Y. Tony Yang, ScD, LLM, MPH, is an endowed Professor of Health Policy (with tenure) at the George Washington University in the Washington, D.C. His main scholarly interest is in policy issues at the intersection of the legal and health systems, especially in vaccination policy. He takes an empirical approach to most of his research, blending methods from the econometrical and statistical sciences with more traditional legal research methods. He has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed articles. His first-authored work has appeared in leading journals, including NEJM, JAMA, Lancet, Health Affairs, and American Journal of Public Health. The impact of his scholarship is observable in media coverage such as CNN, NPR, NY Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal. He has been awarded more than $5.5 million U.S. federal grants as principal investigator. Also, he has been supported by various foundation funders as principal investigator, including Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Policy for Action, Interdisciplinary Research Leaders, and Public Health Law Research). He has received honors such as the Early Career Award for Excellence from American Public Health Association. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the MIT, FDA Regulatory Science Fellow (jointly organized by the National Academy of Medicine), and CDC-National Center of Health Statistics Health Policy Fellow. He is a member of AcademyHealth Education Council. He holds graduate degrees in Public Health (Harvard), Health Policy (Harvard), and Law (Penn).Dorit R. Reiss, PhD, is Professor of Law and the James Edgar Hervey '50 Chair of Litigation at UC Hastings Law, San Francisco. Her undergraduate degree in Law and Political Science (1999, Magna cum Laude) is from the Faculty of Law in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she served as Editor in Chief of the Law Review. Following graduation from law school, Professor Reiss clerked for a year and a half in the Israeli Ministry of Justice’s Department ofPublic Law, working on a variety of constitutional and administrative law issues. She received her Ph.D. from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program in UC Berkeley, writing her dissertation on accountability in the liberalized telecommunications and electricity sectors in England, France and Sweden. Since 2013, her research and activities are focused on legal and policy issues related to vaccines. She writes about school mandate, policy responses to non-vaccinating, tort issues and administrative issues related to vaccines.
