Annual Health Law Conference 2023

Misinformation on issues such as vaccination, masking, abortion, COVID-19, gender-affirming care, m-pox and opioids is spreading quickly on social media and web-based news channels. Such misinformation can exacerbate health inequities and pose problems for health privacy. This dynamic conference focused on how law and policy are instrumental in determining the response to ongoing health misinformation and will influence how healthcare and public health systems develop strategies promoting science.

Dr. Peter Hotez, an internationally recognized physician-scientist in neglected tropical diseases and vaccine development who serves as dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine and professor of pediatrics and molecular virology and microbiology at Baylor College of Medicine, delivered the conference keynote address.