Professor Katz Discusses Hep-C Inmate Litigation and Lessons for Dealing with COVID-19 in Prison Populations
07/02/2021
Robert Katz , IU McKinney Professor of Law and John S. Grimes Fellow, recently gave presentations on the legal standard for treating inmates infected with Hep-C and its lessons for prison systems attempting to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic in their populations.
On June 9, 2021, Professor Katz virtually presented this topic to health law scholars and teachers at the 44th Annual Health Law Professors Conference as part of a panel on incarceration as a public health issue. This conference, organized by the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, is the "must attend" event of the year for those teaching in the health law field. On April 28, 2021, Professor Katz gave an hour-long virtual presentation on this topic to prison administrators and correctional health providers attending the 2021 Spring Conference on Correctional Health Care. The conference was organized by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, whose mission is to improve the quality of inmate health care in correctional facilities and to set standards for health services in correctional facilities.
Professor Katz is one of the nation’s leading experts on Hep-C inmate litigation, a topic he has explored in "Hepatitis C Litigation: Health Inmates as a Public Health Strategy," published by the Annals of Health Law (Spring 2020) and as co-counsel in Stafford v. Carter (S.D. Ind.), a class-action lawsuit to compel the Indiana Department of Correction to provide life-saving treatment to inmates infected with Hep-C. he is Affiliate Faculty for the IU Center for Bioethics.
