B.A., The Johns Hopkins University
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
M.P.H., The Johns Hopkins University

Lance A. Gable, J.D., M.P.H., is an Assistant Professor of Law at Wayne Law where he teaches Public Health Law, Bioethics and the Law, Torts, and other Health Law courses. Professor Gable is also a Scholar with the Centers for Law and the Public’s Health: A Collaborative at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities, which is a Collaborating Center of the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Professor Gable specializes in public health law, ethics, and policy; bioterrorism and emergency preparedness; mental health; international human rights; genetics and genomics; research ethics; and information privacy.

Professor Gable is the Chair of the Wayne State University Clinical and Translational Research Ethics Workgroup and a member of the Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee. He has helped develop course materials for the World Health Organization Diploma in International Human Rights and Mental Health and has worked as a human rights consultant for the Pan American Health Organization. 

Prior to joining the Wayne Law faculty, Professor Gable previously served as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Law and the Public’s Health; as the Project Director for the Emergency System for Advance Registration of Volunteer Health Professionals (ESAR-VHP) – Legal and Regulatory Issues project, administered by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA); as the Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in Bioterrorism Law and Policy at the Center for Law and the Public’s Health; and as a health care law attorney at a major international law firm in Washington, D.C.

Professor Gable received a juris doctor from Georgetown University Law Center and a master's degree in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He also received a bachelor's degree with a double major in political science and biology from the Johns Hopkins University.

http://ssrn.com/author=366534

• 
  Realizing the Right to Health (Rueffer & Rub) 2009 Gable co-authored a chapter with Lawrence O. Gostin titled "Mental Health as a Human Right"
  
  

  From Swisshumanrightsbook.com: "Realizing the right to health requires a strong focus on strengthening health care systems and transforming health systems for women. Taking a human rights approach to health means understanding the underlying social determinants of this right, as well as how to ensure the right to health is realized in times of emergency and armed conflict, and for all groups in society, including migrants and refugees, LGBTI persons, prisoners and detainees, and others. In this third volume of the Swiss Human Rights Book series, leading international experts in human rights and health address issues such as access to essential medicine, HIV/AIDS, trade and health, SARS and malaria, and human rights approaches to other key health challenges. They address the role of governments, non-state actors and healthcare practitioners, the responses of multilateral institutions, and highlight some of the most promising strategies for realizing the right to health."

  
  Click here for more info.
• 
  Research With High-Risk Populations: Balancing Science, Ethics, and Law (American Psychological Association) 2009 Edited by David Buchanan, DrPH; Celia B. Fisher, PhD; and Lance Gable, JD, MPH
  
  

  Research With High-Risk Populations provides guidance to social scientists regarding their ethical and legal responsibilities to respond appropriately to threats of harm that may arise during the course of data collection. Contributing authors include leading researchers, ethicists, lawyers, and Institutional Review Board (IRB) members from across the country who illuminate the complexities of the issues using case studies from their own research projects. This collection of ethical and legal analyses examines both the challenges of conducting research designed to responsibly gain a better understanding of the origins of serious health problems, and the moral and legal obligations of researchers who learn of threats of violence in the course of pursuing the primary objectives of the research. This book maps out an appropriate balance between protecting human research participants from harm and generating new scientific knowledge. It will enable researchers and IRB members to become more knowledgeable about the different ways of allowing valuable research to go forward, while minimizing the potential for harm and protecting all parties involved from undue harm and exploitation.
• 
  Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform (The World Bank Group) 2007 with co-authors Katrina Gamharter, Lawrence O. Gostin, James G. Hodge Jr., and Rudolf V. van Puymbroeck
  
  

  This book summarizes key legal and policy issues for 65 wide-ranging topics related to HIV/AIDS. The book shows how laws and regulations can either underpin or undermine good public health programs and responsible personal behaviors. It provides relevant “practice examples” (citing from actual laws and regulations) and offers selective lists of references. Laws relating to many areas of our lives--from intimate personal conduct to international travel--can contribute to stigma, discrimination, and exclusion, or can help remedy these inequities. In order to create a supportive legal framework for responding to HIV/AIDS, it is important that governments effectively address gaps and other problematic aspect in their legislation and regulatory systems.

Journal Articles

A Global Assessment of the Role of Law in the HIV/AIDS Pandemic, 123(3) Public Health 260-264 (2009) (with Lawrence O. Gostin and James G. Hodge, Jr.).

HIV/AIDS, Sexual and Reproductive Health, and the Law, 98(10) American Journal of Public Health 1779-1786 (2008) (with Lawrence O. Gostin and James G. Hodge, Jr.).

Global Mental Health: Changing Norms, Constant Rights, 9 Geo. J. Int’l Aff. 83-92 (Winter/Spring 2008) (with Lawrence O. Gostin).

A CDC Review of School Laws and Policies Concerning Child and Adolescent Health, 78 J. School Health 69-128 (2008) (with James G. Hodge, Jr. and Julie Samia Mair).

The Proliferation of Human Rights in Global Health Governance, 35 J. L. Med.& Ethics 534 (Winter 2007).

Public Goods, Private Data: History, Ethics, and the Uses of Identifiable Public Health Information 122 Public Health Reports 7 (Supplement 1 2007) (with Amy L. Fairchild, Lawrence O. Gostin, Ronald Bayer, Patricia Sweeney, and Rob Janssen).       

Risk Management in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina: Hospital Liability Associated with the Use of Volunteer Health Professionals During Emergencies, 10 Mich. St. Univ. J. Med. & L. 57 (2006) (with James G. Hodge, Jr., Stephanie H. Cálves, Elizabeth Meltzer, and Sara Kraner).

The Legal Framework for Meeting Surge Capacity Through the Use of Volunteer Health Professionals During Public Health Emergencies and Other Disasters, 22 J. Contemp. Health L. & Pol’y 5 (2006) (with James G. Hodge, Jr. and Stephanie H. Cálves).     

Legislating and Litigating Health Care Rights Around the World, 33 J.L. Med. & Ethics 636 (2005) (with Colleen M. Flood and Lawrence O. Gostin).

Mental Health and Due Process in the Americas: Protecting the Human Rights of Persons Involuntarily Admitted and Detained in Psychiatric Institutions, 18 Pan Amer. J. of Pub. Health 366 (2005) (with Javier Vásquez, Lawrence O. Gostin, and Heidi V. Jiménez).

Volunteer Health Professionals and Emergencies: Assessing and Transforming the Legal Environment, 3 Biosecurity and Bioterrorism 216 (2005) (with James G. Hodge, Jr. and Stephanie H. Cálves).

The Human Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities: A Global Perspective on the Application of Human Rights Principles to Mental Health, 63 Maryland L. Rev. 20 (2004) (with Lawrence O. Gostin).

When the Right to Health and the Right to Religion Conflict: A Human Rights Analysis, 12 Mich. St. J. Int’l L. 247 (2004) (with Lesley Stone and Tara Gingerich).

The Role of State Law in Protecting Human Subjects of Public Health Research and Practice, 31 J.L. Med. & Ethics 638 (2004) (with Scott Burris, Lesley Stone, and Zita Lazzarini).

Human Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities, in The Principles of Mental Health Law and Policy (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2009) (with Lawrence O. Gostin).

Mental Health as a Human Right, in Andrew Clapham, Mary Robinson, Claire Mahon, and Scott Jerbi (eds.), Realizing The Right to Health: Swiss Human Rights Book Volume III (Rüffer & Rub, forthcoming 2009) (with Lawrence O. Gostin).

Legal Challenges Raised by Non-intervention Research Conducted Under High-risk Circumstances, in David Buchanan, Celia B. Fisher, and Lance Gable (eds.), Research with High Risk Populations: Balancing Science, Ethics, and Law 47-74 (American Psychological Association, 2009).

Ethical and Legal Frameworks in Non-Intervention Research with High Risk Populations: Concluding Thoughts and Best Practices, in David Buchanan, Celia B. Fisher, and Lance Gable (eds.), Research with High Risk Populations: Balancing Science, Ethics, and Law 233-252 (American Psychological Association, 2009) (with David Buchanan and Celia B. Fisher).

Introduction, in David Buchanan, Celia B. Fisher, and Lance Gable (eds.), Research with High Risk Populations: Balancing Science, Ethics, and Law 3-21 (American Psychological Association, 2009) (with David Buchanan and Celia B. Fisher).

Public Health Law, in Stanley N. Katz (ed.) Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford University Press, 2009) (with Lawrence O. Gostin).    

Public Health Law and Biological Terrorism, in Beyond Anthrax: The Weaponization of Infectious Diseases 239-252. (Larry I. Lutwick & Suzanne M. Lutwick eds. 2008)(with James G. Hodge, Jr).