George J. Annas, JD, MPH
William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor
Boston University

JD, Harvard Law School
MPH, Harvard School of Public Health
AB, Harvard College



George J. Annas is William Fairfield Warren Distinguished Professor at Boston University and Director of the Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights at Boston University School of Public Health, and a member of the Department of Health Law, Policy and Management at the School of Public Health. He is also a Professor at the School of Law and School of Medicine. He is author or editor of 20 books on health law and bioethics, including The Rights of Patients (3d ed 2004), Public Health Law (2d ed 2014), American Bioethics (2005), Worst Case Bioethics (2010), and Genomic Messages (2015). He is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is the co-founder of Global Lawyers & Physicians, a NGO dedicated to promoting health and human rights.

Professor
Boston University School of Public Health
Health Law, Policy & Management


Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Medicine
General Internal Medicine

Director
Boston University School of Public Health
Center for Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights




Ethical Responsibilities of Physicians Who Care for Immigrants in Federal Immigration Detention
01/01/2019 - 12/31/2019 (Co-Investigator)
PI: Sondra S. Crosby, MD
The Greenwall Foundation




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  1. Martinez MW, Ackerman MJ, Annas GJ, Baggish AL, Day SM, Harmon KG, Kim JH, Levine BD, Putukian M, Lampert R. Sports Participation by Athletes With Cardiovascular Disease. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2024 Feb 27; 83(8):865-868. PMID: 38383101
     
  2. Bedi NS, Mathur N, Wang JD, Rech A, Gaden N, Annas GJ, Crosby SS. Human Rights in Hospitals: an End to Routine Shackling. J Gen Intern Med. 2024 Jan 02.View Related Profiles. PMID: 38169026
     
  3. Annas GJ. (Re)criminalizing Abortion: Returning to the Political with Stories. J Law Med Ethics. 2023; 51(3):480-484. PMID: 38088615
     
  4. Annas GJ, Kummer HB. Canada Welcomes Tundra's Immortality Project to Prevent Death (Wall Street Journal, July 13, 2060, p. D1, "Travel and Leisure" Section). Am J Bioeth. 2023 Nov; 23(11):115-117. PMID: 37879003
     
  5. Annas GJ, Kummer HB. Preventing the Slide down the Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Euthanasia While Protecting the Rights of People with Disabilities Who Are "Not Dead Yet.". Am J Bioeth. 2023 Sep; 23(9):20-22. PMID: 37647472
     
  6. Annas GJ. Trust, Brutality, and Human Dignity: How "Partial Birth Abortion" Helps Shape American Biopolitics. Am J Law Med. 2022 Jul; 48(2-3):173-186. PMID: 36715259
     
  7. Annas GJ, Crosby SS. Standard Racism: Trying to Use "Crisis Standards of Care" in the COVID-19 Pandemic. Am J Bioeth. 2021 08; 21(8):1-3.View Related Profiles. PMID: 34313559
     
  8. Annas GJ, Beisel CL, Clement K, Crisanti A, Francis S, Galardini M, Galizi R, Grünewald J, Immobile G, Khalil AS, Müller R, Pattanayak V, Petri K, Paul L, Pinello L, Simoni A, Taxiarchi C, Joung JK. A Code of Ethics for Gene Drive Research. CRISPR J. 2021 02; 4(1):19-24.View Related Profiles. PMID: 33571044; PMCID: PMC7898401; DOI: 10.1089/crispr.2020.0096;
     
  9. Annas GJ, Galea S. Addressing public health's failings during year one of Covid-19. EClinicalMedicine. 2021 Feb; 32:100714.View Related Profiles. PMID: 33521607; PMCID: PMC7832607; DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2020.100714;
     
  10. Crosby SS, Sonis L, Annas GJ. The Boston Medical Center Immigrant Task Force: An Alternative to Teaching Immigration Law to Health Care Providers. J Law Med Ethics. 2021; 49(1):59-63.View Related Profiles. PMID: 33966656
     
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Bar chart showing 395 publications over 45 distinct years, with a maximum of 18 publications in 1980

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Massachusetts Bill Would Let Prisoners Donate Organs in Exchange for Shorter Sentence

HealthDay 2/9/2023

Organs in exchange for freedom? Bill raises ethical concerns

Associated Press 2/8/2023

Insurers and employers in Mass. scramble to keep out-of-state workers covered for abortion

The Boston Globe 5/31/2022

POV: Should the Unvaccinated Be Eligible for a Heart Transplant?

BU Today 2/1/2022

Critics say a childhood asthma study unethically withheld care—and see a troubling trend

Science Magazine 8/12/2021

Fact check: COVID-19 vaccine mandates don't violate Nuremberg Code

USA Today 8/10/2021

SPH’s Shine Lecture to Focus on the High Prices of America’s Emergency Rooms

BU Today 2/10/2021

Ethicists say Trump special treatment raises fairness issues

Associated Press 10/7/2020

What Presidents haven’t told us about their health over the years

CNN 10/7/2020

College Student Volunteers For Controversial ‘Human Challenge’ Trial for COVID-19 Vaccine

CBS Boston 9/21/2020

Ethical or exploitative—should prisoners participate in COVID-19 vaccine trials?

Science Magazine 9/14/2020

BU Prof: Nursing Home COVID Deaths Point To Discrimination Against People With Disabilities

WBUR 7/27/2020

What Do We Actually Know About Our Aging POTUS Candidates’ Health?

The Daily Beast 7/20/2020

Somerville is delaying its reopening. Will it make a difference?

The Boston Globe 7/17/2020

Coronavirus vaccine developers are chasing outbreaks before they disappear

The Washington Post 6/10/2020

“The Democrats are pushing for an implanted microchip in humans, and everyone to be vaccinated.”

PolitiFact 4/23/2020

How Plans to Test Everyone in a Ski Resort Town Fell Apart

he Daily Beast 4/9/2020

Can the Feds Close State Boarders to Stop COVID-19?

How Stuff Works 3/17/2020

Trump and states have broad powers to do ‘extraordinary things’ to contain the virus

NBC News 3/13/2020

Trump and States Have Broad Powers to Do 'Extraordinary Things' to Contain the Virus

NBC News 3/13/2020

Clash in the name of care

The Boston Globe 11/7/2019

POV: Child Detention at the Border Is Torture

BU Today 7/18/2019

German ethics council expresses openness to eventual embryo editing

STAT 5/13/2019

Is it Ethical to Revive a Dead Pig’s Brain?

Futurity 5/2/2019

Did Researchers Bring Dead Pigs Back to Life? And Would That Be OK?

BU Today 4/29/2019

Mass. woman sues Women & Infants Hospital over 13-year delay in disclosing frozen embryo

The Providence Journal 3/17/2019

Leading Scientists Call For Moratorium And Global Forum On Gene-Edited Babies

WBUR 3/13/2019

Changing the National Conversation around Death

BU Today 2/15/2019

POV: How Did Claims of CRISPR Babies Hijack an International Gene-Editing Summit?

BU Today 12/4/2018

Genetically engineered babies? Scientists say more oversight, research, consensus needed before altering embryos

Mass Live 11/28/2018

Berkshire Bank CEO quits with no explanation and a $7.5 million payout

The Boston Globe 11/27/2018

Local researcher calls for halt to genetically edited embryos

The Boston Globe 11/26/2018

Boston-area scientists criticize Chinese researcher who changed embryonic DNA

The Boston Globe 11/26/2018

More research on ‘dying healthy’ will also help us live healthier

stat 10/3/2018

Escape from the Mayo Clinic: Parents break teen out of world-famous hospital

CNN Health 8/13/2018

2008 Indiana University: McDonald-Merrill-Ketcham Memorial Award for Law & Medicine
2007 Samford University: Pelligrino Award for Bioethics
2005 Boston University: University Lecturer
2003 Ethical Society of Boston: Humanist of the Year Award
2001 Health Law Forum, American Public Health Association: Jennifer Robbins Award
2000 American College of Legal Medicine: Honorary Fellow
1997 Member, Institute of Medicine
1996 American Association for the Advancement of Science: Fellow
1995 Massachusetts Psychiatry Society: Milton Greenblatt Award
1994 Salem State College: Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa
1993 American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics: National Health Law Teachers Award
1984 Health Planning Council for Greater Boston: Community Service Award
1982 American Public Health Association, New Professionals Section: Humanitarian Award
1981 American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics: Honorary Lifetime Member
1980 Editor in Chief Emeritus, Law, Medicine and Health Care (now Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics)
1971-1972 Harvard University: First recipient of Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. Foundation Fellowship in Medical Ethics
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