Govind Persad
Associate Professor
Full Faculty Bio: https://www.colorado.edu/law/govind-persad
Articles
| The Law of Health Equity, UTAH LAW REVIEW (forthcoming 2025). |
| Persad (peer reviewed; first author, with Anne Barnhill & Douglas MacKay), Displaying Wastewater Surveillance Data--An Ethics Framework, 12 JOURNAL OF LAW & THE BIOSCIENCES lsaf001. |
| Persad (first author, with Johan Dellgren and Ezekiel J. Emanuel), Avoiding Four Fallacies in the Fair Allocation of Influenza Countermeasures, 10 BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH e018391. |
| Persad (last author, with Johan Dellgren and Ezekiel J. Emanuel), Ethical Approaches to Limiting Overall Costs for Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists for Weight Management, 178 ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE 119. |
| Persad (third author, with Michael Hermsen, Patrick Lyons, Alice Bewley, Chengsheng Mao, Kaveri Chhikara, Anoop Mayampurath, Matthew Churpek,Monica Peek, Yuan Luo, & William Parker), Age and Saving Lives in Crisis Standards of Care: A Multicenter Cohort Study of Triage Score Prognostic Accuracy, 7 CRITICAL CARE EXPLORATIONS E1256. |
| Persad (first author, with Emily A. Largent, Sophie Gibert, Leila Orszag, & Leah Pierson), Bioethicists Tomorrow: Identity, Inclusiveness, and Future Directions, 145 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS W3. |
| Antiracist Medicine in Colorblind Courts, 123 MICHIGAN LAW REVIEW 145. |
| Equitably Valuing Medicine, 58 UC DAVIS LAW REVIEW 1235. |
| Persad (third author, with Owen Schaefer, Maxwell Smith, and Ezekiel J. Emanuel), Sustainability in the Pandemic Accord, 9 BMJ GLOBAL HEALTH e015458. |
| Persad (second author, with Johan Dellgren and Ezekiel J. Emanuel), International Coverage of GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: A Review and Ethical Analysis of Discordant Approaches, 404 LANCET 10455. |
| Persad (last author, with Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Johan Dellgren, and Matthew S. McCoy), Fair Allocation of GLP-1 and Dual GLP-1-GIP Receptor Agonists, 390 NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 1839. |
| Persad (sixth author, with Leah Pierson, Sophie Gibert, Leila Orszag, Haley K. Sullivan, Rachel Fei, and Emily Largent), Bioethicists Today: Results of the Views in Bioethics Survey, 24 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS 9. |
| Persad (invited; first author, with Emily Largent), Fairly Incorporating Vaccination Status into Scarce Resource Allocation Frameworks, 24 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS 80. |
| Defining Health Affordability, 109 IOWA LAW REVIEW 241. |
| Considering Vaccination Status, 74 HASTINGS (now UC) LAW JOURNAL 399. |
| Persad (fifth author, with G. Owen Schaefer, Caesar Atuire, Sharon Kaur, Michael Parker, Maxwell Smith, Ross Upshur, and Ezekiel Emanuel), The Importance of Getting the Ethics Right in a Pandemic Treaty, 23 LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES E489. |
| Persad (fifth author, with G. Owen Schaefer, Ezekiel Emanuel, Caesar Atuire, RJ Leland, Henry S Richardson and Carla Saenz), Equitable Global Allocation of Monkeypox Vaccines, 41 VACCINE 7084. |
| Persad (second author, with Ezekiel J. Emanuel), The Shared Ethical Framework to Allocate Scarce Medical Resources: A Lesson From COVID-19, 401 LANCET 1892. |
| Persad (first author, with RJ Leland, Trygve Ottersen, Henry S Richardson, Carla Saenz, G. Owen Schaefer, Ezekiel J. Emanuel), Fair Domestic Allocation of Monkeypox Virus Countermeasures, 8 LANCET PUBLIC HEALTH E378. |
| Westlaw's Key Number System, 51 CO. LAW 8 (2022). |
| Reforming Age Cutoffs, 56 UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND LAW REVIEW 1007. |
| Minimum Age Cutoffs and the Fair Allocation of Benefits, HARVARD HUMAN RIGHTS JOURNAL ONLINE. |
| Equal Protection and Scarce Therapies: The Role of Race, Sex, and Other Protected Clasifications, 75 SMU LAW REVIEW FORUM 226. |
| Persad (first author, with Ankur Pandya), A Comprehensive Covid-19 Response -- The Need for Economic Evaluation, 386 NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 2449. |
| Persad (last author, with Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sonmez, and Utku Unver), Reserve System Design for Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in a Pandemic: Some Perspectives from the Field, 38 OXFORD REVIEW OF ECONOMIC POLICY 924. |
| Persad (second author, with William F. Parker and Monica E. Peek), Errors in Converting Principles to Protocols: Where the Bioethics of US Covid-19 Vaccine Allocation Went Wrong, 52 HASTINGS CENTER REPORT 8. |
| Persad (second author, with Garth Strohbehn, William F. Parker, and Srinivas Murthy), Dose Optimisation and Scarce Resource Allocation: Two Sides of the Same Coin, 12 BMJ OPEN e063436. |
| Persad (first author, with Patricia J. Zettler, and Holly Fernandez Lynch), Flexible Administration of COVID-19 Vaccines and Therapeutics -- A Call for Clarity Around Legality, Liability, and Compensation for Injury, HEALTH AFFAIRS FOREFRONT. |
| Persad (first author, with Emily Largent), COVID-19 Vaccine Refusal and Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources, 3 JAMA HEALTH FORUM E220356. |
| Persad (first author, with Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sonmez, and M. Utku Unver), Fair Access to Scarce Medical Capacity for Non-Covid-19 Patients: A Role for Reserves, 376 BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL o276. |
| Persad (last author, with Ameet Sarpatwari, Ankur Pandya, & Emily P. Hyle), COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters for All Adults: An Optimal U.S. Approach?, 175 ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE 280. |
| Persad (last author, with Elizabeth Wrigley-Field and Kaitlin M. Berry), Race-Specific, State-Specific COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Adjusted for Age, 8 SOCIUS 23780231221082401. |
| Persad (first author, with Patricia J. Zettler, Holly Fernandez Lynch; roundtable with Jennifer E. deSante-Bertkau, Timothy K. Knilans, & Armand H. Matheny Antommaria), Off-Label Prescription of COVID-19 Vaccines in Children: Clinical, Ethical, and Legal Issues, 149 PEDIATRICS E2021054578. |
| Persad (first author, with Monica Peek and Seema Shah), Fair Allocation of Scarce Therapies for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), 75 CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES E529. |
| Persad (seventh author, with Doug White, Erin McCreary, Chung-Chou Chang, Mark Schmidhofer, J. Ryan Bariola, Naudia Jonassaint, Bob Truog, Parag A. Pathak, Tayfun Sonmez, M. Utku Unver), A Multi-center Weighted Lottery to Equitably Allocate Scarce COVID-19 Therapeutics, 206 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF RESPIRATORY AND CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE 503. |
| Allocating Medicine Fairly in an Unfair Pandemic, 2021 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINIOS LAW REVIEW 1085. |
| Pricing Drugs Fairly, 62 WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW 928. |
| Tailoring Public Health Policies, 47 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LAW & MEDICINE 176 (symposium). |
| Persad (first author, with Ezekiel J. Emanuel), Ethical Considerations of Offering Benefits to COVID-19 Vaccine Recipients, 326 JAMA 221. |
| Persad (first author, with Steven Joffe), Allocating Scarce Life-Saving Resources: The Proper Role of Age, 47 JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS 836. |
| Against Exclusive Survivalism: Preserving Life and Protecting the Disadvantaged in Resource Allocation, 52 HASTINGS CENTER REPORT 47. |
| Persad (fifth author, with Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Cecile Fabre, Lisa Herzog, Ole F. Norheim, G. Owen Schaefer, & Kok-Chor Tan), Obligations in a Global Health Emergency -- Author's Reply, 398 LANCET 2072. |
| Persad (with Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Allen Buchanan, Shuk Ying Chan, Cecile Fabre, Daniel Halliday, Joseph Heath, Lisa Herzog, RJ Leland, Matthew McCoy, Ole F. Norheim, Carla Saenz, G. Owen Schaefer, Kok-Chor Tan, Christopher Heath Wellman, Jonathan Wolff), What Are the Obligations of Pharmaceutical Companies in a Global Health Emergency?, 398 LANCET 1015. |
| Persad (first author, with Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Samantha Sangenito, Aaron Glickman, Steven Phillips, & Emily A. Largent), Public Perspectives on COVID-19 Vaccine Prioritization, 4 JAMA NETWORK OPEN e217943. |
| Persad (second author, with Emily Largent, Michelle Mello, Danielle Wenner, Daniel Kramer, Brownsyne Tucker Edmonds, & Monica E. Peek), Incorporating Health Equity Into COVID-19 Reopening Plans: Policy Experimentation in California, 111 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH 1481. |
| Persad (second author, with William F. Parker & Monica E. Peek), Fair Allocation at COVID-19 Mass Vaccination Sites, 2 JAMA HEALTH FORUM e210464. |
| Improving the Ethical Review of Health Policy and Systems Research: Some Suggestions, 49 JOURNAL OF LAW, MEDICINE & ETHICS 123. |
| Sustainability, Equal Treatment, and Temporal Neutrality, 47 JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS 106. |
| Prioritizing the Prevention of Early Deaths from COVID-19, 51 HASTINGS CENTER REPORT 42. |
| Persad (fifth author, with Rachel Fabi, Leonard Rubenstein, Paul Spiegel, Namrita Singh, & Daniel Serwer), Determining the Number of Refugees to be Resettled in the United States: An Ethical and Policy Analysis, 19 JOURNAL OF IMMIGRANT & REFUGEE STUDIES 142. |
| Expensive Patients, Reinsurance, and the Future of Health Care Reform, 69 EMORY LAW JOURNAL 1153. |
| Choosing Affordable Health Insurance, 88 GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW 819. |
| Persad (peer reviewed; second author, with David Wasserman & Joseph Millum), Setting Priorities Fairly in Response to Covid-19: Identifying Overlapping Consensus and Reasonable Disagreement, 7 JOURNAL OF LAW & THE BIOSCIENCES lsaa044. |
| Disability Law and the Case for Evidence-Based Triage in a Pandemic, 130 YALE LAW JOURNAL FORUM 26. |
| Persad (first author, with Monica E. Peek & Ezekiel J. Emanuel), Fairly Prioritizing Groups for Access to COVID-19 Vaccines, 324 JAMA 1601. |
| Persad (second author, with Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Adam Kern, Allen Buchanan, Cecile Fabre, Daniel Halliday, Joseph Heath, Lisa Herzog, R.J. Leland, Ephrem T. Lemango, Florencia Luna, Matthew S. McCoy, Ole F. Norheim, Trygve Ottersen, G. Owen Schaefer), An Ethical Framework for Global Vaccine Allocation, 369 SCIENCE 1309. |
| Persad (Second author, with Emily Largent, Samantha Sangenito, Aaron Glickman, Connor Boyle, & Ezekiel J. Emanuel), US Public Attitudes Toward COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates, 3 JAMA NETWORK OPEN e2033324. |
| Persad (first author, with Ezekiel J. Emanuel), The Ethics of COVID-19 Immunity-Based Licenses ("Immunity Passports"), 323 JAMA 2241N. |
| Persad (second author, with Michelle Mello & Douglas White), Respecting Disability Rights--Towards Improved Crisis Standards of Care, 383 NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE e26. |
| Persad (second author, with Ezekiel J. Emanuel, Ross Upshur, Beatriz Thome, Michael Parker, Aaron Glickman, Cathy Zhang, Connor Boyle, Maxwell Smith, & James Phillips), Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of COVID-19, 382 NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE 2049 (Reprinted in BIOETHICS: PRINCIPLES, ISSUES, AND CASES 5th ed.). |
| Persad (first author, with Douglas White; roundtable with Ryan Antiel, Farr A. Curlin, Cathy Zhang, Aaron Glickman, Ezekiel J. Emanuel, & John D. Lantos), Should Pediatric Patients Be Prioritized When Rationing Life-Saving Treatments During the COVID-19 Pandemic?, 146 PEDIATRICS E2020012542. |
| A Conceptual Framework for Clearer Ethical Discussions About COVID-19 Response, 20 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS 98. |
| Persad (fourth author, with Tayfun Sonmez, Parag Pathak, Utku Unver, Robert Truog, and Douglas White), Categorized Priority Systems: A New Tool for Fairly Allocating Scarce Medical Resources in the Face of Profound Social Inequities, 159 CHEST 1294. |
| Persad (fourth author, with Catherine Auriemma, Ashli Molinero, Amy Houtrow, Douglas White, & Scott Halpern), Eliminating Categorical Exclusion Criteria in Crisis Standards of Care Frameworks, 20 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS 28. |
| Advance Directives and Transformative Experience: Resilience in the Face of Change, 20 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS 69. |
| Evaluating the Legality of Age-Based Criteria in Health Care: From Nondiscrimination and Discretion to Distributive Justice, 60 BOSTON COLLEGE LAW REVIEW 889. |
| Examining Pharmaceutical Exceptionalism: Intellectual Property, Practical Expediency, and Global Health, 18 YALE JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY, LAW & ETHICS 157 (peer reviewed). |
| Considering Quality of Life While Repudiating Disability Injustice: The Pathways Approach to Priority-Setting, 47 JOURNAL OF LAW, MEDICINE, & ETHICS 294 (peer reviewed). |
| Persad (invited; second author, with Leah Rand), Are Medicaid Closed Formularies Unethical? Social Values and Limit-Setting, 21 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL OF ETHICS 654. |
| Persad (first author, with Holly Fernandez Lynch and Emily Largent), Differential Payment to Research Participants: An Ethical Analysis, 45 JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS 318. |
| Will More Organs Save More Lives? Cost-Effectiveness and the Ethics of Expanding Organ Procurement, 33 BIOETHICS 684. |
| Paying Patients: Legal and Ethical Dimensions, 20 YALE JOURNAL OF LAW & TECHNOLOGY 177. |
| Authority Without Identity: Defending Advance Directives via Posthumous Rights over One's Body, 45 JOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS 249. |
| Bankruptcy Beyond Status Maintenance, 11 VIRGINIA LAW & BUSINESS REVIEW 451. |
| Beyond Administrative Tunnel Vision: Widening the Lens of Costs and Benefits, 15 GEORGETOWN JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY 941 (symposium). |
| Persad (first author, with Ezekiel J. Emanuel), The Case for Resource-Sensitivity: Why It Is Ethical to Provide Cheaper, Less-Effective Treatments in Global Health, 47 HASTINGS CENTER REPORT 17. |
| Persad (second author, with Ezekiel J. Emanuel), Dilemmas in Access to Medicines: A Humanitarian Perspective--Author's Reply, 389 LANCET 10073. |
| What Is the Relevance of Procedural Fairness to Making Determinations about Medical Evidence?, 19 AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL OF ETHICS 183. |
| Law, Science, and the Injured Mind, 67 ALABAMA LAW REVIEW 1179. |
| Health Theater, 48 LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO LAW REVIEW 585. |
| Priority-Setting, Cost-Effectiveness, and the Affordable Care Act, 41 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF LAW & MEDICINE 119 (peer reviewed). |
| Persad (first author, with Ezekiel J. Emanuel), The Ethics of Expanding Access to Cheaper, Less-Effective Treatments, 388 LANCET 932. |
| Expanding Deliberation in Critical-Care Policy Design, 16 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF BIOETHICS 60: 60-63. |
| The Medical Cost Pandemic: Why Limiting Access to Cost-Effective Treatments Hurts the Global Poor, 15 CHICAGO JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 559. |
| Persad (last author, with Ezekiel J.Emanuel, Steven Joffe, Christine Grady, & David Wendler), Clinical Research: Should Patients Pay to Play?, 7 SCIENCE TRANSLATIONAL MEDICINE 298. |
| When, and How, Should Cognitive Bias Matter to Law?, 32 LAW & INEQUALITY 31. |
| Libertarian Patriarchalism: Nudges, Procedural Roadblocks, and Reproductive Choice, 35 WOMEN'S RIGHTS LAW REPORTER 273 (symposium). |
| Persad (peer reviewed; second author, with Rebecca A. Johnson & Dominic Sisti), The Tarasoff Rule: The Implications of Interstate Variation and Gaps in Professional Training, 42 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF PSYCHIATRY & LAW 469. |
| Persad (eighth author, with Nour Asfour, Kevin C. Zhang, Jessica Lu, Peter P. Reese, Milda Saunders, Monica Peek, Molly White, and William F. Parker), Assocation of Race and Ethnicity With High Longevity Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation Under the US Kidney Allocation System, 84 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF KIDNEY DISEASES 416. |
| Persad (second author, with Colleen Denny & Elena Gates), Offensive Defensive Medicine: The Ethics of Digoxin Injections in Response to the Partial Birth Abortion Ban, 90 CONTRACEPTION 304. |
| What Marriage Law Can Learn from Citizenship Law (And Vice Versa), 22 TULANE JOURNAL OF LAW & SEXUALITY 103. |
| Risk, Everyday Intuitions, and the Institutional Value of Tort Law, 62 STANFORD LAW REVIEW 1445. |
| Persad (last author, with Iris E. Bennett, Jessie K. Lie & Cynthia J. Robertson), Honest Services after Skilling: Judicial, Prosecutorial and Legislative Responses, 11 AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATIONS CRIMINAL LITIGATION 1. |
| Persad (seventh author, with Kelly Lowenberg, Brenda M. Simon, Amy Knight Burns, Libby Greismann, Jennifer M. Halbleib, David L.M. Preston, Harker Rhodes, & Emily M. Murphy), Misuse Made Plain: Evaluation Concerns About Neuroscience in National Security, 1 AJOB NEUROSCIENCE 15. |
Other Publications
| Persad (last author, with Ezekiel J. Emanuel and Johan Dellgren), GLP-1 Agonists for Obesity, 322 JAMA 673. |
| Persad (first author, with James Phillips & Ezekiel J. Emanuel), Allocating Medical Resources in the Time of COVID-19 --Author's Reply, 382 NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE e79. |
Book Chapters
| Persad (with Kaylan Ellis & Heather J. E. Simmons), The Profession of Law Librarianship, in Introduction of L. Libr., Ch. 1 (Zanada Joyner & Cas Laskowski eds., 2021). |
Courses:
| Spring 2026 | Bioethics and Law | LAWS 7415-801 |
| Spring 2026 | Health Law and Policy | LAWS 7425-801 |
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