Why Digital Contact Tracing Failed

The University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law is one of the oldest law schools in the nation, but its innovative programs make it one of the liveliest and most dynamic today. Maryland Carey Law is one of seven schools at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. It has taken advantage of this location to become an integral part of the Baltimore-Washington legal and business community.

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Professor Jessica L. Roberts will be presenting on why digital contact tracing failed during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. 

The Maryland Law Review is excited to invite you to its upcoming virtual discussion series: Emerging Issues in Biotechnology: Health, Food, Environment, and Intellectual Property. Each Tuesday in February will encompass one of four facets of biotechnology: health, food, environment, and intellectual property. During the first week (health week), Professor Jessica L. Roberts will be presenting on why digital contact tracing failed during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. She attributes that failure to the resemblance between digital contact tracing technologies and national security surveillance. However, Professor Roberts notes that regardless of these superficial similarities, digital contact tracing is a public health initiative that requires trust. She will offer suggestions for how stakeholders, including the tech industry, public health officials, the government, and regulators, might build that necessary trust in anticipation of future pandemics.Professor Roberts, an expert in genetics and health law, is the Director of the Health Law &amp; Policy Institute and the Leonard Childs Professor of Law at the University of Houston Law Center. She is also a Professor of Medicine at the University of Houston College of Medicine.

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