ASLME Board Adds Two New Directors
The American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics is pleased to announce the addition of two new members of our Board of Directors: Ross Silverman and Y. Tony Yang. Please join us in welcoming these two great additions to our leadership!
Ross D. Silverman, J.D., M.P.H., is professor of health services administration and policy and associate dean for faculty affairs at Temple University College of Public Health. He holds a secondary appointment as a professor at Temple University Beasley School of Law and is a member of the Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research.
Professor Silverman’s work focuses on public health; population health; health care technology; and health care law, policy and ethics. He also frequently teaches on issues related to negotiation and dispute resolution. He is particularly interested in how these areas affect the health and well-being of vulnerable populations. Professor Silverman is an internationally recognized expert on issues related to vaccination law, policy and ethics, and during the COVID-19 pandemic served as an advisor to local, state and national government and non-governmental organizations on vaccination access, hesitancy, mandates and exemptions. His COVID-19 scholarship also has included law, policy and ethics concerns related to contact tracing; quarantine and isolation; inequities arising in local, state, national and international response efforts; and ethical and legal issues associated with implementation of public health policy.
Professor Silverman is also a national leader in the field of policy surveillance and legal epidemiology: the study of variations in, and the impact of, law, its interpretation, and its implementation and enforcement on health outcomes and vulnerable populations. His recent work in this area has focused on how local (city and county) law address substance use and addiction, the effects of state policies on opioid treatment, use and opioid-related health outcomes. He also serves as an associate editor for legal epidemiology for the journal Public Health Reports, the official journal of the U.S. Surgeon General and the U.S. Public Health Service.
Y. Tony Yang, Sc.D., LL.M., M.P.H., is an endowed professor (with tenure) in Health Policy at the George Washington University School of Nursing with a joint appointment at the Milken Institute School of Public Health in the Department of Health Policy and Management. He is a Program Lead (Cancer Control and Health Equity) with the GW Cancer Center and an affiliate faculty with the GW Cancer Center and the District of Columbia Center for AIDS Research (DC CFAR). He is also the Associate Dean for Health Policy and Population Science.
His scholarship explores the effects of law and policy on health care delivery and population health outcomes. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an FDA Regulatory Science Fellow (jointly organized by the National Academy of Medicine), and a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-National Center of Health Statistics Health Policy Fellow.
Dr. Yang has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed articles. His first-authored work has appeared in leading medical (including New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA), health policy and services (including Health Affairs, Medical Care), public health (American Journal of Public Health, Public Health Reports), and health law (Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Food and Drug Law Journal) journals. He is the lead author of a book about vaccine policy published by Springer. The impact of his scholarship is observable in media coverage on outlets such as CNN, Fox News, National Public Radio, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, LA Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, USA Today and The Washington Post.
