Vaccination Equity by Design

Authors

Olatunde C.A. Johnson, Columbia Law SchoolFollow
Kristen Underhill, Cornell Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2021

Abstract

This Essay examines how states’ initial COVID-19 vaccine-distribution strategies tended to disadvantage populations of color, including Black, Latinx, and Native American communities. These dynamics resonate with “inverse equity” effects of other public-health innovations. We argue for a federal regulatory framework to reduce inequity-forcing effects during initial vaccine rollout.

Disciplines

Civil Rights and Discrimination | Food and Drug Law | Health Law and Policy | Law

Center/Program

Center for Constitutional Governance

Recommended Citation

Olatunde C. Johnson & Kristen Underhill, Vaccination Equity by Design, 131 Yale L. J. F. 53 (2021).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/2824