Lance Gable
Assistant Professor of Law
Office Address: Room 3269
Telephone:  (313) 577-9774
E-mail:  lancegable@wayne.edu
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GABLE IN THE NEWS

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

PROFILE:
Lance A. Gable, JD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School where he teaches Public Health Law, Bioethics and the Law, Torts, and other Health Law subjects.  Professor Gable is also a Scholar with the Center for Law and the Public’s Health at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities, 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 has authored or co-authored numerous publications on topics related to public health law and policy. Recent publications include:

Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform (World Bank, 2007) (with Katharina Gamharter, Lawrence O. Gostin, James G. Hodge, Jr., and Rudolf V. Van Puymbroeck)

The Proliferation of Human Rights and Global Health Governance, Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (forthcoming Winter 2007)

Global Mental Health: Changing Norms, Constant Rights, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (forthcoming 2007) (with Lawrence O. Gostin)

A Review of School Laws and Policies Concerning Child and Adolescent Health  Journal of School Health  (forthcoming 2008) (with James G. Hodge, Jr. and Julie Mair)

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).

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 and Stephanie H. Cálves,).

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).

Professor Gable is an editor of and contributor to the forthcoming book, Ethical and Legal Issues in Research with High Risk Populations: Addressing Threats of Suicide, Child Abuse, and Violence (American Psychological Association, 2008) (with David Buchanan and Celia Fisher).

Prior to joining the Wayne State 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, DC.

Professor Gable received a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center and a Masters in Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He also received a Bachelors Degree with a double major in political science and biology from the Johns Hopkins University.