A federal judge has issued a sweeping preliminary injunction blocking RFK Jr.’s changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, with Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law among those filing briefs challenging the scientific validity of the assessment HHS relied upon to justify the alterations.

“Attacks on civilian infrastructure can be considered a violation of international law under the terms of the Geneva Conventions, a set of treaties and protocols that form the basis of international humanitarian law,” Professor Zinaida Miller tells Northeastern Global News. 

In a piece for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Professor Hilary Robinson draws on personal experience to examine how healthcare apps and platforms distance us from care: “In the absence of a structure that imposes human concerns on software, people will end up trapped in these systems that are optimized in actively harmful ways.”