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Alumni Spotlight
Lawrence Gostin '71
Lawrence Gostin '71 is an internationally recognized scholar in law and public health. He is Professor of Law at Georgetown University; Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University; and the Director of the Center for Law & the Public's Health at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities (CDC Collaborating Center Promoting Public Health Through Law). He is also the Co-Director of the Georgetown/Johns Hopkins Program on Law and Public Health. Professor Gostin is Faculty Affiliate for the Kennedy Institute of Ethics and the Steering and Executive Committees of the Institute for Health Care Research and Policy of Georgetown. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University.
What are you doing now: Chair, National Academy of Science, Committee on Genomics in Population Health in the 21st Century; Leading revision process of the WHO International Health Regulations; Named John Carroll Research Professor, Georgetown University
Major: Psychology
Favorite class at Brockport: Political Science
Favorite professor at Brockport: Professors Duncan, Lindauer, Fink
Most memorable Brockport moment: Giving the commencement address in 1994
Most interesting life experience: Being a husband and father
Most famous person you have met: President Clinton
Last book read: Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
CD most likely to find in your stereo: Brahams
Favorite vacation spot: Alaska
Family: Wife, Jean; daughters Bryn (25), Kieran (23)
What you want to be doing next year: Just what I am doing now!
What you want to be doing in 20 years: Walking on the Fells of the English Lake District (my wife's home)
Message to the students of today: Of all of the places that I have lived and learned (Oxford, Harvard, and Duke Universities), Brockport is my favorite. Savor the experience.
In addition to all of the above, Professor Gostin is an elected lifetime Member of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences (IOM/NAS). For the IOM/NAS, he serves on the Board on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, the Institutional Review Board, and several expert study committees. He served on the IOM's Committee on The Future of the Public's Health and currently serves as Chair of the IOM Committee on Genomics in Population Health in the 21st Century. He is also an elected lifetime Fellow of the Hastings Center. He is appointed by the Secretary for Health and Human Services to serve on the Advisory Council of the Office of AIDS Research, National Institutes of Health. Professor Gostin also consults for the World Health Organization, UNAIDS, and the Council of International Organizations for Medical Sciences.
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