIPAA’s implications for public health policy and practice. Public Health Reports 2004; 119: 216-219.

Hodge, JG. Health information privacy and public health. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 2004; 31: 4: 663-671.

Hodge, JG. Ethical issues concerning genetic testing and screening in public health. American J. of Medical Ethics 2004; 125:1: 66-70.