Govind Persad

I am an Associate Professor with Tenure at the University of Colorado Law School. 

My health law research applies legal and philosophical methods to longstanding problems in bioethics and health policy. Recently, I have focused on the law and ethics of fairly allocating scarce medical resources. I am also interested in health insurance, pharmaceutical pricing and innovation policy, and the regulation of human subjects research.

Recently, I was selected as the 2025-27 Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics at the National Academy of Medicine. In addition to my scholarly research, I write the Law and Ethics column for the American Society for Clinical Oncology's ASCO Post. I have published op-eds in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Boston Globe.

I earned a JD from Stanford Law School and a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University, where I was a Stanford Interdisciplinary Graduate Fellow and a Student Fellow at the Center for Law and the Biosciences. After completing my JD, I clerked for the Hon. Carlos F. Lucero, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. Prior to graduate school, I was a fellow at the Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health.

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