EP #213 - 02.02.2021 - COVID-19 Vaccines, Law, and Society

Today is a COVIDCalls discussion of COVID-19 vaccines, law, nationalism, and politics with Ana Santos Rutschman.

Ana Santos Rutschman has been assistant professor at Saint Louis University School of Law since 2018. She focuses on topics related to health law, innovation in the life sciences, intellectual property, and law and technology. At SLU, she teaches FDA Law and Policy, the seminar Emerging Health Technologies: Vaccine Law and Policy, Patent Law and Property. 

Her legal scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in UCLA Law Review, Emory Law Journal, Yale Law Journal Forum, Michigan Law Review Online among other venues.   Her commentary pieces have been published by the Saint Louis Post-Dispatch, Health Affairs Blog, the Huffington Post and The Conversation.  Her forthcoming book, Vaccines as Technology: Innovation, Barriers and the Public Interest with Cambridge University Press is scheduled to be published in 2022.

She has worked as a consultant to the World Health Organization in 2015-2016 during the Ebola and Zika outbreaks.