Gail
H.
Javitt
Counsel
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GAIL H. JAVITT is Counsel in Sidley’s Food and Drug Regulatory practice. She joins Sidley from her post as the Law and Policy Director at the Genetics and Public Policy Center, at Johns Hopkins University. At the Center she was responsible for developing policy options to guide the development and use of reproductive technologies and led an initiative to improve oversight of genetic testing quality.
Ms. Javitt currently serves as a Research Scholar in the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University. She has also served as adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, and at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, and has taught courses including Genetics and Law and Food and Drug Law. She was a Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics and Health Policy at Johns Hopkins and Georgetown Universities. Prior to her academic career, she was an associate at a Washington, D.C. law firm where she specialized in FDA regulatory issues. She served as law clerk to the Honorable Gary L. Taylor, U.S. District Court, Central District of California. She has written extensively on a variety of issues at the intersection of law, science, and policy including direct-to-consumer marketing of genetic testing and FDA regulation of biotechnology.
She holds the Juris Doctor (J.D.),
cum laude, from Harvard Law School, a Masters of Public Health (M.P.H.) from the Johns Hopkins University and a B.A.,
magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Columbia College.
