Michelle Mello is Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine. She conducts empirical research into issues at the intersection of law, ethics, and health policy. She has authored approximately 250 articles on medical liability, public health law, the public health response to COVID-19, pharmaceuti­cals and vaccines, biomedical research ethics and governance, health information privacy, and other topics. The recipient of a number of awards for her research, she was elected to the National Academy of Medicine at the age of 40. Mello holds an M.Phil. in Comparative Social Research from the University of Oxford, a J.D. from the Yale Law School, and a Ph.D. in Health Policy and Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her email address is mmello@law.stanford.edu.