Faculty Scholars Program

Govind Persad, JD, PhD

Class of 2021
  • Associate Professor
University of Colorado Law School
About
Scholar Project

Govind Persad is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Law School. His research applies bioethical and distributive justice frameworks to law in order to address problems at the interface of health law and policy, including the allocation of scarce medical resources; pharmaceutical pricing and access; health insurance design; and the mitigation of health disparities. He also has interests in the ethics and regulation of human subjects research, in comparative professional ethics, and in the legal and ethical issues presented by new biotechnologies such as gene editing and neuroscientific interventions.

Prof. Persad has authored over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters. His recent scholarship appears in law journals including the Michigan Law Review, Iowa Law Review, and Emory Law Journal as well as peer-reviewed journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, JAMA, and Science. He is the 2025-2027 Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics at the National Academy of Medicine and received the 2022 Baruch A. Brody Award in Bioethics.

Prof. Persad holds a JD and a PhD in philosophy from Stanford University. Prior to joining the University of Colorado faculty, he was on the faculties of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health; was a Junior Faculty Fellow at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business; and clerked for the Hon. Carlos Lucero, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Prior to graduate school, he completed a postbaccalaureate fellowship at the Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health.

For more information, visit: https://www.colorado.edu/law/govind-persad

Evaluating and Rethinking Financial Risk Protection in Health Care Systems: Framework Development and Analysis of Contemporary Health Insurance Options

Grant Cycle: 2017-2018

Health care systems increasingly aim to protect people against financial as well as health risks. Professor Persad’s project will address three questions: (1) Which financial risks should health systems protect against? (2) Why should they protect against those risks? (3) How should they protect against them? This project aims to answer the first two questions by examining how potential definitions of financial risk differ and how they connect with ethical values. It then aims to answer the third by using legal and policy analysis.

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