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Professor Silverman's Piece on "Social Distancing and the Unvaccinated" Published in NEJM
03/26/2015
Professor Ross Silverman’s latest piece titled “Social Distancing and the Unvaccinated” has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The piece examines whether children who are unvaccinated for religious reasons can be excluded from school during an outbreak of a vaccine preventable illness without violating constitutional rights. The outbreak of measles at Disneyland in December 2014, and a case in a New York federal appellate court are also part of the discussion. Silverman will be speaking about this topic as part of a panel discussion during the March 27 Hall Center for Law and Health and Indiana Health Law Review Symposium “Medical Myths: Exploring Effectiveness, Misinformation and Scientific Rigor.”
Silverman is professor of health policy and management at the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health at IUPUI. He is a professor of public health and law (secondary appointment) at IU McKinney.
