JD, Georgetown University Law Center
MPH, Johns Hopkins University
BA, Johns Hopkins University

Lance Gable, J.D., M.P.H., teaches Public Health Law, Bioethics and the Law, Torts, and other health law subjects at the Wayne State University Law School. 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 affiliated with World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Professor Gable’s research addresses the overlap between law, policy, ethics, health and science. He has published journal articles on a diverse array of topics including public health law, ethics, and policy; international human rights; bioterrorism and emergency preparedness; mental health; research ethics; and information privacy. He is also co-editor and co-author respectively of two books: Research with High Risk Populations: Balancing Science, Ethics and the Law (American Psychological Association, 2009, with Buchanan and Fisher) and Legal Aspects of HIV/AIDS: A Guide for Policy and Law Reform (World Bank Group, 2007, with Gamharter, Gostin, Hodge, and Van Puymbroeck).

Professor Gable currently is the principal investigator for the project “Developing Ethical Guidelines for the Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources During Public Health Emergencies in Michigan.” In addition, he is the co-chair of the Wayne State University Clinical and Transnational Research Ethics Workgroup and co-chair of the Wayne State University 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 served as a senior fellow at the Center for Law and the Public’s Health in Washington D.C. He was 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). He was also the Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in Bioterrorism Law and Policy at the Center for Law and the Public’s Health and practiced as a health care law attorney at a major international firm in Washington, DC.

Professor Gable received a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and a M.P.H. from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He also received a B.A. in political science and biology from Johns Hopkins University.

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  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.
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  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

"Global Health Rights: Employing Human Rights to Develop and Implement the Framework Convention on Global Health," Vol. 15(1) Health and Human Rights 17-31 (2013) (with Benjamin Mason Meier).

 "Global Public Health Legal Responses to H1N1," ­­39 J. L. Med.& Ethics 46-50 (Supplement 1 2011) (with Brooke Courtney, Robert Gatter, and Eleanor D. Kinney).

"Protecting the Mental Health of First Responders: Legal and Ethical Considerations," 39 J. L. Med.& Ethics 56-59 (Supplement 1 2011) (with Lainie Rutkow and Jonathan M. Links).

"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).

"Rights Based Approaches to Public Health Systems" in Rights Based Approaches to Public Health (Springer, 2010) (with Benjamin Mason Meier, Jocelyn E. Getgen, and Leslie London).

"Human Rights of Persons with Mental Disabilities" in The Principles of Mental Health Law and Policy (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2010) (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, 2009) (with Lawrence O. Gostin).

"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).