Govind Persad

Govind Persad is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Law School. 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 the mitigation of health disparities. His teaching has included health law and bioethics courses as well as courses in private law areas.

Professor Persad has authored over 100 scholarly articles and book chapters. His recent scholarship 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 is the 2025-27 Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics at the National Academy of Medicine, and was previously a 2018-21 Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar in Bioethics and a recipient of the 2022 Baruch A. Brody Award in Bioethics. Professor Persad also serves as the Law and Ethics columnist for the ASCO Post (American Society of Clinical Oncology) and has published op-eds in venues including the New York Times and Washington Post, as well as providing expert commentary on health law topics in national media outlets.

Prior to Colorado Law, Professor Persad was on the faculties of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, and clerked for the Honorable Carlos F. Lucero, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, in Denver. He received a joint JD/PhD in philosophy from Stanford after completing a postbaccalaureate fellowship at the Department of Bioethics, National Institutes of Health.