The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced Govind Persad, JD, PhD, as the 2025 NAM Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics. Prof. Persad is an Associate Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder School of Law.
Prof. Persad’s scholarship engages with the legal and ethical dimensions of health insurance, domestic and international healthcare financing, priority-setting in healthcare systems, and markets in healthcare services. He is dedicated to addressing ethical challenges in health policy, including scarce resource allocation, drug pricing, and health system design.
The Fellowship was established in 2015 to enable early-career bioethics scholars to participate actively in the work of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and to further their careers as future bioethics leaders. As the 2025-2027 Greenwall Fellow, Prof. Persad will have the opportunity to collaborate with researchers, policy experts, and clinicians from across the country and provide evidence-based guidance to policymakers, academic leaders, healthcare administrators, and the public.
“I look forward to learning more about how bioethical research can inform decisions about health insurance, pharmaceutical policy, and other important issues by interacting with national health policymakers and leaders who are shaping and navigating America’s rapidly changing health policy landscape,” Prof. Persad said. “This work will enable me to design research projects and build collaborations to enable better policies, including in my own state of Colorado.”
Prof. Persad will be the sixth NAM Greenwall Fellow. Sanket Dhruva, MD, an Assistant Professor of cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine; staff physician at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System; and the 2023-2025 NAM Greenwall Fellow, said he’s grateful for the opportunity the Fellowship has provided him.
“The experience has been beyond wonderful, participating in important consensus studies, receiving incredible mentorship, and building multi-disciplinary professional relationships that will hopefully help me to make a positive difference in health care and health policy with a bioethics lens,” Dr. Dhruva said.
You can learn more about Prof. Persad, the NAM Greenwall Fellowship in Bioethics, and the NAM fellowship program here.