Annas holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard College, a J.D.
from the Harvard School of Public Health, where he was a Joseph P. Kennedy Fellow in Medical Ethics.
He works the field of health law, bioethics, and human rights.
[1] Annas is the cofounder of Global Lawyers and Physicians,[2] a transnational professional NGO that states it is dedicated to promoting human rights and health.
[1] He is a Hastings Center fellow, a former member of the National Academy of Medicine, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, and a member of the National Academies' Committee on Human Rights.