Vaccine Legal Policy - Federal and State Interactions - Dorit Reiss, LLB, PhD

Since the appointment of Secretary Kennedy to the Health and Human Services Department (HHS), HHS has aggressively worked to reshape vaccine policy. In the meantime, changes to the jurisprudence around religious freedom also affect what states can do in their immunization policy. This talk examines how the relationships between the states and the federal government have changed in this new legal environment. 

Dorit Rubinstein Reiss, LLB, PhD,  is a professor of law and the James Edgar Hervey Chair in Litigation at UC Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings). She specializes in vaccines law and policy, including exemption laws and tort liability related to non-vaccination. She published in law reviews, peer reviewed journals and blogs on legal and policy issues related to vaccines and co-authored a book on Vaccines Law and Policy with Professor Y. Tony Yang.

Her current research and activities focus on legal and policy issues related to vaccines. She writes about vaccines mandates, policy responses to non-vaccinating, tort issues and administrative issues related to vaccines, and the anti-vaccine movement.