Current Topics in Privacy Seminar: Melissa Goldstein

Melissa Goldstein is a Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University and a national expert in health information privacy and security law and ethics. Goldstein is an advisory board member of the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) and a former member of the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), the statutory public advisory body to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) for health data, statistics, privacy, and national health information policy and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). She also co-chaired the NCVHS privacy, confidentiality, and security subcommittee. In 2015-2016, Goldstein served as the Assistant Director for Bioethics and Privacy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Previously, she served as a senior advisor to the Chief Privacy Officer in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, HHS. Professor Goldstein teaches courses in health policy and management, bioethics, and public health ethics (including genomics, privacy, reproductive ethics, end-of-life, and research ethics issues), health information technology policy, data and AI ethics, and public health law and conducts research on privacy and security legal issues and the legal, policy, and governance aspects of health information technology, big data, and AI. Co-sponsored by the Master’s in Privacy Engineering and AI Governance Program and Carnegie Bosch Institute. Select seminars throughout the semester are also co-sponsored by the Block Center for Technology and Society.