James Hodge Jr. ’89
College of Charleston Honors College alumnus James Hodge Jr. ’89 is presenting “The 2014 Ebola Outbreak: Issues of Law, Policy and Ethics” at 3 p.m. on Nov. 20, 2014 in the School of Science and Math Auditorium (202 Calhoun St.). Hodge is the Lincoln Professor of Public Health Law and Ethics at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. This event is free and open to the public.
“The Honors College was pleased to recognize James as the 2014 Honors College Distinguished Alumnus this past May,” says Trisha Folds-Bennett, Dean. “The award was given during the Honors College Senior Awards Ceremony, during which James delivered an engaging address to the students about finding their passion and setting priorities.”
After leaving the Honors College with a bachelor’s degree in business administration, Hodge went on to earn a JD at the Salmon P. Chase College of Law in Kentucky and an LLM from Georgetown University. Next, he served a postdoctoral fellowship in bioethics and health policy in a joint program at Georgetown University and Johns Hopkins University. He then joined the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health faculty and, in 2009, joined the faculty of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU.
Hodge is a national expert on emergency legal preparedness and ethics as well as public health information privacy law and policy. His work on these and other topics has been cited in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, USA Today, and numerous regional newspapers, social media cites, and prestigious journals including Science, JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine and The American Journal of Public Health. “The Honors College is thrilled to have one of our most distinguished alumni return,” shares Folds-Bennett. “The students will benefit from his scholarly insights, but will also have the opportunity to talk with him about a career in law.”
This event is co-sponsored by The Honors College, the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, the School of Education Health, and Human Performance, the Pre-Law program, and the Public Health program.
