Govind Persad is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. His research applies bioethical and distributive justice frameworks to law in order to address problems at the interface of health law and policy, including the allocation of scarce medical resources; pharmaceutical pricing and access; health insurance design; and legal contestation over health equity.
Professor Persad has authored over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters. His recent work appears in law journals including the Michigan Law Review, Iowa Law Review, and Emory Law Journal as well as peer-reviewed journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, JAMA, and Science. He was a 2018-21 Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in Bioethics and received the 2022 Baruch A. Brody Award in Bioethics. Professor Persad is also the Law and Ethics columnist for the ASCO Post and has published op-eds in the New York Times and Washington Post. Prior to his current positions, he was on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health; clerked for the Honorable Carlos F. Lucero, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit; received his JD and PhD from Stanford University; and was a postbaccalaureate fellow at the Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health.
In Fall 2025, Professor Persad will join the faculty at the University of Colorado Law School.