He doesn’t wear a cape. He doesn’t have a superpower. He doesn’t have some kind of time machine or crystal ball. What James Hodge ’89 does have, however, is the capacity to help save and improve millions of lives around the globe.
As a public health lawyer and a national expert on emergency legal preparedness and ethics, vaccine laws and policies and other legal areas, Hodge has the connections that are needed to make grand, sweeping changes affecting not just medical and legal policy, but entire communities.
“I’ve been fortunate to build some extremely strong relationships – and to work collaboratively with others to achieve some great improvements in public health,” says Hodge, who studied business administration and philosophy at the Honors College before earning his J.D. and his LL.M. and, later, teaching at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Now a professor with and director of the Public Health Law and Policy Program at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Hodge has taught public law and ethics classes globally – and last summer came back to his alma mater to teach at the Honors College.
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