Media

Podcasts and Radio

• Emily Largent and Govind Persad: Is bioethics ok? Bio(un)ethical, S2E19, February 27, 2025.

• What Makes American Healthcare (Un)affordable? RadioEd, University of Denver, January 29, 2024. 

• Govind Persad: How (not) to allocate resources during a pandemic, Bio(un)ethical, S1E2, September 5, 2023.

• Should we prioritize the unvaccinated for treatment? Govind Persad and Emily Largent, GeriPal – A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast, E219, May 26, 2022.

• Pandemics with Govind Persad, Taboo Trades, S2E5, March 20, 2022.

• Govind Persad. Talk is the Best Medicine Podcast–Global Health Impact project (December 29, 2021). 

• Kerry Sheridan (host). “Once rare, lung transplants for COVID-19 patients are rising quickly.” NPR - Weekend Edition (Sunday) (November 28, 2021). Discussed vaccine requirements for organ transplant patients.

• Jason Zimmerman, host. “Oncology Care in the Ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic: Expert Commentary.” The ASCO Post Podcast, episode 118, October 22, 2021.

• Will Stone (host). “Alabama Just Tossed 65,000 Vaccines. Turns Out It’s Not Easy To Donate Unused Doses.” NPR (August 10, 2021). 

• Will Stone (host). “Amid A Vast Need For Vaccines Worldwide, Millions of Doses In The U.S. Are Expiring.” NPR (August 2, 2021). 

• Andrew Kenney, Colorado Could Get A ‘Public Option.’ How’s That Working For The Only Other State To Try It? Colorado Public Radio (May 5, 2021). 

• Different Takes: Understanding Vaccine Hesitancy; Vaccine Equity More Important Than Passports, KFF Health News–Morning Briefing (April 8, 2021).

• Christiane Wisehart, host. “Vaccine Equity with Govind Persad.” Examining Ethics, The Janet Prindle Institute for Ethics at DePauw University, March 31, 2021.

•  “What are the Ethical Considerations When Deciding Who Gets the Coronavirus Vaccine First.” AirTalk with Larry Mantle (NPR 89.3 KPCC, Southern California) (August 6, 2020).

• “Who gets the ventilator?” Making the Call, episode no.1, March 27, 2020. 

Television and Video

• President Trump’s executive order targeting transgender people could be challenged, 9 News Denver (January 21, 2025).

• Centennial family feels scammed after son’s birth not covered by hospital indemnity insurance, Denver ABC Channel 7 (January 20, 2025). 

• Will Vaccine Hesitancy Over J&J Pause Threaten Global Public Health?, The Mehdi Hasan Show (MSNBC Online) (April 13, 2021).

• 360: Should employers mandate a COVID vaccine?, Denver ABC Channel 7 (February 17, 2021).

• Biden using power of executive orders in early days of presidency, The Denver Channel (News 7) (January 22, 2021)

• Maiken Scott (host). “The Quest for a Coronavirus Vaccine.” WHYY - Philadelphia - NPR affiliate (November 6, 2020)

• Emma Atkinson, host. “COVID-19 Vaccine: The Race for Relief.” RadioEd, season 1 episode 19, October 12, 2020.

• Once approved, should people be required to get a COVID-19 vaccine as a matter of public health?, Denver ABC News 7 (August 31, 2020). 

• The ethics of who gets COVID-19 care, who doesn’t, KDVR- Channel 2 (March 26, 2020). 

Print Mentions [see also op-eds]

• Gina Shaw, Drug Shortages: The Pharmacist’s Trolley Problem, Pharmacy Practice News (March 17, 2025).

• NewsRx COVID-19 Daily (October 30, 2023).

• Philip Kiefer, Omicron boosters are the future of COVID vaccines in the US, Popular Science (September 5, 2022). Quoted regarding COVID booster efficacy. 

• Jeannie Baumann, Monkeypox Emergency Clearance Excludes Siga’s Tpoxx Medicine, Bloomberg Law (August 11, 2022). Discussed access to antiviral medications for monkeypox.

• Philip Kiefer, What 1 million COVID deaths looks like from the frontlines, Popular Science (May 21, 2022). Quoted in retrospective on 1 million U.S. Covid deaths.

• Dean Golembeski, Colleges Unlikely to Require COVID Vaccine Booster Shots: Survey, Best Colleges (May 11, 2022). Quoted in article on college covid-19 booster requirements.

• Opinion: Vaccines for Children Are Important, The Washington Post (February 22, 2022).

• Melody Schreiber, US parents of under-fives clamor for off-label use over Covid vaccine delays, The Guardian (UK) (February 17, 2022). Discussed access to vaccines for children under 5.

• Amanda Morris and Maggie Astor, Vulnerable to the Virus, High-Risk Americans Feel Pain as the U.S. Moves On, New York Times (February 17, 2022). Discussed policies to protect high-risk Americans from covid-19.

•  Dan Goldberg, Surgeon general’s warning: Kids get Covid, Too, Politico (February 15, 2022). Discussed COVID-19 vaccine approvals for children under 5.

• Different Takes: Let’s Examine Omicron Subvariant BA.2; How To Allocate Limited Supply Of Covid Therapeutics, Kaiser Health News. (February 3, 2022). 

• Triage all covid patients as normal, even unvaccinated ones, The Washington Post (February 02, 2022). Reply to our op-ed

• Philip Kiefer, Who gets an organ transplant? Waitlist rules are complicated, Popular Science (February 3, 2022). Discussed COVID-19 vaccine requirements for transplant patients.

• Amanda Morris, When Three Shots Are Not Enough, The New York Times. (January 3, 2022). Discussed legality of people receiving multiple booster doses with reporter.

• Alex Brown and Matt Vasilogambros, Booster Mandates Are a Tough Call for States, Businesses, Stateline (Pew Charitable Trusts) (December 16, 2021). Discussed booster vaccine requirements.

• Todd N. Tucker, Price Controls: How the US Has Used Them And How They Can Help Shape Industries, Roosevelt Institute Issue Brief (November 2021). Work quoted in Roosevelt Institute Issue Brief on pharmaceutical pricing.

• CQ Roll Call, FDA to sidestep advisers on approval for expanding COVID booster shot eligibility, Bangor Daily News (November 17, 2021). Discussed booster authorization process.

• Legu Zhang, China Distorts US Hurdles in Donating Expiring COVID-19 Vaccines, Polygraph (Voice of America) (October 29, 2021). Work on donation of expiring COVID-19 vaccines quoted in article.

• Sophie Austin, Once again, some states are choosing who gets COVID-19 care, Center for Public Integrity (October 7, 2021). Discussed allocation of scarce medical resources for covid-19.

• Elisabeth Buchwald, A critical question more patients are asking their health providers: Are you vaccinated?, MarketWatch (October 6, 2021). Discussed legality and HIPAA compliance allowability of asking medical care providers their vaccination status.

• Michelle Robertson, Here’s what medical experts and ethicists say about healthy people getting COVID booster shots, SFGate (SF Chronicle) (October 2, 2021). Discussed booster shot receipt by healthy adults with SFGate.

• Di Caelers, Greater Good, JSE Magazine (Johannesburg Stock Exchange) (October 1, 2021). Quoted regarding financial incentives for COVID-19 vaccination.

• Scott Duke Kominers, World Can Have Covid Boosters and Its First Doses, Too, Bloomberg (September 28, 2021).

• Sarah Karlin-Smith, Biden’s Trump Moment? COVID Booster Messaging Complicated After Top FDA Scientists Raise Doubts, Pink Sheet (September 13, 2021). Discussed booster authorization with Sarah Karlin Smith at Pink Sheet (trade publication; paywall, available via Lexis).

• Pien Huang (host). “Health Care Providers Are Warned Not To Give COVID Vaccines Beyond Recommendations.” NPR Morning Edition (September 1, 2021). Discussed legality and ethical issues related to off-label provision of boosters and pediatric vaccines with NPR Morning Edition.

• Adam Rogers, Vaccine Mandates Work—but Only If They’re Done Right, Wired Magazine (August 26, 2021).

•  Leana S. Wen, It’s good to resume the J&J vaccine. But younger women should be warned against it, The Washington Post (August 24, 2021).

• Nicole Abe, Heiner Hoffmann, Jan Petter, and Sonja Peteranderl, Why millions of vaccine doses end up in the trash worldwide, Der Spiegel (August 24, 2021). Discussed COVID-19 vaccine waste with a German publication, Der Spiegel.

• Jeannie Baumann, Full Pfizer Vaccine Approval Stirs Questions Over Off-Label Uses, Bloomberg Law (August 23, 2021). Discussed legal and ethical issues in off-label vaccination.

• Sarah Karlin-Smith, Full Approval Without Some Benefits: FDA Cautions Against Off-Label Use Of Pfizer’s COVID-19 Vaccine For Children, Boosters, Pink Sheet (August 23, 2021). 

•  Opinion: A Foolhardy Plan for Booster Trials, The Washington Post (August 22, 2021).

• Emma Court, Biden’s Booster Push Is Fresh Challenge for Vaccine Providers, Bloomberg News (August 19, 2021). Discussed booster plan with Bloomberg (reporter - Emma Court).



• Bob Herman, The ethics of vaccine booster shots, Axios (August 18, 2021). 

• Allison Bowen, Is it ethical to offer prize money to people who waited to get vaccinated?, Chicago Tribune (August 9, 2021). Research quoted in Chicago Tribune article.

• Emily Kopp and Sandhya Raman, Biden bid for federal workers to get COVID-19 shots prompts debate, CQ Roll Call (July 28 2021).

• Cara Bates, As State Anti-Vax Laws Pass, Mandate Suits Poised To Evolve, Law360 (July 15, 2021).

• Jon Cohen, ‘It’s a tipping point’: Flood of COVID-19 vaccine donations buoys mood at WHO, Sciencemag (June 17, 2021).

• Ved Nanda, In the U.S. we must reject vaccine nationalism, Denver Post (June 4, 2021).

• Stephanie Baker, James Paton, The World’s Best Hope to End the Pandemic Still Needs More Doses, Bloomberg (June 2, 2021).

•  Perspectives: How Long Will The Vaccine Protect Us?; Parents Need Clear Advice Regarding Covid And Kids, Kaiser Health News–Morning Briefing. (May 24, 2021).

• COVID vaccine: Mandate Legalities, Capital Journal (May 11, 2021).

• Sue Sutter, Pfizer/BioNTech’s COVID-19 Vaccine Moves Into Adolescents; Adcomm To Weigh Broader Pediatric Issues, Pink Sheet (May 10, 2021).

• Emily Kopp, Biden urges at least 70 percent of US adults to get first shot by July 4, Roll Call (May 4, 2021).

• James Surowiecki, Did the Costs of Pausing the J&J Vaccine Outweigh the Benefits?,  Medium (April 25, 2021). 

• Adam Rogers, A Vaccine Can Be Bad for a Person but Awesome for All People, Wired (April 23, 2021). 

• Derrick Gingery, US FDA’s Search For Class-Wide Vaccine Blood-Clot Effect Makes Scientific Sense, But Raises Questions, Pink Sheet (April 21, 2021).

• Peter Schorsch, Sunburn–The morning read of what’s hot in Florida politics, Florida Politics (April 20, 2021).

• Dr. Steven Bradley, Extending the J&J Vaccine Pause: A Deadly Mistake, The Black Doctors Podcast, episode 16, April 20, 2021.

• Was The Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Pause A Deadly Idea? WGBH-Boston (April 20, 2021)

• David Leonhardt, Serious and Rare: Will Halting Use of a Shot Do More Harm or Good?, New York Times (April 15, 2021).

•  Is it time for the US to delay second Covid-19 shots?, Advisory board (Initially posted April 14, 2021, updated March 20, 2023). Mentioned regarding COVID vaccines op-ed in USA Today.

• Emily Kopp, White House resists pressure to space out COVID-19 vaccine doses, Roll Call (April 13, 2021).

• David Leonhardt, The Morning Newsletter: How to Double the Vaccination Pace, New York Times (April 13, 2021).

• Different Takes: Understanding Vaccine Hesitancy; Vaccine Equity More Important Than Passports, KFF Health News–Morning Briefing (April 8, 2021).

• Max Fisher, Europe’s ethical decision on vaccination: don’t hurt or let more people die?, New York Times (March 26, 2021).

• Marisa Fernandez, “Vaccine tourism” stretches states’ supplies,” Axios (March 5, 2021).

• Kristel Tjandra, Experts balance equity and efficiency in aiming for ethical vaccine distribution, Stanford Daily (February 27, 2021).

• Matt Blois, Medically Necessary: Making the vaccine supply chain work for communities of color, FreightWaves (February 23, 2021). 

• Matt Blois, Medically Necessary: Winter storm delays, FEMA vaccination sites, supply chain for superspreaders, Freight Waves (February 18, 2021).

• Matthew L.M. Fletcher, Govind Persad on Allocating Medicine Fairly in an Unfair Pandemic, Turtle Talk (February 9, 2021).

• Jenn McCoy, Vaccine Guilt is Real. Here’s How to Deal, According to Local Ethicists,  5280 Magazine (February 3, 2021).

• Nicole Karlis, Despite attempts at equity, white Americans are being vaccinated at higher rate than Blacks, Latinos, Salon (January 28, 2021).

• Deanna Pan, From Front Lines to Front of Vaccine Line, Boston Globe (Dec. 26, 2020).

• Melanie Evans, Hospitals Confront Tensions Over Who Gets First Covid-19 Vaccines, Wall Street Journal (December 22, 2020).

• Elizabeth Buchwald, America’s 1% will be pulling out all the stops to get their hands on COVID-19 vaccine, MarketWatch (December 11, 2020). 

• Michael Konopasek, In many cases, people can be fired for refusing COVID-19 vaccine, KDVR: Fox News (Dec. 9, 2020).

• Amanda Paulson, As vaccines roll out, states face difficult questions over access, Christian Science Monitor (December 8, 2020). 

• Hank Lacey, Obamacare Case Argued at High Court, Law Week Colorado (November 6, 2020). 

• Jeannie Baumann, A Fake Shot May Be Your Ticket to the Front of the Vaccine Line, Bloomberg Law (August 14, 2020).

• Jo Cavallo, Perspectives on How the Covid-19 Pandemic is Impacting Oncology Care, The ASCO Post (American Society for Clinical Oncology) (May 25, 2020). 

• Lindsay Whitehurst, Coronavirus crisis exacts toll on people with disabilities, Associated Press (May 6, 2020).

• Liz Essley Whyte, State policies may send people with disabilities to the back of the line for ventilators, Center for Public Integrity (April 8, 2020)

• Joanne Faryon, Nursing Homes Have Thousands of Ventilators that Hospitals Desperately Need, LA Times (interview quotes)

• Martha Will, Individual Rights vs. the Common Good in the Age of COVID-19, Denver Front Porch News (April 1, 2020).

• Colorado doctors finalize guidelines for who would get treatment if hospitals become overrun, KMGH-TV - Denver ABC Channel 7 (April 1, 2020). 

• Jennifer Kovaleski, Colorado doctors finalize guidelines for who would get treatment if hospitals become overrun, Denver ABC Channel 7 (April 1, 2020).

• Jyoti Madhusoodanan, Experts Race to Set Rules For Deciding Who Lives and Who Dies, Undark Magazine (March 29, 2020).

• Gregory Barber, Ventilator Markers Race to Prevent a Possible Shortage, Wired Magazine (March 18, 2020). 

• Emmarie Heutteman, And Then There Were Two: Biden, Sanders Debate With Coronavirus On Everyone’s Mind, KFF Health News (March 16, 2020).

• Gregory Barber, AI Needs Your Data—and You Should Get Paid for It, Wired. (August 8, 2019).

• Expanding Organ Procurement May Not Be Ethical or Cost-Effective, Medical Bag (May 23, 2019).

• Nina Avramova, Unethical experiments’ painful contributions to today’s medicine, CNN (January 9, 2019).

• Bradley Segal, Prioritizing Patients: How algorithms can promote just resource allocation, Harvard Medical School (Sept. 1, 2017)

• Ekaterina Bogyreva, The ethics of providing “second best” treatments in developing nations, University of Oslo Institute of Health and Society (Oct. 5, 2016).

• Brenda Wang, Penn prof proposes legalizing sale of kidneys, The Daily Pennsylvanian (Nov. 24, 2013).

• D'Angelo Gore, ‘Deadly Doctor’?, FactCheck.org (Aug. 14, 2009).

• Robert Farley, Bachmann says Obama health adviser thinks health care ought not to be extended to the disabled, PolitiFact (Aug. 12, 2009)  

• Sarah Auerbach, Come for Dinner, Stay for Life, Amherst Magazine (Summer 2009).