Zita Lazzarini, JD, MPH teaches health law and bioethics at the University of Connecticut Health Center and the Harvard School of Public Health and directs the Division of Medical Humanities at University of Connecticut Health Center. The mission of the Division of in Medical Humanities is to advance knowledge about the medical humanities, health law, and ethics through teaching research and service in the community. Ms. Lazzarini has co-authored Human Rights and Public Health in the AIDS Pandemic, published by Oxford University Press in 1997. She has also co-authored national surveys on health information privacy, syringe-related laws, and HIV testing and counseling provisions which have appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). She is a member of Institutional Review Board (Human Subjects Research Committee) at the University of Connecticut Health Center, and a member of the clinical ethics committees at the Health Center and Hartford Hospital. She serves as a Special Consultant for the Center for Law and the Public's Health, at Johns Hopkins University, the Georgetown-Johns Hopkins Program on Law and Public Health and for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She has worked with the World Health Organization on projects involving HIV-related legislation, employment policies, and human rights. Ms. Lazzarini's areas of recent research include public health law, privacy and confidentiality, human subjects regulations, HIV prevention among pregnant women, and injection drug users, and health and human rights. She does local and statewide work on bioethics and HIV prevention. She lives in western Massachusetts with her husband and three boys, Ariel (12 years old), Lucca (9 years), and Salem (4).

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