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Participant's Biography
John R. Anderson, PhD is the Director of the Office on AIDS at the American Psychological Association and a clinical psychologist who has conducted a private psychotherapy and case management practice in Washington, D.C. since 1986. He specializes in individual, couple, family, and hypnosis therapies for people living with, and people affected by, HIV/AIDS, cancer, and other chronic and life-threatening illnesses. The APA Office on AIDS provides information, training, and technical assistance on a wide range of HIV/AIDS-related topics associated with coping, mental health services, prevention, technology transfer, community collaboration, public policy, and ethics. Dr. Anderson's primary area of research has focused on the relationships between hope, coping, adjustment, and health. Contact me | Back to top | Home Leo Beletsky's background spans the fields of public health, law, communications, and comparative health systems. His specific interest is in advancing an evidence-based approach in the development of public policy that addresses community-level health and social problems. Drawing on a broad range of experience including informatics research at Harvard Medical School, cyberhealth and cultural competency programs at the New York Public Library, and organizational behavior work at the New York Academy of Medicine, he has also been involved in public health and health law-related projects in South America, the Caribbean and, most recently, in Eastern Europe. Prior to coming to Temple University School of Law as a consultant, together with Scott Burris Leo was a principal investigator on qualitative study at Brown University Medical School examining how harm reduction legislation impacts law enforcement professionals. A graduate of Vassar College and Oxford University with a degree in geography and a masters in public health from Brown University, he will be pursuing a JD starting in the fall of 2005. Contact me | Back to top | Home
Dr. Michael Borowitz was appointed Director of the Open Society Institute Public Health Program in October, 2004. Michael comes to OSI from the World Bank, where he served as Senior Health Specialist for East Asia and the Pacific, working on China, Indonesia, and Mongolia. Previously, Michael served as Senior Health Adviser at the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID), directing British development assistance in health for the former Soviet Union. Before DFID, he was based in Almaty, Kazakhstan for 5 years directing a USAID health reform project for Central Asia. He also worked on health reform for the United States government.
Scott Burris is the James E. Beasley Professor of Law at the Beasley School of Law of Temple University, and Associate Director of the Center for Law and the Public's Health at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He was the editor of the first systematic legal analysis of HIV in the United States, "AIDS and the Law: A Guide for the Public" (Yale University Press, 1987). His current research focuses on how law influences public health and health behavior. His work has been supported by major health organizations, including the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. He has served as a consultant on public health law with organizations ranging from the United Nations Development Programme and the American Psychological Association to the Institute of Medicine and the producers of the Oscar-winning film "Philadelphia." As an attorney and Board member of the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, he has represented people with HIV facing discrimination from employers, service providers and the government. Burris is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and the Yale Law School. Contact me | Back to top | Home
Mary Callaway, ME served as the Associate Director for the Project on Death in America of the Open Society Institute from 1994 to 2003 and has been the Associate Director for the International Palliative Care Initiative (IPCI) since 2000. In addition to managing the program activities of PDIA, she worked closely with the OSI Network Public Health Program to develop the International Palliative Care Initiative in Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union and Sub Saharan Africa. Prior to joining OSI, Ms. Callaway was the Administrator for the Pain and Palliative Care Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City for 16 years while also serving as the Executive Director for the World Health Organization’s Collaborating Center for Cancer Pain Research and Education.
Andrew Chen is an attorney based in the Seattle office of Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, where he focuses his practice on FDA Law and Health Law, particularly the issues involved in the regulation of drugs, medical devices, and biologics. Andrew had previously served as Assistant Chief Counsel for more than three years at the FDA Office of the Chief Counsel, and one year at a prominent law firm in Washington D.C.. With his in-depth and first-hand understanding of the FDA and China, Andrew effectively helps U.S. and international clients strategize and obtain FDA research authorizations and marketing approvals, and achieve compliance with FDA regulations governing the manufacturing, distribution, importation, exportation, or outsourcing of FDA regulated products. Andrew’s other practice areas include assisting Chinese companies establishing subsidiaries in the U.S. and applying for U.S. visas for the executives and managers. Andrew received a J.D., with distinction, from the University of Nebraska College of Law, where he served as executive editor of the Nebraska Law Review. Andrew is a graduate of Beijing University, where he earned a B.A. in Cross-cultural Communications, and a B.A. in International Politics. Andrew speaks English, Mandarin, and Taiwanese, and he is currently licensed only in Nebraska and Washington D.C. Contact me | Back to top | Home Margaret Farrell is a lawyer and a professor interested in public health law education. She has taught public health law both in the US (Johns Hopkins) and China (Fudan). Ms. Farrell spent last spring in Shanghai as a Fullbright Fellow teaching a course in US Health Insurance at the East China University of Politics and Law. This fall, she will offer a course at American University on International Organizations and Global Public Health Issues, for which she expects to draw a great deal on the Chinese experience. Contact me | Back to top | Home Hernan L. Fuenzalida-Puelma, a national of Chile, is a lawyer and holds a LL.M from Yale University. He is a senior international consultant to both international organizations and the private sector. His brief concerns the legal/regulatory and institutional issues in financial sector development, social protection financing and management (social security, pensions, labor and health care; policy and institutional development of public and private regulatory agencies; and insurance industry development. He has published books and articles on the Right to Health, Bioethics, and written dozens of report on health policy, health insurance, and health care reform. Mr. Fuenzalida-Puelma has a work experience in over 40 countries. Contact me | Back to top | Home Douglas Grob is Assistant Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he teaches courses on Chinese Legal Reform, American Administrative Law, Law and Society, and a PhD seminar entitled “Politics, Philosophy and Public Policy.” He holds a PhD. in Political Science from Stanford University (2001), and M.A. and A.B. degrees in International Relations specializing in East Asia from the University of Pennsylvania. Grob studied Administrative Law at Peking University School of Law, and has conducted research in China on administrative law reform. His main areas of interest include the development of administrative procedures, administrative review and rulemaking processes at the grassroots in the U.S. and China. Grob’s non-academic professional experience includes work in banking and healthcare-related U.S.-China trade. His Mandarin oral proficiency has been rated “Advanced-High” by the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, and he is a recipient of a 2005 Award for Teaching Excellence from the University of Maryland. Contact me | Back to top | Home
Professor Dean Harris received his B.A. degree in Asian Studies from Cornell University in 1973, and received his J.D. degree with high honors from UNC School of Law in 1981. He is the author of Contemporary Issues in Healthcare Law and Ethics (2nd edition), which was published by Health Administration Press in 2003.
Yanzhong Huang, PhD is Assistant Professor at the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, where he teaches graduate level courses on bioterrorism and impact of infectious disease. He also serves as the Director of the School’s Center for Global Health Studies, and in that capacity he provides leadership for the School’s development of a global health specialization, the first academic concentration among U.S. professional schools of international affairs that explicitly addresses the international security and foreign policy aspects of health issues. A specialist in global health, Dr. Huang conducts research focusing on health security and health politics (especially with regard to China). His current research interests include HIV/AIDS politics in China, SARS and global health governance, and an empirical analysis of state adaptation to HIV/AIDS. His current research interests include HIV/AIDS politics in China, SARS and global health governance, and an empirical analysis of state adaptation to HIV/AIDS. Over the past four years, he has given more than 40 invited talks, media interviews, and presentations, covering issues of China’s public health, population policy, domestic politics, and U.S.-China relations. He has also been consulted by US governmental and non-governmental organizations on global health issues and he has advised major pharmaceutical companies on their China strategies. Recently, he has joined a small group of foreign-policy experts to advise the Canadian Prime Minister on the proposed L-20 meeting of key world leaders. Dr. Huang is a member of the National Committee on US-China Relations. He received a PhD. degree in political science from the University of Chicago in 2000. Contact me | Back to top | Home Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, J.D., holds the Robert L. Willett Family Professorship of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law. He is a coauthor of a casebook, Health Law, used widely throughout the United States in teaching health law, and of a treatise and hornbook by the same name. He is also the author of Disentitlement? The Threats Facing our Public Health Care Programs and a Rights-Based Response, Readings in Comparative Health Law and Bioethics, the editor of Regulation of the Healthcare Professions. and an author of Medicare and Medicaid Fraud and Abuse. He also edits the Legal Scholarship Network Health Law and Policy Electronic Abstract Journal. He has also written numerous articles and book chapters on health care regulation and comparative health law and policy. Professor Jost has presented at numerous international conferences and symposia, including conferences in the U.K., Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Australia, and Turkey, and has also spoken on health law topics in Chile, Greece, and Sweden. He has a organized a number of symposia and conferences, including conferences at Ohio State University, Washington and Lee University, and Oxford University. He is currently editing a symposium issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. Contact me | Back to top | Home
Joan Kaufman is the founding Director of the AIDS Public Policy Training Program at the Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, a program which trains officials in China and Vietnam about the governance requirements for an effective AIDS response. She is also a Senior Scientist at the Schneider Institute for Health Policy at Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management and Lecturer in Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is the China Team Leader for the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative. She was the Ford Foundation's Gender and Reproductive Health Program Officer for China from 1996-2001 where her portfolio funded government, researchers and NGOs in efforts to reform China's population policy and family planning program, to mobilize a response to the AIDS epidemic, and to promote attention to gender and reproductive health in rural health reform.
Ellen Liu is a Program Officer for the Network Public Health Program (NPHP) Open Society Institute based in New York, where she manages a range of programs and communications activities for the NPHP including the Salzburg Seminar Series International, the OSI Seminar Series and the health media program. Previously, Ellen worked at Mount Sinai Medical Center for a cancer research foundation and oversaw grants for a collaborative cancer research project with the Shanghai Second Medical University. Ellen has lived and studied in both Taipei and Shanghai and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Dr. Yuanli Liu is Assistant Professor of International Health at Harvard School of Public Health and Director of the China Initiative. He has been teaching health financing and health system analysis at Harvard since 1994. In 2003 Harvard School of Public Health profiled six professors as “Future Leaders in Public Health”. Dr. Liu is one of them. He has conducted extensive studies on health system reforms in developing countries, particularly in China. Dr. Liu served as a coordinator of the Global Health Equity Initiative. He served on the United Nations Millennium Development Taskforce on HIV/AIDS, Malaria, TB, and Access to Basic Medicines. He served as a health policy and health system consultant to various international agencies including the World Bank, UNICEF, WHO, UNDP, and Asian Development Bank as well as Fortune 500 healthcare and pharmaceutical companies. Dr. Liu is also Vice-President of the China Foundation, Inc., a US-based non-profit organization. Contact me | Back to top | Home
Dr. Bernard Lo is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Program in Medical Ethics at UCSF. He is National Program Director for the Greenwall Faculty Scholars Program in Bioethics. He serves on the Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee at NIH, which reviews gene transfer protocols. He also serves on the Data and Safety Monitoring Committees for diabetes prevention trials and a HIV vaccine trial at NIAID. He is a member of the Ethics Working Group of the NIH-sponsored HIV Prevention Trials Network, which carries out clinical trials in developing countries. He is co-Director of the Policy and Ethics Core of the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at UCSF, which provides technical advice and consultation to researchers carrying out clinical research, including research in resource-poor nations.
Dr. Grace Ma is a Professor in the Department of Public Health and Director of Center for Asian Health, College of Health Professions at Temple University. She received her PhD from the University of Oklahoma. Her research interests focus on community-based participatory cancer prevention and early detection, health disparities, smoking cessation and other substance abuse intervention, chronic illness, quality of health care and healthcare service policies among Asian ethnic populations. Dr. Ma’s current ATECAR-Asian Community Cancer network, funded by NCI-NIH, focuses on smoking cessation and lung cancer prevention, cervical and breast cancer, Hep B-liver cancer, colorectal and stomach cancer, chronic disease interventions and healthcare access in Asian communities. She established the first Asian Community Cancer Coalition (ACCC) with a membership of 48 community-based organizations and 24 health provider partners in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.
Gene Matthews, J.D. is the Director of the Institute of Public Health Law, which is an operating arm of the CDC Foundation in Atlanta, Georgia. The mission of this new Institute is to expand the use of law as a tool in the practice of public health through outreach, training, and coordinated research. Mr. Matthews served as the Legal Advisor to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta from 1979 to 2004 and, as manager of the legal staff there for 25 years, handled a wide range of public health law issues. Most recently, Mr. Matthews provided leadership for CDC's development of a Public Health Law Program, and he has guided this exciting initiative to reach out to both the legal community and to public health practitioners.
An internationally-recognized expert on mental disability law, Michael Perlin has devoted his career to championing legal rights for people with mental disabilities. A prolific author of thirteen books and well over 150 scholarly articles on all aspects of mental disability law, Professor Perlin says that his ninth book, The Hidden Prejudice: Mental Disability on Trial (2000), "represents my lifetime work." The book is an attempt to educate society about how the fear of persons with mental illness creates a hidden bias against them that prevents equal justice, a form of discrimination he calls "sanism." A teacher-lawyer-advocate who advises mental health professionals, hospitals, advocates, activists, lawyers, and governments, Professor Perlin has worked directly on mental disability cases as a deputy public defender and as director of the Division of Mental Health Advocacy in the New Jersey Department of the Public Advocate.
Barbara J. Safriet has been an Associate Dean and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School since 1988. In addition to her academic administrative duties, she teaches seminars on Health Law & Policy and The Regulation of Health Care Providers. She has served as a member of The Pew Health Professions Commission, and its Taskforce on Health Care Workforce Regulation, and as a Health Law Consultant and Presenter for the Rockefeller Foundation, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund, the Association of Academic Health Centers, the U.S. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, the U.S. Public Health Service, the National Rural Health Association, the National Council of State Legislatures, and the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress. She has served as a member of the Data Safety & Monitoring Committees of the Wilmer Institute’s Macular Photocoagulation Study and the National Eye Institute’s Multicenter Trial of Cryotherapy for Retinopathy of Prematurity.
Shen Weixing is an Associate Professor, Law School, Tsinghua University, Peking, who specializes in property, contract, torts, bioethics and health law. He received his legal training at China University of Political Science and Law, his postdoctoral training at Peking University, and LL.M and LL.B degrees from Jilin University. Mr. Shen has extensive international experience, having been invited to teach and conduct research at prominent academic institutions in the US, Macao, and Germany. Currently, he is involved in a number of research projects, including a study on the Theory of the Right of Expectation; Sponsored by the Taiwan Zhongliu Cultural and Educational Fund and Himalaya Fund, study on Reservation of Ownership and Reference, sponsored by China Post-doctoral Fund, analysis of the Modern Security System and Legislation on Property Rights in China, Sponsored by the Ministry of Education, study on the reformation of German Obligations Law and its Influence on the Compilation of new Chinese Civil Law, Program of National Social Science Fund, and study on the Legal Problem of Human Organ Donation and Transplantation, Sponsored by Tsinghua University. Contact me | Back to top | Home Wang Ruotao is a Professor at the Beijing Union School of Public Health, and a senior advisor to the Ministry of Health and the Chinese CDC. He trained in medicine in China, in public health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and in law at the Yale Law School. Contact me | Back to top | Home
Leslie E. Wolf, J.D., M.P.H., is an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Program in Medical Ethics and the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies at the University of California, San Francisco. Before joining the UCSF faculty, she was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy, a program offered jointly at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities. She previously clerked for the Massachusetts Appeals Court and practiced as a litigator with a San Francisco law firm. At UCSF, she serves on the Committee on Human Research, the General Clinical Research Center Advisory Committee, and the Campus Advisory Committee on the Ethics of Gamete, Stem Cell, and Embryo Research.
Fengshi Wu, PhD in Political Science, University of Maryland, is specialized in international relations and comparative politics. She will start teaching at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in fall 2005. Her research interests include transnational activism in China, and global environmental and public health politics. She has done substantial field research and published articles on environmental movements and NGOs in Mainland China. Since 2003, she has researched on AIDS prevention and relief work in China. She has been an advisor for both the AIDS Relief Fund for China and the Aixin Foundation since 2004. Contact me | Back to top | Home Dr. Yanfang Zheng is an oncologist and virologist who completed her MD and PhD training at the First Military Medical University in China in 2000. She continued her work at the Oncology Center of the First Military Medical University as an attending physician and senior researcher. For several months in 2003, she personally treated SARS patients at Xiaotangshan hospital in Beijing as a volunteer military doctor. She remained at Xiaotangshan until the end of the SARS crisis. As a cancer and virology specialist and researcher, Dr. Zheng has published widely in Chinese medical literature. Dr. Zheng was invited to the National Institutes of Health in the United States as a visiting scientist in January 2004. Contact me | Back to top | Home
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