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Oct 04, 2024
Maylia and Jack:A Story of Teens and Fentanyl
“It’s impossible to know how many teens in the country are being charged with drug-induced homicide. There is no national database, many states do not aggregate cases, and when prosecutors file in juvenile court, the records are sealed. As a result, there’s been almost no scrutiny of how these laws are used against kids,” Katie McCreedy ’21, a predoctoral fellow with the Action Lab at Northeastern Law’s Center of Health Policy and Law, tells ProPublica. “How can young people in media stories be simultaneously assumed to know nothing about how deadly the drugs are and also held accountable for homicide?”
Sep 25, 2024
Northeastern Law Announces New Center for Global Law and Justice
Northeastern University School of Law is pleased to announce the launch of a new Center for Global Law and Justice (CGLJ), which employs innovative and collaborative approaches to address the most urgent global challenges of our time.
Sep 23, 2024
Constitution Day Lecture Dives into the Muddy Reality of Free Speech, Public Health and the First Amendment
Northeastern Global News reports on Professor Claudia Haupt’s Constitution Day speech, which looked at the intersection of free speech, the First Amendment and public health, “an area of law humming with activity.”
Sep 18, 2024
Is the ‘Lung Float Test’ Accurate? Northeastern Law Professor Is Leading an Effort To Discredit ‘Bad Science’
Northeastern Global News interviews Professor Daniel Medwed, co-leader of the Floating Lung Research Test Group, a team of lawyers and medical professionals who are studying the medical underpinnings of the controversial lung float test, to determine whether it should be used in court.
Sep 12, 2024
Northeastern Law Receives Top Rankings for Legal Technology, Women in Leadership, Health Law and Human Rights
In recognition of its national leadership in preparing students for lawyering, Northeastern University School of Law received several top rankings in the 2024 “back to school” issue of preLaw magazine.
Aug 19, 2024
Elaine Marshall ’22 Joins Salus Populi Judicial Education Program as Research Scientist
Elaine Marshall ’22 has joined Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law’s Salus Populi: Educating the Judiciary about the Social Determinants of Health, as a research scientist.
Aug 16, 2024
Eden Avraham-Katz ’15 | 2024 Emerging Leaders in Healthcare
Eden Avraham-Katz ’15, general counsel at 1upHealth, a healthcare data interoperability company in Boston, is profiled as an Emerging Leader in Healthcare by Managed Healthcare Executive.
Aug 16, 2024
After My Brother’s Overdose Death, Misinformed People Added to Our Grief
The New York Times cites The Action Lab’s research on media misinformation about fentanyl, as well as its SHIELD (Safety and Health Integration in the Enforcement of Laws on Drugs) training program for law enforcement officials.
Aug 06, 2024
Professor Kristin Madison Named Associate Dean for Academic Programs
Professor Kristin Madison has been appointed to the new role of Associate Dean for Academic Programs at Northeastern Law.
Jul 31, 2024
Free Speech versus Public Health: The Role of Social Media (Part One)
Check out the first installation of Professor Claudia Haupt’s Bill of Health blog on free speech and social media versus public health, in which she discusses the most recent Supreme Court decisions in Murthy v. Missouri, NRA v. Vullo, NetChoice and the Surgeon General’s call for warning labels on social media.
Jul 25, 2024
Wendy Parmet Became a Public Health Giant. In True Northeastern Fashion, It Started With a Co-op
Northeastern Global News shines a spotlight on Professor Wendy Parmet’s illustrious career and her emergence as a leading authority on disability and public health policy in the United States — from AIDS to COVID-19.
Jul 24, 2024
Loper Bright and the Death of Deference in the Administration of Health Policy
In her new Forefront article for HealthAffairs, Professor Wendy Parmet argues that the Supreme Court’s repeal of Chevron deference will invite regulated industries to challenge government regulations, and make it far more difficult for agencies to protect the nation’s health.
Jul 03, 2024
Mass. Sees Largest Decline in Opioid-Related Deaths in More Than a Decade
“The disparities between white and nonwhite communities are widening,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of The Action Lab at Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law tells The Boston Globe. “That’s part of a larger pattern of health disparities”
Jun 10, 2024
What Can Trump do About Vaccines? More Than You Might Think.
“Imagine what happens if CDC guidance changes to, ‘Vaccination is a question for families. CDC recommends that families talk to their provider or minister about vaccines,’ and doesn’t recommend anything…. Some state laws are going to change with a blink of an eye,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells Politico.
May 22, 2024
What Are Vampire Facials? Do They Work? And What Went Wrong in the Procedures Linked to HIV?
Professor David Simon says to “do your homework” and rely on medical professionals if considering a vampire facial. “It’s not like buying toilet paper off Amazon.”
May 07, 2024
Abortion Pill Cases Test Whether FDA Rules Preempt State Limits
“The relationship between the FDA’s regulatory power and the state’s power to regulate the practice of medicine is a complicated one,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells Bloomberg Law. “And the FDA’s involvement in mifepristone is much more complex than with most medications.”
Apr 19, 2024
Mid-Michigan Community Leaders Learn Mass Shooting Prevention, Preparedness
UnitedOnGuns, an initiative of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, led a discussion on mass shooting preparedness and prevention in Lansing, Michigan, this week at a forum organized by the Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
Apr 03, 2024
Abortion Case Could Harm Womens’ Health and Upset Pharma Markets
Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, says the Supreme Court’s decision on access to the mifepristone abortion pill could have significant effects on reproductive health and the pharmaceutical industry.
Mar 24, 2024
After Court Upholds Brookline Ban, Other Towns Appear Poised to Adopt Generational Restrictions on Tobacco
Mark Gottlieb ’93, executive director of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, joined WBUR’s Radio Boston to discuss the town of Brookline’s first-in-the-nation tobacco ban and whether other municipalities may follow suit.
Mar 24, 2024
There’s Only One Syphilis Medication for Pregnant People. And the Supply Is Running Out. What Can the Government Do To Help?
Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for HealthGAP, says the government has a role to play in solving the shortage of the only medication that can treat syphilis in pregnant people.
Mar 19, 2024
Federal Sports Betting Bill Is Introduced With Assist From Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute
With the support of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, new federal legislation to regulate sports betting as a public health issue has been proposed. The SAFE Bet Act will offer regulation to protect people in the U.S. from gambling-related harm in the new era of high-tech sports betting.
Read more in Northeastern Global News!
Mar 11, 2024
Overdose or Poisoning? A New Debate Over What to Call a Drug Death.
“Language is really important because it shapes policy and other responses,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of The Action Lab at Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The New York Times.
Mar 11, 2024
Brookline’s Historic Law to Phase Out All Tobacco Sales is Affirmed by the Massachusetts High Court
Kudos to Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) on successfully defending Brookline’s Nicotine Free Generation (NFG) law to phase out tobacco sales! The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court gave the green light to the life-saving policy in a unanimous decision last week.
Mar 07, 2024
The Fight Over I.V.F. is Only Beginning
“They’ll say, ‘Life begins at fertilization,’ but that’s not really what it’s about,” Professor Katherine Kraschel tells The New Yorker. “It’s about constraining people’s decision-making once they have something in their body.”
Mar 07, 2024
Extension of COVID-19 Vaccine Waiver Uncertain After WTO Conference
“If the Pandemic Accord doesn’t include clear and comprehensive provisions allowing low- and middle–income countries to overcome Big Pharma’s monopoly control over supply, price, and distribution of vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics, we’ll see the savage inequity of COVID-19 and AIDS repeated in the next pandemic,” says Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for HealthGAP.
Mar 06, 2024
Mifepristone Abortion Pills to Be Carried at CVS, Walgreens. Here’s What Could Happen Next
“If the Supreme Court upholds the lower court decision that said the FDA acted unlawfully, it would no longer be legal for mifepristone to be mailed or for retail pharmacies to dispense it,” Professor Katherine Kraschel tells USA Today.
Mar 03, 2024
CVS and Walgreens to Start Selling Abortion Pills This Month
”The announcement by CVS and Walgreens offers the hope of expanded access to reproductive health care for patients in states that permit abortion. However, later this month, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a review of a decision by the Fifth Circuit that would dramatically restrict access to mifepristone,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law tells CBS MoneyWatch. “If the Supreme Court upholds the lower court’s order, the expanded access promised by today’s order will be short-lived.”
Mar 02, 2024
What Does Alabama’s IVF Ruling Mean for Massachusetts?
Watch: On GBH’s Greater Boston, Professor Katherine Kraschel discusses the implications of the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling that frozen embryos used for in-vitro fertilization are children.
Feb 29, 2024
The 19th Explains: Will States Follow Alabama in Ending IVF Access?
“People are wise to think carefully about the risks involved in keeping their embryos stored in abortion-restrictive states that either have personhood or are contemplating personhood,” Professor Katherine Kraschel tells The 19th News. “Like so many other things involving reproduction it’s a very personal choice, and they should talk to their providers about benefits and risks.”
Feb 29, 2024
‘I’m Living Proof of Why IVF Is So Necessary.’ Bills Aiming To Protect IVF Treatment Move Forward in Alabama Legislature
Until new legislation or policy is implemented in Alabama, many providers have their hands tied, Professor Katherine Kraschel tells CNN. The only thing we can say with certainty is that now (providers) have exorbitantly more civil liability than they did before this case. The rest is a big unknown abyss of liability.”
Feb 28, 2024
The Underutilization of Paxlovid
“We simply have to do more to overcome patent and trade secret barriers, to expand production, to lower prices, and to distribute global public goods equitably to all in need,” Professor Brook Baker tells NU Sci, Northeastern University’s student-run science magazine.
Feb 26, 2024
Alabama Says Embryos in a Lab Are Children. What Are the Implications?
Is the Alabama embryonic personhood case headed to the U.S. Supreme Court? Professor Katherine Kraschel, an expert on reproductive law, comments for The New York Times.
Feb 21, 2024
Allyson Crays ’24 Awarded Maeve McKean Fellowship
Allyson Crays ’24 has been selected as a 2024 Maeve McKean Women’s Law and Public Policy–O’Neill Institute Fellow.
Feb 15, 2024
Pandemic Accord Hoax Highlights Blatant Hypocrisy of US and EU Approach to Big Pharma
“If the Pandemic Accord doesn’t include clear and comprehensive provisions allowing low- and middle–income countries to overcome Big Pharma’s monopoly control over supply, price, and distribution of vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics, we’ll see the savage inequity of COVID-19 and AIDS repeated in the next pandemic,” says Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for Health GAP.
Feb 14, 2024
DNA Test Kit Horror Story
“It gives me great pause … to say we want the government to try to step in and regulate what amounts to a reproductive choice,” Professor Katherine Kraschel tells CNN Investigates.
Feb 13, 2024
Hospitals Deny Immunocompromised Patients’ ADA Requests For Masks
Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, comments for Forbes.
Feb 06, 2024
Sports Betting Boom Fuels Concerns Over Problem Gambling
On CBS’ 60 Minutes, professors Dick Daynard and Mark Gottlieb, president and executive director of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI), respectively, and gambling addiction therapist Harry Levant, talk about the work they are doing to “wage war against mobile gambling addiction.”
Jan 31, 2024
WTO Appears Close To Rejecting a Proposed Waiver on Patents for COVID Diagnostics and Therapies
By pursuing a lengthy delay, the Biden administration robbed the WTO of the momentum needed for a vote Professor Brook Baker, a senior policy analyst for the HealthGAP advocacy group, tells STAT.
Jan 30, 2024
Narcan Saves Lives — But Finding It Can Be Onerous in Massachusetts
“The risk of overdosing is burden enough,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells The Boston Globe. “People looking for [Narcan] shouldn’t face the additional burden of having to ask five people to find a life-saving product.”
Jan 26, 2024
Should Doctors Who Are Public Officials Have the Right To Spread Medical Misinformation to the General Public?
Professors Claudia Haupt and Wendy Parmet say bad medical advice has proliferated since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and physician officials who dispense it should face consequences.
Jan 16, 2024
South Africa, Colombia and Others Are Fighting Drugmakers Over Access to TB and HIV Drugs
Poorer countries are trying to become more self-reliant “because they’ve realized after COVID they can’t count on anyone else,” Professor Brook Baker, policy analyst for Health GAP, tells the Associated Press.
Jan 11, 2024
Will ‘Texas Tough’ Work in Fighting Fentanyl Fatalities?
The theory that arresting high-level dealers will prevent fatal drug overdoses “has never been [supported by] any kind of empirical evidence,” says Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of The Action Lab at the Center for Health Policy and Law.
Jan 05, 2024
Activists Take Aim at New Target: Childhood Vaccine Mandates
“The coronavirus pandemic, and in particular the arrival of Justice Amy Coney Barrett on the Supreme Court, brought a dramatic shift in public health jurisprudence — especially in cases involving religious liberty,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The New York Times.
Jan 04, 2024
Abortion Pill Advance Orders Face Risky Future in Court Battle
Professor Wendy Parmet tells Bloomberg Law strict bans in conservative states have “provoked a kind of black market” around abortion drugs post-Dobbs. “The more you restrict lawful access, the more likely it is that people are going to rely on other sources, and that can be dangerous.”
Jan 02, 2024
Does the First Amendment Protect Doctors Who Spread COVID-19 Misinformation?
“It’s critical for physicians to speak outside of the doctor-patient relationship and convey information that may not yet be widely accepted but when they give bad information, and do so in a way that will live on their medical authority to do so, they should be subject to sanction,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells First Amendment Watch.
Jan 02, 2024
Is Spreading Medical Misinformation a Physician’s Free Speech Right? It’s Complicated
“On platforms like YouTube and TikTok, doctors basically are like any other person,” Professor Claudia Haupt tells the Association of American Medical Colleges. “The underlying principle is that it’s so important to a democracy not to allow the state to restrict free speech that it’s worth living with some terrible advice floating around.”
Dec 18, 2023
With DNA Testing and More Safeguards, Fertility Fraud Less Likely To Happen Today
”“Hyperregulating’’ to try to catch a few outliers could make [fertility] treatment even more costly and worsen disparities in access,” Professor Katherine Kraschel tells The Boston Globe.
Dec 17, 2023
A College Will Reopen the Site of a Campus Shooting. Some Aren’t Ready.
“The source of the right answer comes from the community you seek to support,” Sarah Peck ’96, director of PHAI’s #UnitedOnGuns initiative, tells The Washington Post.
Dec 09, 2023
Targeting Online Gambling, Northeastern Lawyer Who Fought Big Tobacco Sues Draftkings
Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) has filed a class action in Massachusetts against DraftKings for deceptive marketing. “The problem we’re facing today and which we’ll be realizing over the next few years will be all the problems stemming from gambling addictions,” Professor Richard Daynard, president of PHAI, tells The Boston Globe.
Dec 08, 2023
Public Health Advocacy Institute Files Class Action Against Draftkings in Massachusetts
Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) and its Center for Public Health Litigation filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of Massachusetts citizens who opened DraftKings Sportsbook accounts in response to a $1,000 bonus sign-up promotion that the gambling company widely advertised.
Dec 08, 2023
PHAI Argues for Brookline Tobacco Ban at SJC
Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) is representing the Town of Brookline in a case before the Mass. SJC challenging the town’s first-in-the-nation bylaw that prohibits sales of tobacco or e-cigarettes to anyone born in the 21st century.
Dec 07, 2023
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Donates $1 Million to Salus Populi Judicial Education Program
Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law (CHPL), in collaboration with Northeastern University Bouvé College of Health Sciences’ Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research, has received $1 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to support and expand upon Salus Populi, the nation’s first education program for judges that provides critical information about the social determinants of health.
Dec 04, 2023
Greenhouse Calls Parmet’s Book “Provocative and Illuminating” in The New York Review
Congratulations to Professor Wendy Parmet, whose new book, Constitutional Contagion: Covid, the Courts, and Public Health, receives a glowing review by Linda Greenhouse in the Dec. 21, 2023, issue of The New York Review.
Nov 26, 2023
South Africa, Colombia and Others Are Fighting Drugmakers Over Access to TB and HIV Drugs
“Poorer countries are trying to become more self-reliant because they’ve realized after COVID they can’t count on anyone else,” says Professor Brook Baker ’76, policy analyst for Health GAP.
Nov 26, 2023
Brookline Banned Anyone Born This Century From Buying Tobacco in Town. The Rule Is ‘Clever,’ but Is It Legal?
Mark Gottlieb ’93, executive director of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI), is representing the town of Brookline in a challenge to its tobacco-free generation law. “What the SJC does in this case may not have any impact on whether a policy may withstand a legal challenge in other states,” he tells The Boston Globe. “But it certainly would show it’s possible, given the right legal environment, to implement a policy that is truly an end-game policy for tobacco sales.”
Nov 10, 2023
Kraschel and Co-editors Examine Impact of COVID-19 on Law and Policy in New Book
Professor Katherine (Katie) Kraschel, an expert on the intersection of reproduction, gender, bioethics and health policy, is the co-editor of a newly published book, COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact and Legacy (Cambridge University Press, 2023). The collection of essays provides a critical reflection on what changes the pandemic has already introduced, and what its legacy may be.
Nov 06, 2023
Context Matters: Affirmative Action, Public Health, and the Use of Population-Level Data
In a co-authored piece for the Petrie-Flom Center’s Bill of Health blog, Professor Wendy Parmet, Alisa Lincoln and Elaine Marshall ’22 write about the Supreme Court’s ecological fallacy in disregarding robust population-level research in their decision on affirmative action.
Sep 29, 2023
The Abortion Myths Republicans Are Recycling to Reframe a Losing Issue
“‘Late-term abortion’ isn’t a thing,” Professor Katherine Kraschel tells The Guardian. “It’s a term created by people who oppose abortion to spread disinformation and shame people who have abortion. It has no basis in medicine or science.”
Sep 10, 2023
COVID-19 Lockdowns Returning? Here’s Why Public Health Experts Say That’s Unlikely
”It’s very misleading and frankly, it frightens a lot of people to talk about lockdowns,” Professor Wendy E. Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells PolitiFact.
Sep 10, 2023
Health Activists Reveal Big Pharma’s COVID-19 Vaccine Heist in South Africa
“The most important lesson to be learned from the COVID-19 vaccine saga is the path not to take in addressing future pandemics,” says Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP. “Future responses should be driven by the dedication to people’s health, and not the protection of trade secrets and profits—a change that is still being fought out in global health.”
Aug 29, 2023
Northeastern Law Receives Top Rankings for Public Interest, Health Law and Human Rights
In recognition of its national leadership in preparing students for public interest lawyering, Northeastern University School of Law has been ranked No. 2 for public interest in the 2023 “back to school” issue of preLaw magazine. The magazine also awarded the school “A+” grades in health law and human rights.
Aug 25, 2023
Regulating Speech About a Drug’s Off-Label Uses
Professor David Simon’s new Emory Law Journal article, “Off-Label Speech,” has received a write-up in Penn State Law’s The Regulatory Review!
Aug 22, 2023
Northeastern Law’s Action Lab Files Federal Law Suit
In a novel lawsuit, Northeastern Law’s Action Lab at the Center for Health Policy and Law has filed a federal complaint in West Virginia to reinstate a prisoner’s life-saving medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD).
Aug 18, 2023
ViiV Healthcare and Doctors Without Borders Tussle Over Contract Terms for an HIV Drug
“Pharma price and purchase agreement secrecy has run amok,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP tells STAT. “We have mandatory price information on jars of peanut butter in the U.S. but a new shroud of secrecy over contracts worth tens of billions of dollar on life-saving vaccines and medicines. We need transparency, not monopoly-enhancing secrecy.”
Aug 10, 2023
Continue Successful Strategies at Mass. and Cass
In a letter to The Boston Globe, Amelia Caramadre ’21, legal fellow with the Action Lab at the Center for Health Policy and Law, calls for “a commitment to evidence-based public health approaches that center community treatment and housing.”
Aug 01, 2023
Professor Wendy Parmet Talks the Talk With Bill Newman ‘75
Professor Wendy Parmet recently joined Bill Newman ’75 on WHMP’s Talk the Talk, to discuss her new book, Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts, and Public Health: “It’s really about how constitutional law has left us vulnerable to COVID, exasperated COVID and fails to appreciate how our fates are interconnected.”
Jul 28, 2023
Doctors Who Put Lives at Risk With COVID Misinformation Rarely Punished
“We allow the [medical] profession to police themselves,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The Washington Post. “And when they fail to do that, even in the most egregious cases, what they are abetting is the erosion of trust and respect for doctors.”
Jul 14, 2023
Covid’s Remote Work Experience Is Slowly Changing Disability Law
Commenting for Bloomberg Law, Professor Wendy E. Parmet points out that recent federal court decisions on remote work as a disability accommodation may not show the full picture. ”The cases that make it to judicial decisions usually have the weakest claims. With the stronger cases, the employer and employee would probably reach some accommodation. Those would not be worth it for the employer to litigate.”
Jul 11, 2023
When Drug Busts Lead To More Overdoses We’re on the Wrong Path
“In our illicit drug policy, there are untested hypotheses that get accepted as gospel, and law enforcement and politicians often repeat those hypotheses,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells CommonWealth magazine. “Things like: If we crack down on drug dealers, that’s the way that we’re going to reduce overdose deaths.”
Jul 07, 2023
The Verdict Is In: Northeastern Program Helps Judges Better Understand the Forces That Affect People’s Health
A collaboration between Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law and the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research at Northeastern University, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Salus Populi provides guidance and training to judges on the social determinants of health and their relationship to judicial decision-making.
Jun 23, 2023
Katherine Kraschel Appointed Chair of the Board of Planned Parenthood of Southern New England
Professor Katherine (Katie) Kraschel has been appointed chair of the board of Planned Parenthood of Southern New England (PPSNE), a non-profit organization that provides high quality health care, education and advocacy to advance equity and protect the fundamental right to sexual health and reproductive freedom for all.
Jun 01, 2023
In Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts, and Public Health, Professor Wendy E. Parmet Argues Reform is Critical Before the Next Pandemic Strikes
Constitutional law has helped make Americans unhealthy, argues public health law expert Professor Wendy E. Parmet in her new book, Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts, and Public Health(Cambridge University Press, 2023).
May 25, 2023
Ads for Sports Betting Have Been More Effective Than the Original Cigarette Campaigns, Northeastern Expert Says
Professor Richard Daynard, president of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, says the nascent marketing for sports betting has been more effective than the early campaigns for cigarette smoking.
May 25, 2023
Scientists Near a Breakthrough That Could Revolutionize Human Reproduction
Listen back: Professor Katie Kraschel, an expert on the intersection of reproduction, gender, bioethics and health policy, was interviewed by NPR’s Morning Edition for a segment on in vitro gametogenesis (IVG).
May 19, 2023
Medical Countermeasures Platform will be Pitched to Countries Next Week. Inadequate Consultations, Squeamish about IP, Activists Say
“We need a working mechanism to ensure equitable access in future health emergencies,” Professor Brook BakerProfessor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells the Geneva Health Files.
May 14, 2023
A Teen Girl Is Facing Murder Charges After Two Of Her Classmates Died of Overdoses
“Behind the smokescreen of ‘holding someone accountable,’ prosecutors are increasingly manufacturing such homicide charges against friends, family members, and partners of people who die of accidental overdoses,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells VICE.“This does nothing to prevent future deaths, while sending a powerful signal that discourages people from seeking help.”
May 08, 2023
Indonesia Should Reject New IP Monopoly Protections for Medicines
“The status quo of rich countries imposing ever increasing monopoly protections to benefit the market control and profiteering of their transnational pharmaceutical giants must end,” writes Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for HealthGAP, in an opinion piece for The Jakarta Post.
May 01, 2023
Staff Spotlight: Ellen Lawton, Pioneer of Medical-Legal Partnership
“There should be a lawyer, a legal aid lawyer, in every single clinic in the country. You don’t have to call them a legal aid lawyer. You can call them a problem solver,” says Ellen Lawton ’93, a senior fellow at HealthBegins and a national expert in the integration of legal professionals into the healthcare setting to address the social determinants of health,
May 01, 2023
Expert Calls for Reforms to Address the Overdose Crisis
Mass General Brigham cites Professor Leo Beletsky’s research in a blog for News Wise.
Apr 22, 2023
Supreme Court’s Abortion Pill Call Leaves FDA in Line of Fire
Professor Wendy Parmet discusses the Supreme Court’s decision to block a Texas judge’s restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone from taking effect. “What they’re saying is, we’re not going to take this drug off the market” at least until hearing the case on the merits, Parmet said in Bloomberg Law.
Apr 21, 2023
Billerica Officer Hospitalized After Fentanyl Exposure – But Experts Say It Probably Wasn’t an Overdose
”The more rumors and myths there are out there about fentanyl exposure causing overdose in these kinds of casual encounters, the more stressed out and anxious our first responders are,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells NBC Boston. ”I think it’s really unfortunate that instead of correcting these myths, a lot of media outlets and a lot of law enforcement agencies have instead proliferated it.”
Apr 20, 2023
Don’t Curb Opioid Prescriptions Through Telemedicine. They’re Saving Lives
“Who gets access to medication should not come down to geography, identity or wealth, nor should government proposals compound existing disadvantages,” writes Professor Leo Beletsky in a co-authored op-ed for the Los Angeles Times.
Apr 18, 2023
Experts Weigh in on Alberta Considering Involuntary Treatment
“The U.S. tends to export some of the worst things that we kind of innovate and involuntary treatment does seem like one of those unfortunate exports,” Professor Beletsky tells The Globe and Mail “This is essentially incarceration rebranded.”
Apr 15, 2023
Professor Brook Baker Calls for Transparency in Pandemic Accord Talks
Professor Brook Baker comments on the negotiation process of a global pandemic preparedness World Health Organization (WHO) agreement. “The key question here is whether all members of the global society should have clear insight and input into such a consequential document”, Baker told The Lancet.
Apr 14, 2023
Abortion Pill Order Threatens FDA’s Power Over Drug Safety
Professor Wendy Parmet comments on a federal appeals court’s decision to overturn the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the drug mifepristone used in medication abortions. “This is not a decision that seems to have very much respect for either the FDA’s expertise or the scientific evidence,” says Parmet in Bloomberg Law.
Apr 10, 2023
Should Biden Ignore a Texas Judge’s Ruling on the Abortion Pill?
Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, and Professor Martha Davis, co-director of the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy, comment on a Texas federal judges’ decision to reverse the Food and Drug Administration’s decades long approval of mifepristone—a pill used in abortions and to manage miscarriages—in Northeastern Global News.
Apr 03, 2023
European Union Drug Pricing Proposal for the Pandemic Treaty Generates Pushback
Professor Brook Baker comments on the pharmaceutical industry’s arbitrary approach to provide medicines to poor and middle-income countries, because it can lead to higher prices and fails to address calls for technology transfers. “What people have been asking for is technology sharing and licensing rights to expand manufacturing capacity” said Baker in STAT News, “This (proposal) is pretty much leaving company intellectual property alone and relying on voluntary measures.”
Mar 31, 2023
Obamacare Court Decision Hits Hardest for Low-Income Americans
“It’s another example of courts not caring about the impact of their decisions on the health of Americans,” said Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, over a federal judge’s decision to strike down requirements in the Affordable Care Act, in Bloomberg Law. The decision could reduce access to life-saving preventative treatments for low-income Americans.
Mar 28, 2023
Haupts’ “AI-generated Medical Advice—GPT and Beyond” Published in JAMA
Professor Claudia Haupts’ latest article with Mason Marks, MD, JD, is “AI-generated Medical Advice—GPT and Beyond,” published in
JAMA. The article surveys the medical applications of a generative pretrained transformer (GPT) and considers whether new forms of regulation are necessary to minimize safety and legal risks to patients and clinicians.
Mar 17, 2023
Desantis Is Championing Medical Freedom. GOP State Lawmakers Like What They See.
Professor Wendy Parmet comments on the “precarious game” of limiting public health officials’ power to impose measures to protect public health, “You want to say the health department can’t close schools, but what if the next pandemic has a 50 percent fatality rate for kids, but adults are fine?” in Politico.
Mar 16, 2023
From Business as Usual to Health for the Future
Professor Brook Baker co-wrote an article, “From Business as Usual to Health for the Future: Challenging the Intellectual Property Regime to Address COVID-19 and Future Pandemics,” on the legal, political, and commercial obstacles that bar low- and middle-income countries from getting access to the pharmaceutical products needed to protect their populations during a pandemic.
Mar 14, 2023
Abortion Pill Court Docket Delay Concerns Legal Advocates
Professor Wendy Parmet mentions the lack of transparency in the judicial process over an abortion case in Texas, “To do it in a way that has the effect of being undercover and not allowing both legitimate and lawful protests outside and also making it harder for the media to get there, it threatens further loss of trust,” in Bloomberg Law.
Mar 12, 2023
What if the Next Pandemic Happened Tomorrow?
“In an ideal world, governments could counter the problem of low vaccination rates by increasing public awareness of the benefits and safety of vaccines and ensuring that vaccines are easily accessible,” said Professor Wendy Parmet in an opinion series by The New York Times on how best to prepare for future outbreaks.
Mar 10, 2023
Clinicians in Government
Professor Wendy Parmet and Professor Claudia Haupt contributed to the AMA Journal of Ethics March 2023 issue, “Clinicians in Government.” The issue makes the case that clinicians serving in federal or state government in the United States are accountable to patients, the public, and their professions in ways that transcend clinicians’ typical duties.
Mar 08, 2023
Conservative COVID Backlash Handcuffs Public Health, Pandemic
“The rulings have substantially chipped away at the legal standing of health agencies and officials to protect the public, said Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, about lawsuits fueled by conservative covid backlash mentioned in the The Washington Post.
Mar 02, 2023
Abortion Pill, Vaccine Attacks Spell Trouble for FDA Approvals
“If you begin to relax regulatory standards, it causes people to think, this is too fast, we don’t know what the long term effects are,” Professor Brook Baker said in Bloomberg Law, on growing distrust in the Food and Drug Administration processes.
Feb 14, 2023
Abortion Lawsuits Place Federal Drug Authority in the Crosshairs
“If a court enjoins the FDA’s licensing, blocks the FDA’s licensing of mifepristone, and it suddenly becomes an unlicensed medication, then the whole argument that FDA approval preempts state law disappears, because the FDA in effect has no longer approved the [drug] because the court has in a sense rescinded the approval,” said Professor Wendy Parmet in the National Journal.
Feb 13, 2023
Reclaiming Salus Populi
“If health equity is to be achieved, those with influence within the legal system must understand how their actions affect health,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet, Northeastern Law’s Director of the Center for Health Policy and Law, and Elaine Marshall, Postdoctoral Research Fellow for Salus Populi, in this Bill of Health blog.
Jan 24, 2023
Biden Toughens Abortion Rights Support, but Access Falls Short
Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law Director Wendy Parmet said, “Unless and until some courts rule that federal law preempts state bans on using medication abortions to stop pregnancies, providers are apt to remain wary of administering medication abortion,” in Bloomberg Law.
Jan 06, 2023
The Pandemic Exposed Global Gaps in Access to Medicines. Can a Contentious Approach to Close Them Gain Traction?
“We’re stuck in a rut. Voluntary licensing is only a partial solution to wider access,” Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells STAT.
Jan 06, 2023
Amid Rising Covid Fears, Wait For Patent Waiver On Meds Continues
“A partial patent waiver that frees generics companies to supply countries that cannot afford pharma-excessive ‘tiered prices’ is of utmost importance,” Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells TIMES Special.
Dec 22, 2022
Q&A: Jonathan Kahn on New Frontiers in Racial Profiling
In an interview with Undark magazine, Professor Jonathan Kahn, a leading authority on biotechnology’s implications for our ideas of identity, rights and citizenship, discusses the use of forensic DNA phenotyping.
Dec 16, 2022
Amid Criticism Over Unaffordable Insulin, Lilly Strikes a Manufacturing Deal to Supply Africa
Eli Lilly’s manufacturing agreement aimed at boosting insulin access in Africa is “largely a symbolic drop in the bucket,” Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells STAT.
Nov 21, 2022
Biden Extends Covid Public Health Emergency While States Move On
“We’re already seeing obviously tremendous strain on the healthcare system right now,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law tells News@Northeastern . “We seem to be at the cusp of what might be the tripledemic.”
Nov 13, 2022
The Global Economics Behind America’s Fentanyl Problem
“The current fentanyl situation is really a product of misguided drug policy and its enforcement,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, tells Quartz.
Nov 04, 2022
Seeking Psychedelics? Check the Data Privacy Clause
The risks of sending psilocybin client data to the Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) “outweigh the potential remote benefits,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, tells Wired.
Oct 25, 2022
Boston Officials Visit Jail as They Seek Options to House People at ’Mass. And Cass’
“Massachusetts already has one of the most highly utilized involuntary commitment systems in the entire country,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells WBUR. “Thousands of people are involuntarily committed every year and those people by and large are worse off when they come out than when they went in.”
Oct 24, 2022
Experts: George Floyd Died From Knee to Neck, Not Drug Overdose
“The physical responses that [George Floyd] was having were much more consistent with trauma than an overdose,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, tells the Associated Press.
Oct 21, 2022
Fights between U.S. States and the National Government Are Endangering Public Health
”In today’s increasingly polarized political environment, legal doctrines that once supported the states’ ability to protect the health of their residents are diminishing the capacity of both our national and local governments to do so,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet in an op-ed for Scientific American. “Unless the courts stop enabling this political weaponization of federalism, our federalism will remain uncooperative. And deadly.”
Oct 06, 2022
Will We Be Able to Count Abortions After the DobbsDecision
“Whenever you’re dealing with something that is highly stigmatized and the threat of legal enforcement hovers over, it’s very challenging,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells News@Northeastern. “The greater the perceived threat, and the greater the stigma, the harder it is to get the data.”
Sep 30, 2022
Towns Are Going After Syringe Services. The A.D.A. May Be Their Best Defense.
“The fight against zoning laws represents a larger fight against stigma directed towards people who use drugs,” writes Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, in a co-authored op-ed for Harvard Public Health.
Sep 29, 2022
Tweaks to Bill | Vaccine Mandate Update
The major questions doctrine has gone from something the Supreme Court used once every five years to a “Swiss Army knife” for courts to limit agency power, Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells Bloomberg Law.
Sep 15, 2022
Northeastern Law Announces 10 New Faculty Fellowships
In support of its public interest mission, Northeastern University School of Law is pleased to announce that its Centers of Excellence have selected 10 outstanding faculty members as 2022-2023 Faculty Fellows.
Sep 09, 2022
Biden’s Omicron Booster Campaign Faces Fatigue, Efficacy Doubts
“It would be an extraordinary failure of public policy for Congress not to reauthorize funding to extend government supported access to vaccines, boosters, tests, and therapeutics,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells Bloomberg Law.
Aug 17, 2022
Reflections on the U.S. CERD Review, 2022
For those who attended the UN’s periodic review of U.S. compliance with its obligations under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racism (CERD) last week, “Geneva was a place for imagining an America where human rights and racial justice are firmly enshrined and respected,” writes Professor Martha Davis in a blog for Human Rights at Home.
Aug 17, 2022
Mehreen Butt Joins Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law as Managing Director
Mehreen Butt has joined Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law as managing director. A public policy attorney with more than 15 years of experience working in the social justice and public policy fields and on local, state and federal campaigns, Butt is knowledgeable in healthcare, poverty, sexual and reproductive rights, and immigrant and voting reform.
Aug 15, 2022
Most Abortions Are Done at Home. Antiabortion Groups Are Taking Aim.
“So many states in the abortion arena have been playing with misinformation like this, relying on the antiabortion movement instead of medical professionals and what the science shows,” Professor Wendy Parmet, co-director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law tells The Washington Post. “Some states have required physicians say it causes breast cancer — which is also false.”
Aug 03, 2022
Northeastern Law Magazine: Summer 2022 Issue
“Shooting Pains,” “Rethinking Business As Usual,” “Active Duty” and many more stories await readers in the summer 2022 issue of Northeastern Law magazine. Read it online now!
Aug 03, 2022
Drug-induced Homicide Should Not Result in Prison Time for Those Who Call For Help
“DIH statutes force people into the unimaginable situation of deciding whether to call for help and risk prosecution for homicide or allow their friend or loved one to die of an overdose,” writes Professor Leo Beletsky in a co-authored op-ed for USA Today.
Jul 22, 2022
Georgia’s Heartbeat Abortion Ban Tests FDA Limits on Pill Access
“We are at the first stage of a tsunami of litigation,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells Bloomberg Law as Georgia’s abortion law adds to an ongoing fight over the boundaries between states and the federal government.
Jul 20, 2022
Pharma and Patient Advocates Offer Competing Visions for Achieving Vaccine Equity During Pandemics
“Big Pharma’s unwillingness to acknowledge that the existing IP regime did not just enable innovation — it also produced artificially restricted supplies, price profiteering, and grossly inequitable distribution first of vaccines and tests and now of Covid medicines as well,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells STAT.
Jul 19, 2022
New Article by Professor Jonathan Kahn: “Diversity’s Pandemic Distractions”
In “Diversity’s Pandemic Distractions,” 32 Health Matrix 149 (2022), Professor Jonathan Kahn argues that an uncritical embrace of the idea of diversity in analyzing and responding to emergent health crises has the potential to distract us from considering deeper historical and structural formations contributing to racial health disparities.
Jul 13, 2022
‘Whose God Wins?’ Florida Lawsuit Exposes Supreme Court’s Religious Hypocrisy, Northeastern Professors Say
“Since Roberts became chief justice, almost all of the decisions are issued on behalf of Catholics or Evangelicals,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells News@Northeastern.
Jul 06, 2022
Restrictions on Contraception Could Set Women Back Generations
“I don’t think whatever gains women have made in the workplace and in political representation are guaranteed,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The New Yorker. ”If the Court moved us back to the nineteen-fifties in terms of access to contraception and abortion, well then, I think we would have some of the same social and economic consequences we had then.”
Jul 04, 2022
‘A Slippery Slope’: Pfizer Sells a Contraceptive and Donated To Political Groups That Could Come After the Company
”This decision has opened up uncertainty and could well mean that companies have shot themselves in the foot,“ Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells STAT.
Jun 26, 2022
Chasm Opens Between States Over Abortion Pills and Out-of-State Care
“We haven’t seen this kind of battle about … the reach of the jurisdiction of one state over another in a very long time,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The Washington Post . “Nothing of this magnitude have we seen since the Civil War.”
Jun 25, 2022
Garland Signals Brewing Battle With GOP-Led States Over Access to Abortion Pills
Professor Wendy Parmet tells NBC News it’s unclear whether the FDA can preempt a state’s prohibition on mifepristone: “We don’t have a Supreme Court decision on [this] point, and even if we did, we have a Supreme Court willing to overturn decisions.”
Jun 24, 2022
The Spectacular Failure of the WTO To Fight COVID
“The whole world is better off if we all have green technology,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells In These Times. “If rich countries get to control green technology to prioritize their use in high-income countries, that’s good for their profits, but it’s not good for the world.”
Jun 14, 2022
Time to Walk Away from the WTO Proposed Text
”The hegemony of Big Pharma itself must be challenged,” writes Professor Brook Baker in his latest Health GAP blog. ”How much pandemic profiteering can we collectively endure?”
Jun 13, 2022
As Biden Administration Fights Opioid Overdoses, Harm Reduction Groups Face Opposition
“These [harm reduction] programs are still running on a shoestring,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, tells USA Today “That is not how public health is supposed to be done.”
May 30, 2022
More Collar Counties Charge Dealers With Drug-induced Homicide for Drug Overdose Deaths
“If you are responding to overdoses with drug induced homicide prosecutions, you’re part of the problem, you’re not part of the solution,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, tells ABC 7 Chicago.
May 26, 2022
Abortion Pill Lawsuit Offers Guide to Challenging State Limits
“A high court decision handing the authority to regulate abortion back to the states would only exacerbate existing interstate divisions,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells Bloomberg Law. “You’re creating a potential interstate powder keg.”
May 25, 2022
‘It’s Not Working Fast Enough.’ Heartbreak, Drugs, and Crime Persist at Mass. And Cass, Leaving Neighbors Asking, ‘What’s Next?’
Professor Leo Beletsky tells The Boston Globe that the removal of tents and the recent shuttering of an engagement center were “wrong-headed initiatives that leaned too heavily on law enforcement to simply sweep the problems of Mass. and Cass under the proverbial rug.”
May 24, 2022
Salus Populi Judicial Education Program Expands with Additional Funding
The Center for Health Policy and Law (CHPL), in collaboration with the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research, has received two additional two years of funding (2022-2024) to support and expand upon Salus Populi, the nation’s first education program for judges that provides critical information about the social determinants of health.
May 23, 2022
Vague ‘Medical Emergency’ Exceptions in Abortion Laws Leave Pregnant People in Danger, Doctors Say
Professor Wendy Parmet tells STAT News that the political environment today is more hostile toward abortion than in earlier decades: “Even pre-Roe, law enforcement was unlikely to intervene if a hospital committee said an abortion was performed for a patient’s health.”
May 23, 2022
‘Stay in the Race.’ The Honorable Victoria Roberts ’76 Inspires Northeastern Law Graduates To Pursue Justice
The Honorable Victoria Roberts ’76 delivered a rousing commencement speech at Friday’s ceremony and urged the class of 2022 not to let “the challenges of practicing law ever defeat you.”
May 18, 2022
The Antiscience Supreme Court is Hurting the Health of Americans
“Today’s conservative jurists have adopted the anti-expertise, populist stance of the larger conservative movement and are far less inclined than conservative judges in the past to prioritize health or value expertise,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet in an op-ed for Scientific American.
May 16, 2022
Abortion Foes Push to Narrow ‘Life of Mother’ Exceptions
“If there is no legalized way of abortion in these cases, many women are going to face very significant health problems and be desperate,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Washington Post. “And doctors are going to be put in untenable and unethical situations.”
May 16, 2022
As Poor Nations Seek Covid Pills, Officials Fear Repeat of AIDS Crisis
“Both Merck and Pfizer have reserved for themselves all the high-income countries and virtually all of the upper-middle-income countries and even some lower-middle-income countries,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, policy analyst for Health GAP, tells The New York Times. Professor Baker recently submitted a legal brief in support of the Dominican Republic’s petition to allow the distribution of the generic version of Paxlovid.
May 12, 2022
Who Should Decide the Nation’s Pandemic Response?
“The questions raised by the mask mandate cases, as with so many other Covid-19 cases, is not which policy is correct. It’s who should answer that question? Judges or health officials?,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet in an opinion piece for Bloomberg Law.
May 12, 2022
‘It’s a Tsunami’: Legal Challenges Threatening Public Health Policy
“Judicial review is an important deterrent against overreach and abuse,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells Politico.
May 09, 2022
Baker Contributes to Complaint Citing International Human Rights Law Violations in COVID Vaccine and Medicines Distribution
Professor Brook Baker ’76 is among the members of an international coalition of human rights groups, public health experts and civil society organizations that submitted inputs and submitted a petition to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) arguing that Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US) are in violation of international human rights law by failing to intervene on inequitable and racially discriminatory rollout of COVID vaccines and other healthcare technologies.
May 06, 2022
Post-Roe, Could States Outlaw Abortion Pills?
Abortion medications are available by mail and offer an FDA-approved option for those hoping to terminate an early pregnancy. If Roe is overturned, could the pills be criminalized? Professor Wendy Parmet weighs in.
May 04, 2022
Contraception Could Come Under Fire Next if Roe v Wade is Overturned
“There are a lot of decisions that follow from the idea of a constitutional right to privacy,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Guardian. “Once you throw down the best-known decision in that category of cases, every single other case is now up for grabs.”
May 03, 2022
Paxlovid’s Slow, Targeted Rollout Leaves Vulnerable Populations at Risk
Professor Brook Baker ’76 welcomes the Biden administration’s plans to expand access to Paxlovid, the first medication developed to treat COVID-19. However, “that still leaves a lot of people uncovered who aren’t near those kinds of facilities,” he says.
Apr 29, 2022
Commencement 2022
Members of the class of 2022 will receive their degrees during the School of Law’s commencement ceremony in Matthews Arena on Friday, May 20. For those who are unable to attend #NUSL2022, the School of Law is pleased to offer a live video stream of the ceremony.
Apr 29, 2022
Pfizer Allegedly Pressured UNICEF to Keep Secret, Pricing for Anti-Viral Treatment Paxlovid. UNICEF Yielded.
Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells Geneva Health Filesthat a negative precedent is being set with respect to transparency for public resources spent in procuring COVID-19 therapeutics: “Not only has the world allowed biopharmaceutical companies to maintain monopoly control over the supply, price, and distribution of COVID-19 countermeasures, it has also consistently allowed them to achieve their profiteering under a veil of secrecy.”
Apr 20, 2022
Drug-Induced Panic
“Overdose mortalities and related harms require a public health response, not more criminalization and incarceration,” writes Professor Leo Beletsky in a co-authored piece for Inquest.
Apr 20, 2022
Covid Travel Mask Ruling Threatens to Tie CDC’s Hands on Future Pandemics
“This decision ties the CDC’s hands at a time when we still do not know what the next few months will bring in terms of the pandemic and new strains,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Financial Times. “It is really important the administration pushes back.”
Apr 20, 2022
DOJ to Appeal Travel Mask Mandate Ruling After CDC Says Masks Still Needed on Public Transportation
Professor Wendy Parmet comments for Politico on the travel mask ruling: “It’s about who makes our public health policy. The judiciary – a 35-year-old unelected judge – or the CDC and the Department of Health and Human Services?”
Apr 11, 2022
While We Line Up for a Fourth Shot, the World’s Poor Haven’t Gotten Their First
“People in the U.S. have no greater right to health than people elsewhere in the world,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells the Los Angeles Times. “We’re all human. Health is a positive good for everyone. Yet we’re living under a monopoly-based system where giant pharmaceutical corporations make billions in profits at the expense of poor people in poor countries who are denied access to life-saving medicines.”
Apr 06, 2022
How President Biden Can Expand Global COVID-19 Test-To-Treat
In a piece for Health Affairs, Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, and his co-authors recommend a number of concrete steps for policy makers to take “to ameliorate testing and treatment disparities in the short term and build toward a more equitable global response in the medium to long term.”
Mar 30, 2022
Rich Countries are Getting the New COVID Vaccine First
“The bottom line is that there are still a lot of unvaccinated people in poor countries and once again, they are at the back of the line,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells Salon.
Mar 28, 2022
Scientists Object to Inclusion in Globe’s Philip Morris Ad
“The Globe certainly should know what’s going on here, though Philip Morris is paying them good money to keep their gaze averted,” says Professor Richard Daynard, president of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute.
Mar 18, 2022
HIV Outbreak Among Drug Users Accelerates in Boston
Diffusing the concentration of homeless can make “it seem like things are better, but it further marginalizes and makes it harder for them to access services,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, tells The Boston Globe. “Such a move can also lead to upticks in overdoses and HIV infections.”
Mar 17, 2022
New “Compromise” on an IP Waiver for Covid Vaccines Is Worse Than No Deal, Activists Say
“Even if vaccines were the only consideration, overriding patents alone is not enough,” Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells In These Times magazine.
Mar 07, 2022
Covid-19 Misinformation Tests Doctors’ Free Speech Rights
“The First Amendment assumes an equality between speakers that really doesn’t reflect the reality that exists between doctors and patients concerning medical matters, and doesn’t protect the interests of laypeople in getting sound information,” Professor Claudia Haupt tells Bloomberg News.
Mar 07, 2022
Covid Pill Prescriber Rules Limit Reach of ‘Test to Treat’ Plan
“There are people who simply do not have connection to health services, for many reasons, mainly poverty related, but also some historic mistreatment and distrust,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP tells Bloomberg Law. “Extra work has to be done to overcome that history of inferior service and inferior service access.”
Mar 04, 2022
COVID Revealed the Fragility of American Public Health
What happens when a deadly virus hits a vulnerable society? Professor Wendy Parmet writes about the fragility of American public health in the March issue of Scientific American.
Mar 04, 2022
Ukraine-Russia War Threatens to Stymie COVID Vaccination Efforts
“There are not yet good systems for providing vaccines in humanitarian and conflict situations,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells Bloomberg Law. “The influx of large populations living in crowded conditions will result in increased transmission but little protection.”
Feb 25, 2022
Transgender Kids Care Law Tests Arkansas Doctors’ Speech Rights
Professor Claudia Haupt talked to Bloomberg Law about professional knowledge and state regulation of medical practice: “The real problem arises when the state tries to regulate something as a practice of medicine in a way that contradicts medical insights.”
Feb 25, 2022
The Global COVID-19 Treatment Divide
“We are now seeing a resurgent wave of therapeutics nationalism just as pernicious as vaccine nationalism,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP tells The Lancet.
Feb 18, 2022
Pfizer Criticized Over Patent Strategy for COVID-19 Pill, Despite a Deal To Broaden Access in Poor Countries
“Pfizer has attempted to paint a positive picture of its MPP license despite its many restrictions,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells STAT. “It doesn’t advertise that it has reserved 46% of the world’s population – people from high- and upper-middle-income countries – for its exclusive sales.”
Feb 18, 2022
Can States Preserve Access to Abortion if Roe v. Wade is Overturned?
More state legislatures are mobilizing in anticipation of the Supreme Court’s decision on an abortion ban in Mississippi, which directly threatens the rights spelled out in Roe v. Wade. Professors Martha Davis and Jeremy Paul weigh in on the latest effort in Vermont.
Feb 07, 2022
Prosecutors Are Going After Michael K. Williams’ Alleged Dealer Using An Increasingly Common — And Controversial — Charge
“Williams’ death is being commemorated by ratcheting up and feeding the war on drugs and deploying these failed approaches,” Professor Leo Beletsky, director of Northeastern Law’s Health In Justice Action Lab tells the Gothamist. “And it’s a travesty. It’s a desecration of his life and career.”
Jan 27, 2022
Biden’s Workplace Vaccine Rules Hit Republican Judge Blockade
“We’re putting our heads in the sand if we ignore the way partisanship has come to impact how judges see issues,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells Bloomberg Law.
Jan 21, 2022
The US Supreme Court’s Rulings on Large Business and Health Care Worker Vaccine Mandates
Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, has teamed up with Professor Lawrence Gostin, faculty director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown, and Professor Sara Rosenbaum of GWLaw to co-author a JAMA Viewpoint piece on the ramifications of the US Supreme Court’s Ruling on Vaccine Mandates.
Jan 11, 2022
Parolees With Opioid Addiction Need Choices, Not a Naltrexone-Only Policy
Amelia Caramadre ’21, a legal fellow with Northeastern Law’s Health in Justice in Action Lab, talks to Filter magazine about the work the lab is doing “to end the practice of preferentially prescribing parolees any one drug over another, and mandating or denying certain addiction medications.”
Jan 07, 2022
The Government’s Ability to Control the Pandemic is at Stake
The Supreme Court hears oral arguments today about two of the Biden administration’s emergency Covid-19 regulations. At stake “is not only the future of the pandemic but also the federal government’s capacity to respond to continuing and future health threats,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, in a guest essay for The New York Times.
Jan 03, 2022
Gov. Charlie Baker Won’t Mandate Masks Statewide — But Can He? Here’s What Legal Experts Say
“The mask mandate is the low-hanging fruit of COVID interventions,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells MassLive.
Dec 15, 2021
With Overdose Deaths Surging, Advocates on the Ground Push for Over-the-Counter Naloxone
Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, calls for over-the-counter naloxone: “We have this lifesaving tool available throughout the whole time of this crisis, and the federal government has just been sitting on its hands.”
Dec 06, 2021
Pfizer and Merck Covid-19 Pills Are Coming Soon in the U.S., But Other Countries Will Have to Wait
Professor Brook Baker comments for The Wall Street Journalon the rollout of Pfizer’s and Merck’s promising Covid-19 treatment pills: “There’s lots of logistics and training and community health literacy that has to happen in order for this to work well.”
Dec 03, 2021
Time for Safehouse to Ask Forgiveness, Not Permission, on Philly Supervised Injection Site, Experts Say
“A lot of innovation in harm reduction has really proceeded through civil disobedience in the United States,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Health in Justice Action Lab, tells WHYY News. “It has not proceeded through formal legal channels.”
Dec 03, 2021
Half of Us Could Lose Abortion Access if Supreme Court Overturns Roe v. Wade
With a series of so-called “trigger laws” on the books in 21 states and elected officials hostile to abortion in charge of five more, half the country stands to lose access to abortion if the high court overturns Roe v. Wade. And, during oral arguments in a case over a Mississippi law that flies in the face of Roe, it appeared some justices were willing to do just that, say Professors Libby Adler and Martha Davis.
Dec 02, 2021
COVID-19 Travel Bans Little More Than ‘Public Health Theater,’ Professor Says
New travel bans meant to delay the spread of the omicron COVID-19 variant won’t help quell the virus, but may serve to stigmatize southern African nations where the mutation was first reported, Professor Wendy Parmet tells news@Northeastern.
Nov 29, 2021
US Saw 100,000 Drug Overdose Deaths in One Year Amid Pandemic, CDC Says
The severe shortage of Pfizer’s lifesaving overdose reversal drug naloxone “is a symptom of broader dysfunction in the US pharmaceutical industry, where public health concerns are secondary to financial concerns,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Health in Justice Action Lab, tells The Guardian.
Nov 18, 2021
A Quirky Ping-Pong Ball Lottery Just Dealt a Blow to Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate
“The mandate is very defensible, and I think it should be seen as within OSHA’s purview,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells TIME.
Nov 17, 2021
Pfizer Strikes a Deal With the Medicines Patent Pool for Generic Versions of Its COVID-19 Pill in Poor Countries
“The license between Pfizer and the Medicines Patent Pool is disappointingly limited to only 95 countries with just 53% of the world’s population, or 4.1 billion people,” Professor Brook Baker tell STAT.
Nov 02, 2021
Boston Notifies Mass. and Cass Residents Tents Will Be Removed Monday Morning
“This very situation arose a couple of years ago when #MassAndCass was cleared out under Operation Clean Sweep,” Professor Leo Beletsky, faculty director of Heath in Justice Action Lab, tells NBC10 Boston “And we’re back where we started so clearly this kind of approach doesn’t work.”
Nov 01, 2021
A Dangerous Legal Battle Over Vaccine Mandates Will Continue
“A decision by the Supreme Court that rejects its own precedent on vaccine mandates and ignores the distinctions between medical exemptions and religious exemptions will reverberate far beyond the Covid-19 pandemic,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, in an op-ed for The New York Times. “Whether or not the court intended to unsettle the constitutionality of vaccine mandates, it has done so.“
Oct 20, 2021
Will Giving COVID Booster Shots Make It Harder to Vaccinate the Rest of the World?
“To pretend that a dose in an American arm doesn’t mean one less dose in an African arm doesn’t make sense,” Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells Scientific American.
Oct 20, 2021
Price for Drug that Reverses Opioid Overdoses Soars Amid Record Deaths
“It’s not enough to criticize the pharmaceutical industry,” Professor Leo Beletksy, faculty director of Health In Justice Action Lab, tells The Guardian. “We should be using the regulatory tools that we have to compel them to act in a different way.”
Oct 19, 2021
Human Behavior, Legal Doctrine and Policy Design
Listen back: On the Voices in Vulnerability podcast, Professor Richard Daynard, president of Northeastern Law’s Public Health Advocacy Institute, talks about taking on the tobacco industry, the importance of emotion to humanity and dispelling the notion of the rational actor.
Oct 19, 2021
Politics Is Derailing a Crucial Debate Over the Immunity You Get From Recovering From COVID-19
“Laws can’t be perfect, and they certainly can’t be perfect early in a pandemic,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells STAT News . “You can’t expect the state policy to change with every preprint. That would just be madness.” @NUSLHealth @phlawwatch https://www.statnews.com/2021/10/19/politics-is-derailing-a-crucial-debate-over-the-immunity-you-get-from-recovering-from-covid-19
Oct 19, 2021
Will New Covid Treatments Be as Elusive for Poor Countries as Vaccines?
“Even from a somewhat self-interested perspective, it’s shortsighted and counterproductive not to ensure access to these medicines,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells The New York Times .
Oct 10, 2021
Professor Jonathan Kahn Receives National Library of Medicine Grant
Professor Jonathan Kahn, a leading authority on biotechnology’s implications for our ideas of identity, rights and citizenship has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the National Library of Medicine for his book project, “The Uses of Diversity: Managing Race and Representation in Law, Politics, and the Biosciences.”
Sep 28, 2021
Some Advocates and Experts Push Back Against Sheriff’s Mass. & Cass Proposal
“For people who are already incarcerated, of course we should be providing them with the highest level of care possible,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells The BostonGlobe. “But paying taxpayer funds to repurpose jail-like [facilities] into ‘treatment’ is not supported by science or civil rights concerns.”
Sep 22, 2021
With CLEAR Objectives, Northeastern Law Announces New Center for Law, Equity and Race
Today, Northeastern University School of Law launches a new Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR), which will bring together the school’s pioneering programs and faculty— long engaged in theoretical and translational research, innovative pedagogy and collaborations with external communities — to address today’s challenges and provide tomorrow’s solutions for the nation’s most complex social challenges.
Sep 17, 2021
Will Joe Biden’s Vaccination Requirements Hold Up in Court?
“A presidential order for states to require vaccinations on their own would likely have been found unconstitutional,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tellsPolitiFact.
Sep 17, 2021
Are Biden’s COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates Legal?
The presidential COVID-19 vaccination directives would have been a “slam dunk” if they were issued a year ago, says Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law. But the way the Supreme Court and other courts have ruled against federal mandates lately, “I’m not quite so sure,” she adds.
Sep 09, 2021
What Would It Take To Vaccinate the World Against COVID-19?
“The continual emergence of variants of the virus elevates the threat that the COVID-19 pandemic will continue to devastate the globe, and raises the sense of urgency to shrink the sizes of unvaccinated communities around the world,” says Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for Health GAP.
Sep 01, 2021
We’ve Entered a New Era in the Legal Battles of COVID-19
“In a well-functioning polity, we would not need litigation to ensure that children can remain healthy at school,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, in an op-ed for The Atlantic.
Aug 31, 2021
Northeastern Law Ranked No. 1 for Public Interest
In recognition of its national leadership in preparing students for public interest lawyering, Northeastern University School of Law has been ranked No. 1 for public interest in the 2021 “back to school” issue of preLawmagazine.
Aug 20, 2021
Anti-Vaxxers Try a New Ploy: Selling Religious Vaccine Exemptions Online
“We really do not want to be at a situation where our employers are scrutinizing and testing our religious sincerity,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The American Independent. “We do not have an established religion and orthodoxy in this country. And yet, that is ripe for abuse and it allows for exploitation of the religious exemption.”
Aug 16, 2021
Rich Nations Dip Into COVAX Supply While Poor Wait for Shots
“Rich countries are trying to garner geopolitical benefits from bilateral dose-sharing,” says Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP.
Aug 13, 2021
Could Joe Biden Challenge Florida, Texas on Mask Policies? Probably Not.
“The Supreme Court is unlikely to say that the federal government can prevent the states from limiting the authority of their localities,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells PolitiFact.
Aug 09, 2021
House Democrats Push For Vaccine-Or-Test Mandate For Members And Staff
Professor Wendy Parmet tells Forbes the law around vaccine mandates for Congress is “different” than for other employers, but that the legal case for vaccine mandates in general is “pretty strong” if some exemptions are provided.
Aug 09, 2021
Video of Officer’s Collapse After Handling Powder Draws Skepticism
“This kind of misinformation is definitely harmful,” Professor @LeoBeletsky, faculty director of Health in Justice Action Lab, tells The New York Times. “If people think that they might die of an overdose from providing emergency assistance — that might cost lives.”
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Aug 04, 2021
Is It legal to Mandate Covid Vaccines? In Many Circumstances, Yes
CNN Politics asks: “Is it legal to mandate Covid vaccines?” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, offers expert insights.
Jul 30, 2021
Who Owns the Rights to COVID Vaccines?
Watch video: Professor Brook Baker appeared on Al Jazeera’s “Inside Story” to make the case for a vaccine patent waiver to boost production of the COVID vaccination.
Jul 23, 2021
Public Health Officials Have Tools To Beat Back COVID Again. Does Anyone Want To Use Them?
“Traditionally the courts and legislatures have been supportive of emergency public health actions,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells STAT. “But not so much anymore.”
Jul 21, 2021
Northeastern Law Magazine: Summer 2021 Issue
Check out the latest issue of Northeastern Law magazine. Features stories include: ‘Fertile Ground,’ ‘Inching Toward Immunity’ and ‘Talking ‘Bout Evolution.’ Read it online today!
Jul 20, 2021
State Efforts to Restrict Public Health Powers
Listen back: On The Week in Health Law podcast, Professor Wendy Parmet discusses recent state laws reducing public health emergency powers.
Jul 02, 2021
Covid-19 Vaccines and Intellectual Property
Listen back: On a webinar hosted by The Federalist Society, Professor Brook Baker discusses the pros and cons of the WTO COVID-19 TRIPS waiver proposal.
Jun 22, 2021
The Other Public Health Crisis: How The DOJ Can Flatten the Overdose Curve
“If this administration is serious about ending the overdose crisis, it will need to redeploy the tools of the DOJ in true service to public health. Change can’t come soon enough,” write Professor Leo Beletsky and his colleagues at Health in Justice Action Lab, in a co-authored op-ed for The Appeal.
Jun 08, 2021
The Impracticality of Relying on Compulsory Licenses to Expand Production Capacity for COVID-19 Vaccines
“The EU and other waiver-blocking countries must face the facts that IP barriers must be removed if we are to survive this viral plague,” writes Professor Brook Baker ‘76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP (Global Access Project), in his latest post for Infojustice.
Jun 02, 2021
A Global Search for Vaccines Fuels a Different Kind of Tourism
“We should be donating our excess vaccine doses to COVAX now to immediately vaccinate all health care workers and high-risk individuals across the world,” says Dr. Michael Sinha, visiting scholar at Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law.
Jun 01, 2021
Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines in Schools a Political Gamble for States
“There is some uncertainty and I think ambiguity in the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act provisions that provide for emergency-use authorization about whether vaccines or medications that are authorized under that provision can be required,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law tells The National Law Journal. “We don’t have an authoritative pronouncement by a court.”
May 25, 2021
Have Covid-19 Deaths Been Undercounted? New Reports Say ‘Yes’ and Here’s Why It Matters.
“COVID-19 has had a much bigger footprint than we have estimated so far,” says Professor Brook Baker ‘76.
May 25, 2021
Texas Passes Restrictive Abortion Measures, Effective In September
Tune in to Texas Public Radio’s The Source today at 1PM ET to hear Professor Aziza Ahmed weigh in on Texas’ new abortion restrictions.
May 20, 2021
The Supreme Court Will Hear an Abortion Case. What Comes Next?
By agreeing to hear an abortion case out of Mississippi that the state’s lower courts ruled was plainly unconstitutional under the landmark Roe v. Wade, the justices indicated that the nation’s highest court may seek to change the abortion standard, say Professors Aziza Ahmed and Dan Urman.
May 17, 2021
‘The CDC Guidance Is Not Law’: Legal Expert Weighs in on Future of Mask Mandates in Private Spaces
“It’s going to be somewhat harder for private businesses, especially in states that don’t still have mask mandates, to enforce their mandates as a practical matter,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells Boston 25 News.
May 14, 2021
Securing the TRIPS Waiver the World Needs: What Comes Next
“Preemptive voluntary tech transfer by companies and capacity investments by governments could and should begin now, even as the waiver text is being negotiated,” writes Professor Brook Baker ’76 in his latest blog for Health GAP.
May 07, 2021
There’s Something Missing From Biden’s Move to Free the Covid Vaccines
“There should be regional vaccine hubs in all regions of the world so that people aren’t dependent on just one place of a vaccine manufacturer or one supplier of key ingredients and components,” Professor Brook Baker tells The New Republic.
May 06, 2021
Calls for Drug Companies to Share Vaccine Formulas Grow as Global COVID Crisis Worsens
“We’ve been sold a bill of goods that somehow if we prioritize ourselves, we’ll be safe,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP (Global Access Project), tells CBS News. “It’s in fact not true. We have to prioritize everyone, everywhere and not let intellectual property stand in the way of achieving that.”
May 05, 2021
Third-Way Proposals from Big Pharma and the WTO are the Same-Old Way – Commercial Control of Supply, Price, and Distribution
In a policy brief for The People’s Vaccine, Professor Brook Baker outlines the arguments for government-led, open technology transfer and equitable access to Covid-19 vaccine production and distribution.
Apr 20, 2021
Here’s Why It’s Important to Call the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Review Phase a ‘Pause’
“The stakes are high right now,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells Northeastern News. “We want a vaccine that is safe and we want to save lives, but we don’t want to give a vaccine to subpopulations that may be particularly vulnerable to it if we have other choices for them.”
Apr 20, 2021
A Year Into Covid, States Debate Public Health Shutdown Powers
Public health has, to some extent, become “yet another of America’s endless political battlegrounds,” Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells Undark. “We fight, politically, everything from Dr. Seuss to Covid. What has happened is that in many states, as a result of this, legislatures are rushing to consider and enact measures to reduce the governor’s authority.”
Apr 19, 2021
Northeastern Law Leaps to No. 5 for Health Care Law in 2022 U.S. News Ranking
Northeastern University School of Law is ranked No. 5 for health care law in U.S. News & World Report’s 2022 rankings, released today. The law school was previously ranked No. 11 in the 2021 rankings.
Apr 12, 2021
Stalled At First Jab: Vaccine Shortages Hit Poor Countries
“Celebrating doses sufficient for only 19 million people, or 0.25% of global population, is tone deaf,” says Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for HealthGAP (Global Access Project).
Apr 12, 2021
Conservative Courts Say They Can’t Set Health Policy — and Then They Do It Anyway
“For many elected officials, and even many judges, partisanship, rather than salus populi, seems to be the supreme law,” writes Professor Wendy Parmet in an op-ed for The Washington Post.
Jan 30, 2021
Salus Populi Project Launches New Website
he Center for Health Policy and Law’s Robert Wood Johnson Foundation-funded project, Salus Populi: Educating the Judiciary About the Social Determinants of Health, launched a website, www.saluspopulidoh.com, which is a resource for judges and attorneys who are interested in learning more about how judges can impact health.
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- December 28, 2020: Margo Lindauer, People, “Domestic Abuse Survivor Works to Help Women and Kids as Cases Skyrocket During Pandemic.”
- December 23, 2020: Emily Spieler, Legal Talk Network, “The Year that Was in Workers Comp.”
- December 18, 2021: Leo Beletsky, Health Affairs, “Purdue’s Demise Could Be a New Beginning for the Pharmaceutical Industry”
- December 18, 2021: Leo Beletsky, The Washington Post, “Power Up: DOJ Settled for Billions to Allay the Opioid Crisis. The Challenge Now: Getting the Money.”
- December 15, 2020: Aziza Ahmed and Wendy Parmet, Northeastern News, “Here’s Why We Need a PSA for the COVID-19 Vaccine.”
- December 6, 2020: Leo Beletsky, The Philadelphia Inquirer, “Philadelphia May Be on the Way to a Record for Fatal Drug Overdoses in 2020, another COVID-19 Consequence”
- December 3, 2020: Leo Beletsky, Daily Beast, “The Terrifying Triple-Digit Spike in Pandemic Overdoses.”
- December 1, 2020: Margo Lindauer, The Takeaway, “Domestic Violence Victims in the U.S. Are Lacking Resources During Pandemic.”
- November 23, 2020: Leo Beletsky, Boston.com,“With Limited Boston Homeless Shelter Beds This Winter, Could Taking Private Property Be a Solution?.”
- November 22, 2020: Leo Beletsky, Boston 25 News, “Northeastern Professor Suggests Commandeering Private Property for Shelter Use.”
- November 20, 2020: Leo Beletsky, The Verge, “Drug Decriminalization in Oregon Could be a Step Toward Better Public Health.”
- November 18, 2020: Margo Lindauer, GHB, “GBH News Legal Analyst on NEW SJC Pick.”
- November 13, 2020: Leo Beletsky, WBUR, “Study Details Lives and Money Saved by Supervised Drug Consumption.”
- November 13, 2020: Emily Spieler, Bloomberg Law, “Biden’s Labor Landing Team is Built to Work Around a GOP Senate.”
- November 7, 2020: Leo Beletsky, ARS Technica, “Voters Rejecting the War on Drugs Is a Win for Public Health.”
- November 1, 2020: Leo Beletsky, International Journal of Drug Policy, “Intersectional Structural Vulnerability to Abusive Policing Among People Who Inject Drugs: A Mixed Methods Assessment in California’s Central Valley.”
- October 28, 2020: Michael Dukakis, Northeastern News, “The Election Is Almost Here. Stay Informed with These Events.”
- October 28, 2020: Leo Beletsky, ABC News, “Almost Half of South Dakota’s Prison Population Tests Positive for COVID-19.”
- October 13, 2020: Aziza Ahmed, SCOTUS Blog, “Symposium: Ginsburg’s Abortion Jurisprudence Prioritized Women’s Health.”
- October 10, 2020: Brook Baker, Health Policy Watch, “Moderna Makes Milestone Pledge To “Not Enforce Our Patents” On COVID-19 Vaccine Technologies During Pandemic & Issue Open Licenses Afterward.”
- October 9, 2020: Claudia Haupt, Harvard Law Review, “Platforms as Trustees: Information Fiduciaries and the Value of Analogy: Responding to David E. Pozen & Lina M. Khan, A Skeptical View of Information Fiduciaries.”
- October 8, 2020: Brook Baker, HealthGap, “Moderna Responds to Activist Pressure, But In the Race for Our Lives, We Need More Than Baby Steps.”
- October 6, 2020: Wendy Parmet, Northeastern News, “Does the Public Have a Right to Know the State of the President’s COVID-19 Diagnosis?”
- October 6, 2020: Claudia Haupt, Bill of Health, “When Health Advice Is Hard to Come by, BIPOC Suffer the Consequences.”
- October 1, 2020: Brook Baker, Geneva Health Files,“COVID-19 Diagnostics: The Full Picture.”
- October 1, 2020: Aziza Ahmed & Leo Beletsky, Northeastern News, “There’s More to October Than Halloween. Check Out This Month’s Events.”
- September 30, 2020: Patricia Illingworth, Fifty Plus Advocate, “A Socially Conscious Scholar: Patricia Illingworth.”
- September 30, 2020: Michael Sinha, HealthDay, “Was FDA Lax in Approving Opioids Too Easily?”
- September 28, 2020: Carmen Sceppa, Study International News, “Sharpen Your Health Science Expertise at Northeastern University.”
- September 26, 2020: Wendy Parmet, POLITICO, “How Amy Coney Barrett Might Rule.”
- September 25, 2020: Wendy Parmet, POLITICO, “How Barrett Could Affect the Covid-19 Battle.”
- September 23, 2020: Leo Beletsky, Philadelphia Inquirer, “Myths About Fentanyl Spread More Prolifically Online Than Articles Correcting Them, Study Finds.”
- September 22, 2020: Wendy Parmet, Bloomberg Law, “Lagoa’s Resume Recalls Conservative Regret Over O’Connor, Souter.”
- September 19, 2020: Aziza Ahmed, The Lancet, “Human Rights Parables For A Post-Pandemic World”
- September 15, 2020: Brook Baker, Quartz,“Bill Gates Says Rich Countries Need To Ensure Covid-19 Vaccines Can Be Made Globally”
- September 11, 2020: Claudia Haupt, AZCentral,“Yes, Vicki, Politicians Can Lie In Campaign Ads”
- September 10, 2020: Leo Beletsky, Forbes,“Joe Biden’s “Mandatory Rehab” For Drug Users Are Rebranded Jails That Don’t Work And Cause Overdoses”
- September 10, 2020: Wendy Parmet, AJPH Podcast,“Katrina, Flint, COVID-19 The Root Changes Public Health Needs”
- September 10, 2020: Wendy Parmet, WGBH News,“As Campuses Reopen, Colleges Struggle To Balance Privacy and Public Safety”
- September 6, 2020: Wendy Parmet, The Washington Post,“Trust in Covid-19 Vaccines Could Turn on a Knife Edge”
- September 1, 2020: Leo Beletsky, The Appeal,“Oregon Could Become the First State to Decriminalize Drugs in November”
- August 24, 2020: Brook Baker, Nature,“The Unequal Scramble for Coronavirus Vaccines — By the Numbers”
- August 18, 2020: Wendy Parmet, MedPage Today,“Legal Experts Blast U.S. Response to COVID-19”
- August 2, 2020: Wendy Parmet, The Pantagraph,“Pritzker says Illinois counties must act to stop COVID’s spread. How much power do they have?”
- August 1, 2020: Aziza Ahmed, Harvard Law & Policy Review,“Scientific and Medical Expertise in the Prosecution of Pregnant Women”
- July 30, 2020: Alisa Lincoln and Carmen Sceppa, Northeastern News,“How Has COVID-19 Affected Mental Health and Well-Being?”
- July 28, 2020: Gary Young, Modern Healthcare,“Hospitals Can Transfer Patients’ Medical Debt to RIP Medical Debt, Regulators Say”
- July 27, 2020: Brook Baker, Times of India,“‘Suspend patents on Covid-19 drugs in India to Ensure Accessibility & Affordability’”
- July 23, 2020: Jennifer Huer, WBUR,“Parking Bans, Resident-Only Rules, And Social Distancing Complicate Beach Access”
- July 22, 2020: Wendy Parmet, FOX 5 NY,“Legal Issues Around Coronavirus Vaccine Mandates”
- July 18, 2020: Wendy Parmet, FiveThirtyEight,“When Does A Pandemic Start To Erode Civil Liberties?”
- July 17, 2020: Aziza Ahmed, Just Security,“Pandemic Politics: Race, Sex, and the Supreme Court”
- July 14, 2020: Wendy Parmet, New York Times Magazine,“Why We’re Losing the Battle With Covid-19”
- July 10, 2020:Leo Beletsky, Forbes, “We Desperately Need Safe Zones For Drug Users In This Pandemic”
- July 9, 2020: Brook Baker, HealthGAP,“Biden’s Commitment to Global Sharing of COVID-19 Vaccine Technology is a Step in the Right Direction, Must be Followed by Concrete Plans to Dismantle Dangerous Healthcare Nationalism”
- July 9, 2020: Brook Baker, Common Dreams, “‘Step in the Right Direction,’ Say Healthcare Advocates as Biden Vows to Share Any Covid-19 Vaccine With the World”
- July 5, 2020: Brook Baker, Voice of America,“Health Authorities Aim to Build Alternative to COVID-19 Nationalism”
- July 1, 2020: Wendy Parmet, The New York Times,“Can You Be Forced to Quarantine or to Stay Home? Your Questions, Answered”
- July 1, 2020: Brook Baker, L.A. Times,“How Secret Deals Could Keep A COVID-19 Drug Out Of Reach For Millions”
- June 30, 2020: Margo Lindauer, Northeastern News,“COVID-19 Is Making Things Harder for Victims of Domestic Abuse. Here’s a Way to Help.”
- June 30, 2020: Brook Baker, HealthGAP, “In Addition to Outrageous Prices and Preferential Supply to the US only, Gilead’s Allowance for Compulsory Licenses in its Remdesivir License Needlessly Limits Supply”
- June 30, 2020: Aziza Ahmed, Brook Baker, Leo Beletsky, Jonathan Kahn, Richard Daynard, Wendy Parmet, and Michael Sinha, O’Neill Institute for National & Global Health Law, “Letter to Congress on WHO Withdrawal from Public Health, Law and International Relations Leaders”
- June 30, 2020: Aziza Ahmed, Human Rights at Home, “June Medical: Reason or Politics?”
- June 29, 2020: Aziza Ahmed, The Atlantic, “What the Supreme Court’s Abortion Decision Means”
- June 29, 2020: Wendy Parmet, City & State New York,“How Do You Enforce a Quarantine?”
- June 29, 2020: Brook Baker, Voice of America,“US Procures Almost Entire Supply of COVID-19 Drug”
- June 29, 2020: Wendy Parmet, Boston News 5, “Travel Advisories Are Inconsistent Among Northeast States”
- June 25, 2020: Wendy Parmet, The Boston Globe, “Should Mass. Residents Be Worried About Tourists From Coronavirus Hotspots Importing More Illness?”
- June 10, 2020: Wendy Parmet and Jeremy Paul, American Journal of Public Health, COVID-19: The First Posttruth Pandemic
- June 11, 2020: Leo Beletsky, WHYY Radio, “Philly Pharmacies Reeling, Rebuilding After More Than a Third Were Looted.”
- May 25, 2020: Brook Baker, Spotlight, “Op-ed: President Ramaphosa Should Support the COVID-19 IP Pool.”
- May 13, 2020: Brook Baker, HealthGAP, “Gilead Remdesivir Licenses: Half Measures Are Not Nearly Good Enough.”
- May 8, 2020: Brook Baker, HealthGAP,“Without a Global Approach to Deadly Inequities in Access to Possible COVID-19 Treatments and Vaccines, Legislative “Fixes” Won’t Make us Safer.”
- April 15, 2020: Brook Baker, Northeastern News, “Should Pharmaceutical Companies Give up Their Patent Protections to Find a Vaccine for COVID-19?”
- April 9, 2020: Wendy Parmet, The New York Times, “America Has Conquered Plagues Before. We Can Do It Again.”
- April 9, 2020: Wendy Parmet, WBUR’s Morning Edition, “On Hubris, Isolationism And Distrust During The Pandemic.”
- April 3, 2020: Brook Baker, HealthGAP, “Expect a Wave of Pro-IP Proposals from Industry in the Wake of the COVID-19.”
- March 31, 2020: Brook Baker, Erasing 76 Crimes, “Uganda: Activists Demand Access to Potential Covid-19 Drug.”
- March 30, 2020: Brook Baker, infojustice, “Drug Companies are Running Scared – Let’s Make Them Run Faster.”
- March 27, 2020: Brook Baker, Pharmalot, “Pressure Mounts to Widen Access to Medical Products That May Combat COVID-19.”
- March 27, 2020: Brook Baker, Health Policy Watch, “European Parliament Members Urge Open Licensing For COVID-19 Products Financed Through EU Grants.”
- March 25, 2020: Brook Baker, Health GAP, “Rationale for Supporting Costa Rica’s Proposal for Emergency COVID-19 Technology IP Pool for All Countries.”
- March 20, 2020: Brook Baker, STAT, “AbbVie will Allow Generic Copies of its HIV Pill in Israel After the Government Approved a License.”
- March 6, 2020: Wendy Parmet, The New York Times,“With Coronavirus, ‘Health Care for Some’ Is a Recipe for Disaster.”
- March 6, 2020: Wendy Parmet, AXIOS, “Trump Policies Could Scare Immigrants Away From Coronavirus Care.”
- March 6, 2020: Wendy Parmet, The American Independent, “Experts Say Officials Must Do More to Protect Detained Immigrants From Coronavirus.”
- March 6, 2020: Wendy Parmet, USA Today, “Immigration Status Should Play No Role in Treatment for Coronavirus.”
- March 6, 2020: Wendy Parmet, The New York Times, “Told to Stay Home, Suspected Coronavirus Patient Attended Event With Dartmouth Students.”
- March 5, 2020: Wendy Parmet, WBUR’s CommonHealth, “Mid Coronavirus Fears, Senators Call For Suspension Of Rule That Could Discourage Immigrants From Seeking Care.”
- March 5, 2020: Wendy Parmet, Wired, ”The US Has a ‘Plan’ to Fight Coronavirus: You.”
- March 5, 2020: Wendy Parmet, Fox News, “New Hampshire Man Ignored Advice to Stay Home Before Testing Positive for Coronavirus, Raises Self-Quarantine Questions.”
- March 4, 2020: Wendy Parmet, STAT, “Trump’s Immigration Policies Will Make the Coronavirus Pandemic Worse.”
- March 4, 2020: Wendy Parmet, Live Science, “The Government Has the Power to Shut Down Entire Cities. but Would That Stop Coronavirus?.”
- March 3, 2020: Wendy Parmet, Fast Company, “What an Equitable Coronavirus Response Should Look Like.”
- February 26, 2020: Wendy Parmet, News Announcement, “Professor Wendy Parmet Among Public Health and Law Experts Who Issue Guidelines for US Response to “Inevitable” Widespread Coronavirus Transmission.”
- February 23, 2020: Wendy Parmet and Jeremy Paul, The Hartford Courant,“Fighting Coronavirus Means Relying on the Truth — Not Political Fiction.”
- February 5, 2020: Wendy Parmet, Northeastern News, “How Long Can China’s Mass Quarantine Stave off a Coronavirus Pandemic?”
- February 4, 2020: Wendy Parmet, The Guardian, “Coronavirus: Could the US Government’s Quarantine and Travel Ban Backfire?”
- February 3, 2020: Leo Beletsky, The New Yorker, “The Wrong Way to Fight the Opioid Crisis.”
- February 3, 2020: Wendy Parmet, The Washington Post, “Why We Should Be Wary of an Aggressive Government Response to Coronavirus.”
- January 31, 2020: Aziza Ahmed, SCOTUSblog, “Symposium: Will the Supreme Court Legitimate Pretext?”
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- September 20, 2019: Brook Baker, Health GAP, “The “Lower Drug Costs Now Act of 2019”: What’s Good, What’s Bad, and What Must be Improved.”
- September 4, 2019: Wendy Parmet, Cognoscenti, “What Deporting Sick Immigrants Says About America.”
- September 3, 2019: Leo Beletsky, The New York Times, “‘Treatment Facilities’ Aren’t What You Think They Are.”
- August 24, 2019: Leo Beletsky, Time, “’Search For & Refuse All Deliveries.’ Amid Trade War, Trump Urges USPS Crackdown on Fentanyl Trafficking From China.”
- August 13, 2019: Wendy Parmet, Health Affairs, “The Trump Administration’s New Public Charge Rule: Implications For Health Care & Public Health.”
- July 26, 2019: Wendy Parmet, Boston Herald, “Mass. Medical Society Backs End to Religious Exemption for Vaccines.”
- July 19, 2019: Leo Beletsky, Northeastern News, “Drug Overdose Deaths Are Down for the First Time in 30 Years. Is This the Turning Point of the Overdose Crisis?”
- July 11, 2019: Leo Beletsky, Fox News, “Drug Dealers in North Carolina Can Now Be Charged With Murder If Someone Overdoses.”
- June 21, 2019: Leo Beletsky, Vice News, “The Absurd Theater of the Modern Cocaine Bust.”
- June 14, 2019: Aziza Ahmed, The New York Times, “New York City Allocates $250,000 for Abortions, Challenging Conservative States.”
- June 13, 2019: Leo Beletsky, NPR, “Federal Grants Restricted To Fighting Opioids Miss The Mark, States Say.”
- June 6, 2019: Wendy Parmet, Hartford Courant,“The Problems of Living in a Post-Truth World.”
- May 22, 2019: Leo Beletsky, Fortune, “’Missed Opportunity.’ Warren’s Opioid Plan Has a Major Blind Spot, Experts Say.”
- April 24, 2019: Brook Baker, STAT,“A Commerce Department Report Causes a Stir Over Whether to Use Federal Law to Lower Drug Price.”
- April 20, 2019: Leo Beletsky, NPR, “Prison For Forced Addiction Treatment? A Parent’s ‘Last Resort’ Has Consequences.”
- April 17, 2019: Claudia Haupt, The Week in Health Law, “Promises and Perils.”
- April 10, 2019: Wendy Parmet, STAT, “Can Officials Require Vaccinations Against Measles? a Century-Old Case May Give Them a Foothold.”
- March 29, 2019: Leo Beletsky, KJZZ Radio Phoenix, “As Arizona Opioid Overdoses Spike, State Looks To Next Steps.”
- March 26, 2019: Wendy Parmet, The New York Times, “New York Suburb Declares Measles Emergency, Barring Unvaccinated Children From Public.”
- March 26, 2019: Wendy Parmet, STAT, “New York County, Declaring Emergency Over Measles, Seeks to Ban Unvaccinated From Public Places.”
- March 12, 2019: Northeastern University School of Law, “Northeastern Law Top 10 for Health Care Law in 2020 US News Ranking.”
- February 28, 2019: Wendy Parmet, STAT, “Gottlieb’s Threat of Federal Vaccine Mandates: Questionable Legality, Poor Policy.”
- February 22, 2019: Leo Beletsky, The Boston Globe, “State Commission on Safe Consumption Sites Expected to Finalize Report by Next Week.”
- February 21, 2019: Aziza Ahmed, Providence Journal, “Letter: Act Doesn’t Allow Abortion Throughout Pregnancy.”
- February 8, 2019: Brook Baker, HealthGap, “The Global Fund is Needlessly Undermining the Global Response to HIV, Tuberculosis, and Malaria with a Weak Replenishment Goal.”
- February 6, 2019: Brook Baker, HealthGap, “Fact Checking Trump’s Drug Pricing Claims in State of the Union.”
- February 6, 2019: Leo Beletsky, The Washington Post, “Justice Department Sues Philadelphia Over Supervised Injection Facility that Aims to Prevent Fatal Drug Overdoses.”
- January 18, 2019: Leo Beletsky, Northeastern News, “Opioid Addiction Is a Public Health Crisis. The Way We’re Talking About It Isn’t Helping.”
- January 14, 2019: Aziza Ahmed, Bill of Health Blog, “Ethical Concerns of DNA Databases used for Crime Control.”
- January 4, 2019: Margo Lindauer, Northeastern University School of Law, “Professor Margo Lindauer ’07 Named a Bellow Scholar.”
- January 3, 2019: Wendy Parmet, Northeastern University School of Law, “AALS Honors Professor Wendy Parmet with Health Law Community Service Award.”
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December 19, 2018: Brook Baker, STAT, “Trump Administration Report Would Preclude Reclaiming Patents as a Way to Lower Drug Prices.”
December 19, 2018: Brook Baker, Health GAP, “The Trump Administration’s New Green Paper is Full of Giveaways to Big Pharma.”
December 19, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Washington Post, “How Republicans Pivoted from the War on Drugs to Cutting Prison Sentences.”
December 8, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Atlantic, “The Strongest Evidence Yet for a Highly Controversial Addiction Treatment.”
December 7, 2018: Wendy Parmet, The V Word, “Immigrant Women’s Health (Public Charge).”
November 30, 2018: Leo Beletsky, WBUR, “Mass. U.S. Attorney’s Prescription Monitoring Raises Privacy Questions.”
November 29, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Boston Globe, “US Attorney Issues Warning to Physicians Over Opioid Prescriptions.”
November 29, 2018: Margo Lindauer, Boston Globe, “Panel is Charged with Reviewing State’s ‘Secret Courts.’”
November 29, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Daily Mail, “Drug Overdose Deaths Soared 10% in 2017 Driven By Fentanyl Flooding the US From China.”
November 28, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Daily Mail, “Meth Hospitalizations Soar 245% in 10 Years: Surge in ER Visits Is Flying ‘off the Radar’ – but It’s Hidden by the Opioid Epidemic.”
November 14, 2018: Brook Baker,infojustice,“MPP-AbbVie License on Glecaprevir and Pibrentasvir (G/P): Backtracking on Geographic Coverage but with Options for Oppositions, Compulsory Licenses, and Negotiated Territorial Expansion.”
October 31, 2018: Leo Beletsky, WXXI News, “Social Stigma Is One Reason The Opioid Crisis Is Hard To Confront.”
October 22, 2018: Leo Beletsky, San Diego Union Tribune, “Intricacies in Law Surrounding Overdose Death Prosecutions Compiled in New Playbook for Defense Attorneys.”
October 15, 2018: Brook Baker, Intellectual Property Watch, “’The People’s Prescription’: New Report Calls For Value Creation Instead Of Value Extraction In Pharmaceutical R&D.”
October 8, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Philadelphia Tribune, “Injection Site Faces Criticism, Resistance.”
October 4, 2018: Aziza Ahmed, Leo Beletsky, Richard Daynard, Claudia Haupt, New York Times, “The Senate Should Not Confirm Kavanaugh.”
September 30, 2018: Margo Lindauer, Boston Globe, “Inside Our Secret Courts.”
September 26, 2018: Patricia Illingworth, News@Northeastern, “If ‘Truth Isn’t Truth,’ Then What Is It?”
September 17, 2018: Leo Beletsky, New York Times, “The Federal Agency That Fuels the Opioid Crisis.”
August 31, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Huffpost, “Safe Injection Sites Might Not Solve The Opioid Crisis, But They Won’t Make It Worse.”
August 27, 2018: Richard Daynard, The Virgin Islands Consortium, “USVI Juries Deliver $113 Million Verdicts Against R.J. Reynolds To Families Of Deceased Newport Smokers.”
August 15, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Gizmodo, “Skyrocketing Rates of Fentanyl Deaths Led to the Deadliest Year for Opioid Overdoses Ever.”
August 13, 2018: Brook Baker, infojustice, “A Sliver of Hope: Analyzing Voluntary Licenses to Accelerate Affordable Access to Medicines.”
July 24, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Appeal, “A Pennsylvania Man Survived an Overdose Only to Be Charged With Homicide.”
July 22, 2018: Jennifer Lea Huer and Wendy E. Parmet, Bill of Health – Harvard Law, “Introduction to “Diseases of Despair: The Role of Policy and Law.”
July 16, 2018: Leo Beletsky, CNN, “Drug users on probation can be required to remain drug-free, court rules.”
July 16, 2018: Leo Beletsky, WBUR News, “Judges Can Require Drug Users On Probation To Remain Drug-Free, Court Rules.”
July 13, 2018: Brook Baker, infojustice , “Wink, Wink: Pfizer agrees to roll back price hikes.”
July 12, 2018: Wendy Parmet, The New York Times, “Democrats Overstate Kavanaugh’s Writings on the Affordable Care Act.”
July 10, 2018: Margo Lindauer, Burlington Free Press, “Domestic violence: How an ‘and’ instead of an ‘or’ let man avoid court sanction.”
July 10, 2018: Aziza Ahmed, Herald Tribune,“MEDICAL Q&A: How medicine has changed since abortion became legal.”
July 6, 2018: Brook Baker, infojustice, “Misleading Ab”Use” of Percentages in Drug Price Escalation, infojustice.”
July 6, 2018: Leo Beletsky, NPR,“With More Opioid Use, People Are More Likely To Get Caught Up In The Justice System.”
July 1, 2018: Aziza Ahmed, The New York Times,“Bulwark Against an Abortion Ban? Medical Advances.”
June 23, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Marietta Times, “Needle exchange: Program proposal an attempt to prevent the spread of disease.”
June 22, 2018: Leo Beletsky, WHTC, “Opioid reclassification linked to increase in illegal online sales.”
June 13, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Scientific American,“Can Opioid Legislation Make a Dent in the National Epidemic?”
June 13, 2018: Leo Beletsky, EurekAlert,“US painkiller restriction linked to ‘significant’ increase in illicit online drug trading.”
June 6, 2018: Michael Pollastri, Northeastern News,“This Tropical Disease is Second Only to Malaria as a Parasitic Killer. So Why Haven’t You Heard of it?”
May 11, 2018: Wendy Parmet, Washington Post, “Under Trump Proposal, Lawful Immigrants Might Be Inclined To Shun Health Benefits.”
May 2, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Yale School of Medicine, “Involuntary Treatment for Substance Use Disorder in the Age of the Opioid Crisis: Ethical, Legal and Patient Care Considerations.”
July 24, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Appeal, “A Pennsylvania Man Survived an Overdose Only to Be Charged with Homicide.”
July 22, 2018: Wendy E. Parmet and Jennifer Lea Huer, Bill of Health, “Introduction to Diseases of Despair: The Role of Policy and Law.”
July 16, 2018: Leo Beletsky, CNN, “Drug users can be required to remain drug-free, court rules.”
July 13, 2018: Brook Baker, infojustice, “Wink, Wink: Pfizer agrees to roll back price hikes.”
July 12, 2018: Wendy E. Parmet, NYT, “Democrats Overstate Kavanaugh’s Writings on the Affordable Care Act.”
July 10, 2018: Margo Lindauer, Burlington Free Press, “Domestic violence: How an ‘and’ instead of an ‘or’ let man avoid court sanction.”
July 10, 2018: Aziza Ahmed, Herald-Tribune, “Medical Q&A: How medicine has changed since abortion became legal.”
July 6, 2018: Brook Baker, infojustice, “Misleading ‘use’ of percentages in drug price escalation.”
July 6, 2018: Leo Beletsky, NPR, “With More Opioid Use, People Are More Likely To Get Caught Up In The Justice System.”
July 1, 2018: Aziza Ahmed, The New York Times, “Bulwark Against an Abortion Ban? Medical Advances.”
June 23, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Marietta Times, “Needle exchange: Program proposal an attempt to prevent the spread of disease.”
June 13, 2018: Leo Beletsky, STAT, “Can Opioid Legislation Make a Dent in the National Epidemic?”
June 6, 2018: Michael Pollastri, News@Northeastern, “This tropical disease is second only to malaria as a parasitic killer. So why haven’t you heard of it?”
May 11, 2018: Wendy E. Parmet, The Washington Post, “Under Trump Proposal, Lawful Immigrants Might Be Inclined To Shun Health Benefits.”
April 30, 2018: Leo Beletsky, COSSA 2018 Policy Conference and Social Science Advocacy Day,“Combatting the Opioid Epidemic Panel.”
April 27, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Week in Health Law,“Diseases of Despair (2) Healthcare Law and Policy” Podcast
April 24, 2018: Emily Spieler, CareForce Travelogues Screening Panel.
April 20, 2018: Wendy E. Parmet and Elisabeth Ryan, Health Affairs blog, “New Dangers For Immigrants And The Health Care System.”
April 18, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Kaiser Health News, “Surgeon general wants naloxone widely on hand. Is this feasible?”
April 17, 2018: Leo Beletsky, STAT, “Nursing homes routinely refuse people on addiction treatment – which some experts say is illegal”
March 23, 2018: Brook Baker, law360, “Bayh-Dole Could Be A Drug Pricing Fix, If The Feds Want It”
March 22, 2018: Patricia Illingworth, The Hastings Center Bioethics Forum Essay, “Businesses, Guns, and Human Rights.”
March 21, 2018: Leo Beletsky, News@Northeastern, “How Opioid Lawsuit Money Could Help Solve the Epidemic.”
March 2, 2018: Leo Beletsky, News@Northeastern, “Are Safe Injection Facilities for Heroin Users a Step in the Right Direction?”
February 27, 2018: Gregory Curfman, Medpage Today, “‘Hmm, Maybe I Don’t Want an LVAD.’”
February 23, 2018: Matthew Miller, NPR, “Experts Say There’s Little Connection Between Mental Health And Mass Shootings.”
February 21, 2018: Wendy E. Parmet, The Daily Free Press, “Ed Markey Announces Push for Universal Flu Vaccine.”
February 15, 2018: Leo Beletsky, In Justice Today, “The Biggest Winners in Trump Budget: The DEA and the War on Drugs.”
February 14, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Delmarva Now, “Countering opioid abuse: Bill would give parents more control over child’s treatment.”
February 14, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The New York Times, “How a Police Chief, a Governor and a Sociologist Would Spend $100 Billion to Solve the Opioid Crisis.”
February 14, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Vice, “Rhode Island Found a Way to Cut Post-Prison Overdose Deaths in Half.”
February 12, 2018: Wendy Parmet, Vox.com, “President Trump has been dangerously silent on this year’s deadly flu epidemic.”
February 12, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Globe Post, “America, We Have an Opioid Problem.”
February 7, 2018: Leo Beletsky, HuffPost, “FDA Releases Kratom Death Data, Undermines Its Own Claims About Drug’s Deadly Harms.”
February 5, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Kaiser Health News, “California To Drug Users: We’ll Pay For You To Test Your Dope.”
February 4, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Columbus Dispatch, “Death penalty is unjust for opioid addict.”
February 2, 2018: Gary Young, News@Northeastern, “Why We Should Take Amazon’s Ambitions to Disrupt Healthcare Seriously.”
February 1, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Bangor Daily News, “Cannabis capitalists exploit loopholes by ‘gifting’ the drug.”
January 31, 2018: Leo Beletsky, CBS News, “The Backstory of Trump’s Foundering Opioid Fight.”
January 31, 2018: Leo Beletsky, The Spokesman-Review, “Cannabis Capitalists Exploit Loopholes by ‘Gifting’ the Drug.”
January 30, 2018: Richard Daynard, USA Today, “Subpoenas Flying in Tony Gwynn Tobacco Case as Mr. Padre Documentary Premieres.”
January 25, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Wendy Parmet & Elisabeth Ryan, Harvard Health Blog, “Involuntary treatment for substance use disorder: A misguided response to the opioid crisis.”
January 24, 2018: Public Health Advocacy Institute, “PHAI Submits Comment Opposing Proposed School Food Nutrition Rollbacks.”
January 24, 2018: Aziza Ahmed, presenter, Workshop on Regulating Family, Sex & Gender, “Dead but Not Disabled: The Feminist Legal Struggle for Recognition in the AIDS Response.”
January 22, 2018: Leo Beletsky, In Justice Today, “Death by Prosecution: Was There a Bigger Player in Drug Case Involving Man Who Killed Himself After Federal Indictment?”
January 20, 2018: Wendy Parmet, Vox.com, “Here’s How the Government Shutdown Ends.”
January 18, 2018: Wendy Parmet, Health Affairs Blog, “Immigration and Health Care Under the Trump Administration.”
January 17, 2018: Patricia Illingworth, MetroMBA, “Northeastern Professors Talk Dangers of Aetna-CVS Mega Merger”
January 16, 2018: Leo Beletsky, News@Northeastern, “Rescinding Federal Marijuana Enforcement Guidelines Could Spark ‘Chaos’”
January 15, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Slate, “The Opioid Crisis Is Blurring the Legal Lines Between Victim and Perpetrator”
January 12, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Vox.com, “Why a Better Economy Won’t Stop the Opioid Epidemic,”
January 10, 2018: Richard G. Wamai and Michael Pollastri, News@Northeastern, “Why You Should Care About Rare Tropical Diseases,”
January 9, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Vice News, “Forced Rehab Isn’t the Solution,”
January 8, 2018: Leo Beletsky, Governing.com, “Drug Overdose Deaths Soar Nationally But Plateau in Some States,”
January 8, 2018: Gary Young, HealthExec, “Tax-exempt hospitals haven’t greatly increased community benefit spending,”
January 4, 2018: Leo Beletsky, presenter, The Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, “Using the Law and Its Enforcement to Address the Overdose Crisis: Emerging Trends and Implications,”
January 2018: Gregory Curfman and Leo Beletsky, JAMA Internal Medicine, “Benefits, Limitations, and Value of Abuse-Deterrent Opioids,” -
- December 27, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Medical Press, “To address opioid crisis, researches call for focus on root causes of suffering”
- December 27, 2017: Leo Beletsky, guest, The Robert Scott Bell Show, “Finally – Someone Gets It Right”
- December 22, 2017: Kara Swanson, The Wall Street Journal, “The New Gene Tool Crispr Sparks a History War”
- December 21, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Vice News, “How the GOP tax bill could lead to more opioid overdoses”
- December 21, 2017: Leo Beletsky, American Journal of Public Health, “Opioid Crisis: No Easy Fix to Its Social and Economic Determinants”
- December 20, 2017: Public Health Advocacy Institute, “Developing State Policy Recommendations for Safe Drinking Water Procurement in Child Care Centers and Schools”
- December 12, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Politico, “Health IT Shines at White House Event”
- December 8, 2017: Jennifer Huer, Public Health Law Watch, “Why is Congress not prioritizing health care for children and other vulnerable populations?”
- December 8, 2017: Kristin Madison, News@Northeastern, “How the CVS-Aetna merger could improve—or undermine—healthcare”
- December 6, 2017: Emily Spieler, Rutgers University Law Review, “(Re)Assessing the Grand Bargain: Compensation for Work Injuries in the United States, 1900-2017”
- December 6, 2017: Gregory Curfman, American Heart Journal, “A ‘shocking’ new code status”
- December 6, 2017: Wendy Parmet, News@Northeastern, “What Happens if the Government Shuts Down? Faculty Experts Explain”
- November 22, 2017: Brook Baker, panelist, 1st World Conference on Access to Medical Products and International Laws for Trade and Health in the Context of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, “Achieving SDGs: Use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Initiatives including in Trade Agreements”
- November 20, 2017: Brook Baker, Health Gap, “Expanding Access to Life-Saving Medicines: What Government Must Do Next to Continue Reforming Drug Patents in South Africa”
- November 18, 2017: Gregory Curfman, The Wall Street Journal, “Outcome Health Offers Voluntary Buyouts to Employers”
- November 16, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Bill of Health, “The Week in Health Law” Podcast
- November 15, 2017: Leo Beletsky, WBUR, “Baker Calls For Improvements to Opioid Treatment and Prescribing”
- November 10, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Commonwealth Magazine, “Addressing inmate addiction must be a priority”
- November 8, 2017: Leo Beletsky, In Justice Today, “Despite ‘Public Health’ Messaging, Law Enforcement Increasingly Prosecutes Overdoses as Homicides”
- November 3, 2017: Gregory Curfman, Public Health Law Watch, “Generic Drugs and the PTAB”
- October 30, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Blog Talk Radio, “Law and order despite war on drugs”
- October 30, 2017: Aziza Ahmed, presenter, Health Law Policy, Bioethics and Biotechnology Workshop, “’Dead But Not Disabled’: A Feminist Legal Struggle for Recognition”
- October 29, 2017: Emily Spieler, Business Insurance, “Safety act expanded employer responsibilities”
- October 27, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Health Data Management, “Prescription drug monitoring programs come under fire”
- October 24, 2017: Brook Baker, Northeastern University Law Review Forum, “New Intellectual Property Strategy Enhancing Access to Medicines Announced in South Africa”
- October 18, 2017: Leo Beletsky, The Cut, “The Opioid Epidemic Is Changing Too Fast for Any Solutions to Stick”
- October 11, 2017: Elisabeth J. Ryan, Public Health Law Watch, “Smart Gun Technology and the Potential to Save Lives”
- October 11, 2017: Leo Beletsky, The Berkeley Beacon, “Homelessness on Campus”
- October 10, 2017: Leo Beletsky, WBUR, “How Massachusetts Deals With Opioid Addicts: Jail Or Rehab?”
- October 5, 2017: Leo Beletsky, presenter, “Drug War Dragnets and Trans Health: Patient Privacy in the Age of Prescription Monitoring Programs”
- October 5, 2017: Jason Potter, Public Health Law Watch, “Navigating Minor Consent Laws Toward Confidential PrEP Access for Adolescents”
- October 4, 2017: Patricia Illingworth, Public Health Law Watch, “Making America Healthy Again: Analyzing Trump’s Take on the Social Determinants of Health”
- September 29, 2017: Wendy Parmet, Bill of Health, “American Beverage Association v. San Francisco: When the First Amendment Jeopardizes Public Health”
- September 17, 2017: Leo Beletsky, The New York Times, “Amid Opioid Crisis, Insurers Restrict Pricey, Less Addictive Painkillers”
- September 13, 2017: Stephen Intille, News@Northeastern, “What We’ve Gained—And Lost—After A Decade With Smartphones”
- September 11, 2017: Aziza Ahmed, Texas Law Review, “Abortion in a Post-Truth Moment: A Response to Erwin Chemerinsky and Michele Goodwin”
- August 30, 2017: Leo Beletsky,KALW, “Do San Francisco police scare drug users away from needle exchange sites?”
- August 28, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Chicago Tribune, “As more heroin is mixed with fentanyl, opioid crisis turns even deadlier”
- August 21, 2017: Brook Baker, STAT, “Pharma industry ‘getting away with murder’ abroad thanks to Trump’s policies”
- August 16, 2017: Leo Beletsky and Elisabeth Ryan, The Crime Report, “The Wrong Path: Involuntary Treatment and the Opioid Crisis”
- August 15, 2017: Elisabeth Ryan, Health Affairs blog, “The ‘Tanning Tax’ Is A Public Health Success Story”
- August 11, 2017: Patricia Illingworth, Health Affairs blog, “Making American Healthy Again: Analyzing Trump’s Take On The Social Determinants Of Health”
- August 9, 2017: Gregory Curfman, News@Northeastern, “Leading Voice on Health Policy Joins Northeastern Law Center”
- August 9, 2017: Patricia Illingworth, News@Northeastern, “Gene Editing Embryos May Lead to ‘Pursuit of a Conception of Perfection’”
- August 9, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Reuters, “Underground safe haven keeps drug users off street, may save lives”
- August 7, 2017: Leo Beletsky, The Boston Globe, “Can giving inmates access to addiction medication help ease the opioid crisis?”
- August 4, 2017: Leo Beletsky, ABA Journal, “State databases track prescriptions of certain drugs considered addictive or dangerous”
- August 4, 2017: Leo Beletsky, reason.com, “Researchers Highlight the Government’s Complicity in Heroin Deaths”
- August 3, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Vox, “The opioid epidemic, explained”
- August 2, 2017: Leo Beletsky, The Marshall Project, “Guess Who’s Tracking Your Prescription Drugs?”
- August 1, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Vox, “How to stop the deadliest drug overdose crisis in American history”
- July 18, 2017: Brook Baker, New York Times, “Escaping Big Pharma’s Pricing with Patent-Free Drugs”
- July 14, 2017: Leo Beletsky, The Boston Globe, “Worse than jail: Addicts civilly committed by DOC abused them and failed to treat them”
- July 13, 2017: Wendy Parmet, presenter, International Congress on Law and Mental Health in Prague, “Access to Healthcare for Refugees: International Needs, International Rights”
- July 13, 2017: Brook Baker, Techdirt, “Canada Capitulates: Supreme Court Throws Away Government’s Great Pharma Patent Victory”
- July 11, 2017: Aziza Ahmed, ACS Blog, “Abortion and U.S. Foreign Policy: The Mexico City Policy”
- July 3, 2017: Brook Baker, Health Gap, “Canada Blinks in Face of US/Pharma Pressure – Supreme Court Adopts Wink-Wink Patent Utility Rule”
- June 30, 2017: Brook Baker, FirstPost, “US pressure on India to grant more patents on pharma products ‘appalling’, say health advocates”
- June 25, 2017: Wendy Parmet, Bill of Health, “Better Care Act Targets Immigrants”
- June 23, 2017: Brook Baker, Health Gap blog, “Trump’s Draft Executive Order on Pharmaceutical Pricing: Dangerous Medicine for Consumers at Home and Abroad”
- June 22, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Vice News, “GOP health care bill would make the world’s worst drug crisis even worse”
- June 22, 2017: The Center for Health Policy and Law, News at Northeastern, “What’s Next for Healthcare Reform?”
- June 21, 2017: Brook Baker, Health Gap blog, “Trump’s Drug Pricing Executive Order is Likely to be an Unfettered Giveaway to Big Pharma: Insights from 2017 Special 301 Report”
- June 14, 2017: Leo Beletsky, presenter, Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Symposium, “Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome in the Age of the Opioid Crisis: Policy, Politics and Patient Care”
- June 14, 2017: Wendy Parmet, Bill of Health, “Newtown: A Public Health Law Perspective”
- June 10, 2017: Jennifer Huer, presenter, 2017 Health Law Professors Conference, “Balancing Patient Privacy Against the Importance of Collecting Determinants of Health Data”
- June 9, 2017: Aziza Ahmed: presenter, 2017 Health Law Professors Conference, “Science, Crime, and Reproduction: The Troubling Case of Purvi Patel”
- June 9, 2017: Leo Beletsky, presenter, 2017 Health Law Professors Conference, “America’s Favorite Antidote: The Role of Punishment as an Overdose Prevention Tool”
- June 9, 2017: Wendy Parmet, presenter, 2017 Health Law Professors Conference, “Applying the First Amendment to Physician Speech: A Public Health Approach”
- June 9, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Vice News, “‘A drop in the bucket’: FDA moves to kick prescription painkiller off the market”
- June 5, 2017: Wendy Parmet, guest, ‘The Week in Health Law’ Podcast
- June 2017: Patricia Illingworth and Wendy Parmet, Health Affairs BookMarks, “The Health of Newcomers: Immigration, Health Policy, and The Case for Global Solidarity”
- May 31, 2017: Leo Beletsky, course contributor, edX, “The Opioid Crisis in America”
- May 30, 2017: Wendy Parmet and Jennifer Huer, Bill of Health, “New Blog Symposium: Between Complacency and Panic – Legal, Ethical and Policy Responses to Emerging Infectious Diseases”
- May 27, 2017: Richard Daynard, NYT Opinion, “The Risks of U.S. Inaction on Climate Change”
- May 24, 2017: Brook Baker, Intellectual Property Watch, “Beyond the Obvious – Direct and Indirect Territorial Coverage of MPP/ViiV Voluntary License for Dolutegravir”
- May 22, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Crain’s New York Business, “Will stepping up drug-dealer arrests help alleviate the opioid crisis?”
- May 18, 2017: Wendy Parmet, The New England Journal of Medicine, “Physicians, Firearms, and Free Speech – Overturning Florida’s Firearm-Safety Gag Rule”
- May 17, 2017: Wendy Parmet, speaker, Lahey Clinic Hospital’s Medical Ethics Lecture Series
- April 18, 2017: Wendy Parmet, panelist, The Petrie-Flom Center’s panel discusion and film screening, “Healing in the Wake of Community Violence: Lessons from Newtown and Beyond”
- April 18, 2017: Leo Beletsky, BBC News, “Officers rue the return of US ‘war on drugs’”
- April 12, 2017: Aziza Ahmed, Daily Princetonian, “2017-2018 LAPA Fellows include alumnus, health law specialist”
- April 11, 2017: Patricia Illingworth, The Huffington Post, “How ‘America First’ Undermines Our Health”
- April 10, 2017: Leo Beletsky, presenter, The Petrie-Flom Center’s Health Law Workshop
- April 7, 2017: Brook Baker, panelist, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal’s “Inside the ‘Global Super Court’: Examining and Reshaping Investor-State Arbitration” Conference
- April 6, 2017: Brook Baker, Madhyam, “Eli Lilly’s ISDS Patent Claim against Canada Defeated”
- April 5, 2017: Leo Beletsky, WBUR CommonHealth, “Massachusetts Medical Society Trustees Ask Members to Support Safe Injection Facilities for Drug Users”
- April 1, 2017: Brook Baker, speaker, 23rd Annual Global Development Conference at Harvard University
- March 22, 2017: Kristin Madison, news@Northeastern, “Should Employers Be Allowed to Require Genetic Test Results?”
- March 17, 2017: Patricia Illingworth, news@Northeastern, “Understanding the Impact of the Proposed Healthcare Reform Bill”
- March 16, 2017: Wendy Parmet, news@Northeastern, “Understanding the Complex Issue of Healthcare Reform”
- March 11, 2017: Wendy Parmet, Bill of Health, “Repeal, Replace and Leave Out Immigrants: The American Health Care Act’s Impact on Immigrants”
- March 9, 2017: Leo Beletsky, Vice News, “The Opioid Crisis Would Probably Get Worse Under Trumpcare”
- March 4, 2017: Wendy Parmet, Vox, “Trump has set the US up to botch a global health crisis”
- March 3, 2017: Aziza Ahmed, Health Affairs Blog, “Reproductive Health Under Assault”
- March 1, 2017: Brook Baker, Nature, “Hepatitis C drugs re-energize global fight over patents”
- February 23, 2017: Wendy Parmet, news@Northeastern, “Healthcare & Immigration | Professors: Providing healthcare for non-US citizens a ‘moral obligation’”
- February 22, 2017: Wendy Parmet, Health Affairs Blog, “Should Government Officials Be Held Responsible For Failing To Protect Health?”
- February 11, 2017: Brook Baker, speaker, Student Global AIDS Campaign’s National Conference
- February 6, 2017: Brook Baker, STAT, “Dear President Trump: Your big idea on drug pricing is half-baked”
- February 2, 2017: Wendy Parmet et al, NPR Health News, “CDC Seeks Controversial New Quarantine Powers To Stop Outbreaks”
- January 28, 2017: Brook Baker, The Lancet, “The battle for access to medicines for all”
- January 27, 2017: Leo Beletsky, The Washington Post, “The $4,500 injection to stop heroin overdoses”
- January 23, 2017: Wendy Parmet et al, The New York Times, “Why the CDC’s Power to Quarantine Should Worry Us”
- January 20, 2017: Leo Beletsky, The Washington Post, “The $4,500 Injection to Stop Heroin Overdoses”
- January 2017: Wendy Parmet and Patricia Illingworth author The Health of Newcomers: Immigration, Health Policy, and the Case for Global Solidarity (NYU Press)
- January 20, 2017: Aziza Ahmed, panelist, Boston University School of Law’s “Critical Race Theory and the Health Sciences” Symposium.
- January 14, 2017: Leo Beletsky, The Daily Beast, “‘Safer’ Oxycontin Caused Thousands of Heroin Deaths, Researchers Find”
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- December 20, 2016: Wendy Parmet et al, Health Security, “Federal Powers to Control Communicable Conditions: Call for Reform to Assure National Preparedness and Promote Global Security”
- December 11, 2016: Wendy Parmet, Bill of Health, “Public Health under the Trump Administration”
- December 6, 2016: Leo Beletsky, Vice News, “Worsening the Crisis: The opioid epidemic could get even worse if Trump repeals Obamacare”
- November 30, 2016: Wendy Parmet, news@Northeastern, “3Qs: What’s Next for ‘Obamacare’ under President Trump?”
- November 28, 2016: Leo Beletsky, news@Northeastern, “Marijuana in Massachusetts, What Happens Now That It’s Legal?”
- November 18, 2016: Brook Baker, Yes! Magazine, “How a Battle Over Affordable Medicine Helped Kill the TPP”
- November 14, 2016: Leo Beletsky, Boston Magazine, “Public Health Experts Have Mixed Feelings About Legal Marijuana in Massachusetts”
- November 10, 2016: Wendy Parmet, Boston Herald, “Kalter: Obamacare Likely to Face Long, Gradual Revamp Under Trump”
- November 9, 2016: Kristin Madison, Health Affairs, “Addressing Risks of Employer Involvement in Creating a Culture of Health”
- November 1, 2016: Brook Baker, STAT, “Novartis Has a History of Charging High Prices for Drugs in Colombia”
- October 14, 2016: Wendy Parmet, “Parmet, in Collaboration with Yale Law School and Others, Submits Comments on the CDC’s Proposed Quarantine Rules”
- October 4, 2016: Richard Daynard, The Boston Globe, “Make Warnings on Cigarette Packs Scary, Health Groups Say”
- October 1, 2016: David Rochefort, “Rochefort Co-Authors Analysis of ACA Implementation in Rhode Island”
- September 19, 2016: Brook Baker, The Nation, “Free-Trade Deals Are Making It Much Harder to Fight AIDS”
- September 19, 2016: Brook Baker, BloombergMarkets, “How Big Pharma Pressures States to Pay for Pricey Pills”
- September 10, 2016: Wendy Parmet, YOUR HEALTH Radio, “Gun Violence, the First Amendment and Medical Advice”
- August 15, 2016: Leo Beletsky, POZ Magazine, “On the Safe Side”
- August 12, 2016: Leo Beletsky, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, “DEA Is Cracking down on Physicians Who Overprescribe Pills”
- July 20, 2016: Brook Baker, The Wire, “Risky Medicine: Why FDI in India’s Generic Drugs Industry Could be a Bad Idea”
- June 29, 2016, Aziza Ahmed, news@Northeastern, “3Qs: Supreme Court Strikes down Part of Texas Abortion Law”
- June 7, 2016, Wendy Parmet, news@Northeastern, “Law Professor Wins Prestigious Teaching Award”
- May 27, 2016, Leo Beletsky, CBS News’ The Crime Report, “The New Politics of the “War on Drugs””
- May 23, 2016, Richard Daynard, The New York Times, “Tony Gwynn’s Family Sues Tobacco Industry, Seeking Recourse Over Fatal Habit”
- May 19, 2016, Wendy Parmet, The New England Journal of Medicine, “Wollschlaeger v. Governor of Florida — The First Amendment, Physician Speech, and Firearm Safety”
- April 11, 2016, Brook Baker, news@Northeastern, “Northeastern Researchers Examine the Zika Pandemic”
- April 8, 2016, Wendy Parmet, Bill of Health Podcast, “The Week in Health Law”
- April 5, 2016, Brook Baker, Nature News and Comment, “What New GSK Patent Policy Means for the Developing World”
- March 23, 2016, Leo Beletsky, Vice.com, “Calling the Cops After Your Friend Overdoses Can Still Get You Arrested”
- March 22, 2016, Wendy Parmet, WalletHub, “2016’s Fattest Cities in America”
- March 17, 2016, Kristin Madison, HealthAffairs Blog, “The EEOC’s Role In Reshaping Wellness Programs”
- March 9, 2016, Wendy Parmet, HealthAffairs Blog, “The Curious Case Of The Docs Versus The Glocks: Firearms, The First Amendment, And Physician Speech”
- March 8, 2016, Brook Baker, PLOS Medicine, “Trans-Pacific Partnership Provisions in Intellectual Property, Transparency, and Investment Chapters Threaten Access to Medicines in the US and Elsewhere”
- March 2, 2016, Leo Beletsky, news@Northeastern, “Are Safe Injection Facilities for Heroin Users a Step in the Right Direction?“
- February, 2016, Brook Baker, Law360, “Experts Get Voice In Lilly’s $370M Canadian Patent Fight”
- February 25, 2016: Leo Beletsky, NPR’s Health News, “Ithaca’s Plan To Open A Safe Site For Heroin Users Faces Legal Hurdles”
- February 11, 2016: Leo Beletsky and Wendy Parmet, HealthAffairsBlog, “Expanding Coercive Treatment Is The Wrong Solution For The Opioid Crisis”
- February 8, 2016: Leo Beletsky, VICE, “Why Isn’t America Doing the One Thing That Would Reduce Heroin Deaths Right Now?“
- January 15, 2016: Martha Davis, Human Rights at Home, “Whole Woman’s Health v. Cole: The Face of “Human Dignity””
- December 20, 2016: Wendy Parmet et al, Health Security, “Federal Powers to Control Communicable Conditions: Call for Reform to Assure National Preparedness and Promote Global Security”
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- December 2, 2015: Wendy Parmet, The New York Times, “Ebola Crisis Passes, but Questions on Quarantines Persist”
- November 10, 2015: Wendy Parmet, HealthAffairs Blog, “Trade, Health, And Tobacco Exceptionalism: The TPP Tobacco Carve-Out”
- November 4, 2015: Leo Beletsky, VICE, “Can Locking Up Pill-Pushing Doctors Put an End to Prescription Drug Abuse?“
- October 12, 2015: Brook Baker, Infojustice, “LDCs Be Damned: USTR and Big Pharma seeks to eviscerate Least Developed Countries’ Insulation From Pharmaceutical Monopolies”
- October 6, 2015: Brook Baker, Science Insider, “Trade Agreement Praised and Panned”
- September 22, 2015: Leo Beletsky, New York Daily News, “Could Safe Injection Sites for IV Drug Users Be in the Works for NYC?“
- September 7, 2015: Brook Baker, Infojustice, “Will the U.S. Create Barriers to LDCs’ Future Access to Medicines?”
- September 1, 2015: Leo Beletsky, American Journal of Public Health, “Police Encounters Among Needle Exchange Clients in Baltimore: Drug Law Enforcement as a Structural Determinant of Health”
- July 23, 2015: Wendy Parmet, The New England Journal of Medicine, “Shifting Vaccination Politics — The End of Personal-Belief Exemptions in California”
- July 1, 2015: Wendy Parmet, Yahoo! Health, “What California’s Strict New Vaccination Law Means for the Rest of the Country”
- June 26, 2015: Wendy Parmet, news@Northeastern, “3Qs: Supreme Court upholds healthcare law for second time”
- June 25, 2015: Wendy Parmet, New England Cable News, “Reaction Pours in on Supreme Court’s Obamacare Decision”
- June 25, 2015: Wendy Parmet, WGBH News, “Obamacare: Massachusetts Provides SCOTUS The Basis For Upholding Law It Inspired”
- June 25, 2015: Wendy Parmet, Human Rights at Home Blog, “Health Care: Here to Stay”
- June 15, 2015: Leo Beletsky, news@Northeastern, “Legal Experts: Law Enforcement Officers Should be Authorized to Administer Overdose Antidote”
- May 28, 2015: Richard Daynard, The Boston Globe, “These 26 states won’t let you sue McDonald’s for making you fat. The surprising consequence of banning obesity lawsuits.”
- May 13, 2015: Kristin Madison, Health Affairs Blog, “The ACA, The ADA, And Wellness Program Incentives”
- April 30, 2015: Chris Banthin, PHAI, The Boston Globe, “The Plight of the Smoking Man”
- March 26, 2015: Professor Wendy Parmet, The New England Journal of Medicine, “Health Care for Immigrants — Implications of Obama’s Executive Action”
- March 26, 2015: PHAI Takes Cigarette Companies to Court
- March 215, 2015: Beletsky Teams with UCSD and El Colegio de la Frontera Norte to Promote Prevention of HIV in Mexico
- March 10, 2015: U.S. News & World Report ranks NUSL #17 for health care law.
- March 19, 2015: Professor Brook Baker, Harvard University’s Health and Human Rights Journal, “Brook Baker on Intellectual Property Rights, Free Trade, and Access to Medicines”
- March 18, 2015: Professor Leo Beletsky, Huffington Post Politics, “As Heroin Deaths Skyrocket, Prescription Monitoring Programs May Do More Harm”
- February 20, 2015: Professor Wendy Parmet, HealthAffairs Blog, “In Regulating E-Cigarettes, No Easy Fix For The FDA”
- February 6, 2015: Professor Martha Davis, Human RIghts at Home, “Vaccinations and Human Rights, American Style”
- February 3, 2015: Professor Wendy Parmet, Harvard Law’s Bill of Health, “Vaccine Mandates: Second Circuit Reaffirms their Constitutionality”
- February 2, 2015: Professor Wendy Parmet, Huffington Post, “Rand Paul’s Vaccine Comments Are Latest Chapter In 136-Year-Old Debate”
- January 30, 2015: Professor Brook Baker, Express Pharma, “Opinion: Prof Brook K Baker on the Impact of US Pressure to Change India’s IP Laws”
- January 16, 2015: Professor Brook Baker, TheBodyPRO.com, “The Cynical Connectedness of Gilead’s Hepatitis C Pricing and Anti-Diversion Policies”
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- December 30, 2014: Professor Richard Daynard, Daily Business Review, “There’s More to Tobacco Cases Than Engle” (subscription required)
- October 27, 2014: Professor Wendy Parmet, WGBH, “Ebola Outbreak: “The Ethics of Mandatory Quarantines”
- October 26, 2014: Professor Wendy Parmet, The New York Times, “The Flu, TB and Now Ebola: A Rare Legal Remedy Returns”
- October 8, 2014: Professor Brook Baker,The Wall Street Journal, “Will a US-India Working Group do the Bidding of the Pharma Industry?”
- October 7, 2014: Northeastern University Launches JD/MPH to Meet Urban Health Challenges
- July 31, 2014: Professor Kara Swanson, The Atlantic, “Banks of Blood and Sperm”
- July 20, 2014: Professor Richard Daynard, Reuters, “RJ Reynolds’ $23-Billion Punitive Damage Award Unlikely to Stand”
- June 01, 2014: Professor Kara Swanson, The Boston Globe, “The Trouble with Organ Banking”
- April 22, 2014: Professor Leo Beletsky, The Boston Globe, “Massachusetts Limits the Use of the Potent Painkiller Zohydro”
- April 15, 2014: Professor Leo Beletsky, The Boston Globe, “US Judge Blocks Mass. Ban on Painkiller”
- April 9, 2014: Professor Leo Beletsky, MedPage Today, “Naloxone ‘Stigma’ a Barrier to Prescribing?”
- March 17, 2014: Professor Leo Beletsky: The New York Times: “A Drug that Should be Easier to Get”
- February 7, 2014: Professor Richard Daynard: The Washington Post: “Experts Increasingly Contemplate End of Smoking”
- February 07, 2014: Professor Brook Baker: National Public Radio: “Maker Of $1,000 Hepatitis C Pill Looks To Cut Its Cost Overseas”
- January 24, 2014: Professor Brook Baker: Delhi Science Forum: “South African Patients Need our Solidarity”
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- September 18, 2013: Cara Wilking (PHAI): Huffington Post: “Legal Tools to Stop Junk Food Marketing to Children”
- August 29, 2013: Cara Wilking (PHAI): TIME: “Forget the Food: Fast Food Ads Aimed at Kids Feature Lots of Giveaways”
- August 14, 2013: Professor Wendy Parmet: The New England Journal of Medicine: “Holes in the Safety Net — Legal Immigrants’ Access to Health Insurance”
- July 25, 2013: Professor Leo Beletsky: Huffington Post: “We Can Fight This Feeling: The Loss of Cory Monteith and How We Can Prevent Future Overdose Fatalities”
- June 26, 2013: Professor Wendy Parmet: Law360: “BigLaw Attys Praise High Court’s Gay Marriage Rulings”
- June 26, 2013: Professor Aziza Ahmed: Huffington Post: “USAID v. AOSI: A Victory for Sex Workers and Feminist Allies”
- June 21, 2013: Professor Leo Beletsky: Huffington Post: “Beyond the Anti-Prostitution Pledge: The Public Health Buck Does Not Stop Here”
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- May 24, 2012: Law Faculty Awarded Four Interdisciplnary Research Grants
To celebrate its inaugural year, the Northeastern University Program on Health Policy and Law awarded $20,000 in grants to four interdisciplinary research projects on health policy and law. - January 5, 2012: In a case filed by Health Law Advocates and argued by Professor Wendy Parmet, the Sumpreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that a state law blocking legal immigrants’ access to the Commonwealth Care health insurance program violated the Massachusetts constitution. Find out more through the national media coverage.
- May 24, 2012: Law Faculty Awarded Four Interdisciplnary Research Grants