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September 8, 2023: Wendy Parmet, PolitiFact, “COVID-19 Lockdowns Returning? Here’s Why Public Health Experts Say That’s Unlikely.”
September 7, 2023: Brook Baker, Peoples Dispatch, “Health Activists Reveal Big Pharma’s COVID-19 Vaccine Heist in South Africa.”
September 7, 2023: Brook Baker, devex, “Big Pharma ‘Bullying’ Exposed in South African COVID-19 Contracts.”
September 5, 2023: Brook Baker, Daily Maverick: “Covid-19 Contracts Reveal That Big Pharma ‘Bullied’ SA While Securing Vaccines Worth $734m – NGO.”
August 17, 2023: Brook Baker, STAT, “iiV Healthcare and Doctors Without Borders Tussle Over Contract Terms for an HIV Drug.”.
June 13, 2023: Leo Beletsky, STAT, “‘The Drug Bust Paradox’: Study Shows Opioid Deaths Double After Police Action.”
July 13, 2023: Wendy Parmet, Northeastern Global News, “Will the Courts Take Away the Fda-Approved Over-The-Counter Birth Control Pill?.”
July 11, 2023: Leo Beletksy, CommonWealth Magazine, “When Drug Busts Lead to More Overdoses We’re on the Wrong Path.”
July 6, 2023: Wendy Parmet, Bloomberg Law, “Covid’s Remote Work Experience Is Slowly Changing Disability Law.”
June 29, 2023: Wendy Parmet, Northeastern Global News“The Verdict Is In: Northeastern Program Helps Judges Better Understand the Forces That Affect People’s Health.”
June 13, 2023: Leo Beletsky, STAT, “‘The Drug Bust Paradox’: Study Shows Opioid Deaths Double After Police Action.”
June 1, 2023: Wendy Parmet, “In Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts, and Public Health, Professor Wendy E. Parmet Argues Reform is Critical Before the Next Pandemic Strikes,” Northeastern Law News Announcement (June 1, 2023).
May 24, 2023: Brook Baker, Boston University Global Development Policy (GDP) Center Blog, “A Way Forward for Equitable Pharmaceutical Access After COVID-19.”
May 24, 2023: Leo Beletsky, VICE, “A Teen Girl Is Facing Murder Charges After Two Of Her Classmates Died of Overdoses.”
May 21, 2023: Leo Beletsky, 24/7 Wall Street, “25 American Cities Where Police Are Funded Better Than Health and Social Services.”
May 19, 2023: Brook Baker, Geneva Health Files, “Medical Countermeasures Platform will be Pitched to Countries Next Week. Inadequate Consultations, Squeamish about IP, Activists Say.”
May 18, 2023: Brook Baker, The Jakarta Post, “Indonesia Should Reject New IP Monopoly Protections for Medicines.”
May 5, 2023: Brook Baker, Geneva Health Files, “Fear-Mongering on Threatened Incentives to Innovation Dominate US-ITC Hearings, Activists Pick Apart Narratives.”
May 1, 2023: Leo Beletsky, Newswise, “Expert Calls for Reforms to Address the Overdose Crisis.” Newswise.
April 22, 2023: Wendy Parmet, Bloomberg Law, “Supreme Court’s Abortion Pill Call Leaves FDA in Line of Fire.”
April 21, 2023: Leo Beletsky, NBC Boston, “Billerica Officer Hospitalized After Fentanyl Exposure – But Experts Say It Probably Wasn't an Overdose.”
April 20, 2023: Leo Beletsky, The Globe and Mail “Experts Weigh in on Alberta Considering Involuntary Treatment.”
April 15, 2023: Leo Beletsky, Los Angeles Times, “Don’t Curb Opioid Prescriptions Through Telemedicine. They’re Saving Lives.”
April 14, 2023: Wendy Parmet, Bloomberg Law “Abortion Pill Order Threatens FDA’s Power Over Drug Safety.”
April 10, 2023: Wendy Parmet, Northeastern Global News, “Should Biden Ignore a Texas Judge’s Ruling on the Abortion Pill?.”
April 9, 2023: Wendy Parmet, Politico, “COVID Battle Lines Moving From Emergency Room to Courtroom.”
March 31, 2023: Brook Baker, STAT, “European Union Drug Pricing Proposal for the Pandemic Treaty Generates Pushback.”
March 31, 2023: Wendy Parmet, Bloomberg Law, “Obamacare Court Decision Hits Hardest for Low-Income Americans.”
March 13, 2023: Wendy Parmet, Bloomberg Law, “Abortion Pill Court Docket Delay Concerns Legal Advocates.”
March 12, 2023: Wendy Parmet, The New York Times, “What if the Next Pandemic Happened Tomorrow?.”
March 8, 2023: Wendy Parmet, The Washington Post, “COVID Backlash Hobbles Public Health and Future Pandemic Response,”
March 8, 2023: Wendy Parmet, The Washington Post, “Conservative COVID Backlash Handcuffs Public Health, Pandemic."
March 8, 2023: Wendy Parmet, The Washington Post, “How Public Health Officials Got Figuratively Handcuffed.”
March 2, 2023: Brook Baker, Bloomberg Law, “Abortion Pill, Vaccine Attacks Spell Trouble for FDA Approvals.”
March 1, 2023: Wendy Parmet, Politico, “Desantis Is Championing Medical Freedom. GOP State Lawmakers Like What They See.”
February 24, 2023: Leo Beletsky, Chicago Sun Times, “Chicago Is Seeing an Increase in Fatal Meth Overdoses. Here’s Why.”
February 22, 2023: Leo Beletsky, The New York Times, “One Year Inside a Radical New Approach to America's Overdose Crisis.”
February 15, 2023: Leo Beletsky, Los Angeles Times, “Mexico, U.S. Officials Call for Action After Investigation Into Counterfeit Medicine.”
February 13, 2023: “Reclaiming Salus Populi,” Petrie Flom Blog (February 13, 2023).
February 7, 2023: Brook Baker, STAT, “Angry at Vertex Pricing of Cystic Fibrosis Drugs, Families in Four Countries Seek To Override Patents.”
January 17, 2023: Brook Baker, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, “Gates Foundation to Increase Funding to $8.3 Billion This Year.”
January 5, 2023: Brook Baker, STAT, “The Pandemic Exposed Global Gaps in Access to Medicines. Can a Contentious Approach to Close Them Gain Traction?."
January 24, 2023: “Biden Toughens Abortion Rights Support, but Access Falls Short,” Bloomberg Law (January 24, 2023).
December 26, 2022: Brook Baker, Times Special, “Amid Rising Covid Fears, Wait For Patent Waiver On Meds Continues.”
December 14, 2022: Jonathan Kahn, Undark, “Q&A: Jonathan Kahn on New Frontiers in Racial Profiling.”
November 25, 2022: Brook Baker, Geneva Health Files, “What Weak Governance Means for Digital Health: A View from the Field; No Consensus yet on COVID Meds & Tests at the WTO.”
November 23, 2022: Wendy Parmet, Bloomberg Law, “Abortion Pill Opponents Seize New Chance to Target FDA Approval.”
November 22, 2022: Leo Beletsky, The Boston Globe, “A Year On, Mass. And Cass Continues To Test the Mettle of Mayor Michelle Wu.”
November 14, 2022: Wendy Parmet, Bloomberg Law, “Biden Extends Covid Public Health Emergency While States Move On,”
November 4, 2022: Brook Baker, InfoJustice, “Switzerland and Mexico’s Communication to the TRIPS Council Is Replete with Disinformation and Their Questions Easily Answered.”
November 3, 2022: Leo Beletsky, NPR, “CDC Issues New Opioid Prescribing Guidance, Giving Doctors More Leeway to Treat Pain.”
October 26, 2022: Leo Beletsky, Wired, “America’s Adderall Shortage Could Kill People.”
October 25, 2022: Leo Beletsky, WBUR, “Boston Officials Visit Jail as They Seek Options to House People at ‘Mass. And Cass'.”
October 24, 2022: Wendy Parmet, Northeastern Law News Announcement, “Professor Wendy Parmet to Receive APHA Law Section’s Lifetime Achievement Award.”
October 21, 2022: Leo Beletsky, Associated Press, “Experts: George Floyd Died From Knee to Neck, Not Drug Overdose.”
October 14, 2022: Leo Beletsky, Grid News, “The Halloween ‘Rainbow Fentanyl’ Scare Is Mostly a Get Out the Vote Effort by Politicians.”
October 14, 2022: Leo Beletsky, News@Northeastern, “Children Not Target of ‘Rainbow Fentanyl,’ Experts Say. And Adding Color May Actually Protect Drug Users.”
October 4, 2022: Wendy Parmet, News@Northeastern, “Will We Be Able to Count Abortions After the Dobbs Decision?”
September 29, 2022: Leo Beletsky, Harvard Public Health, “Towns Are Going After Syringe Services. The A.D.A. May Be Their Best Defense,” (September 29, 2022).
September 8, 2022: Brook Baker, Bloomberg Law, “Biden’s Omicron Booster Campaign Faces Fatigue, Efficacy Doubts.”
August 17, 2022: Mehreen Butt, Northeastern Law News Announcement, “Mehreen Butt Joins Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law as Managing Director.”
August 14, 2022: Wendy Parmet, The Washington Post, “Most Abortions Are Done at Home. Antiabortion Groups Are Taking Aim.”
August 2, 2022: Leo Beletsky, USA Today, “Drug-induced Homicide Should Not Result in Prison Time for Those Who Call For Help.”
July 22, 2022: Wendy Parmet, Bloomberg Law, “Georgia’s Heartbeat Abortion Ban Tests FDA Limits on Pill Access.”
July 19, 2022: Brook Baker, STAT, “Pharma and Patient Advocates Offer Competing Visions for Achieving Vaccine Equity During Pandemics.”
July 6, 2022: Wendy Parmet, News@Northeastern, “Whose God Wins?’ Florida Lawsuit Exposes Supreme Court’s Religious Hypocrisy, Northeastern Professors Say.”
July 5, 2022: Leo Beletsky, The Texas Tribune, “With National Data on Drug Overdoses Lacking, University of Texas Project Looks To Help Provide a Solution.”
July 1, 2022: Wendy Parmet, STAT News, “‘A Slippery Slope’: Pfizer Sells a Contraceptive and Donated To Political Groups That Could Come After the Company.”
June 20, 2022: Brook Baker, PIJIP Blog “TRIPS-Compliant Alternatives for Overcoming Intellectual Property Barriers to COVID-19 Countermeasures.”
June 25, 2022: Wendy Parmet , The Washington Post, “Chasm Opens Between States Over Abortion Pills and Out-of-State Care.”
June 24, 2022: Wendy Parmet, NBC News, “Garland Signals Brewing Battle With GOP-Led States Over Access to Abortion Pills.”
June 23, 2022: Brook Baker, In These Times, “The Spectacular Failure of the WTO To Fight Covid.”
June 11, 2022: Leo Beletsky, USA Today, “As Biden Administration Fights Opioid Overdoses, Harm Reduction Groups Face Opposition.”
May 26, 2022: Wendy Parmet, Bloomberg Law, “Abortion Pill Lawsuit Offers Guide to Challenging State Limits.”
May 25, 2022: Northeastern Law News Announcement, “Salus Populi Judicial Education Program Expands with Additional Funding.”
May 24, 2022: Leo Beletsky, ABC7 Chicago, “More Collar Counties Charge Dealers With Drug-induced Homicide for Drug Overdose Deaths.”
May 20, 2022: Wendy Parmet, STAT News, “Vague ‘Medical Emergency’ Exceptions in Abortion Laws Leave Pregnant People in Danger, Doctors Say.”
May 16, 2022: Brook Baker, The New York Times, “As Poor Nations Seek Covid Pills, Officials Fear Repeat of AIDS Crisis.”
May 13, 2022: Wendy Parmet, The Washington Post “Abortion Foes Push to Narrow ‘Life of Mother’ Exceptions.”
May 13, 2022: Wendy Parmet, NCB News, “Getting Abortion Pills by Mail Is Already More Complicated Than It Might Seem.”
May 12, 2022: Claudia Haupt, News@Northeastern, “Should the Public Be Allowed to Protest Outside of Supreme Court Justices’s Homes?”
May 12, 2022: Wendy Parmet, Bloomberg Law, “Who Should Decide the Nation’s Pandemic Response?”
May 11, 2022: Leo Beletsky, The Boston Globe, “‘It’s Not Working Fast Enough.’ Heartbreak, Drugs, and Crime Persist at Mass. And Cass, Leaving Neighbors Asking, ‘What’s Next?’.”
May 10, 2022: Wendy Parmet, Politico, “‘It’s a Tsunami’: Legal Challenges Threatening Public Health Policy.”
May, 6, 2022: Wendy Parmet, News@Northeastern, “Post-Roe, Could States Outlaw Abortion Pills?”
May 5, 2022: Wendy Parmet, News@Northeastern, “Are We Out of the Pandemic Phase of COVID-19?”
May 3, 2022: Wendy Parmet, The Guardian, “Contraception Could Come Under Fire Next if Roe v Wade Is Overturned.”
April 29, 2022: Brook Baker, News@Northeastern, “Paxlovid’s Slow, Targeted Rollout Leaves Vulnerable Populations at Risk.”
April 26, 2022: Brook Baker, Geneva Health Files, “Pfizer Allegedly Pressured UNICEF to Keep Secret, Pricing for Anti-Viral Treatment Paxlovid. UNICEF Yielded,”
April 20, 2022: Wendy Parmet, The Financial Times, “Covid Travel Mask Ruling Threatens to Tie CDC’s Hands on Future Pandemics.”
April 20, 2022: Brook Baker, National Journal, “Congressional Delays Could Undermine COVID-19 Global Fight.”
April 14, 2022: Leo Beletsky, Inquest, “Drug-Induced Panic.”
April 11, 2022: Brook Baker, Bloomberg Law, “Covid Booster Costs Spur Calls to Shift From Free Jabs for All.”
April 11, 2022: Brook Baker, The Organization for World Peace, “Possible Compromise Reached On Potential TRIPS Waiver For COVID Vaccines.”
April 6, 2022: Brook Baker, Health Affairs, “How President Biden Can Expand Global COVID-19 Test-To-Treat.”
April 5, 2022: Leo Beletsky, VICE, “Black Man Sentenced to 124 Years for Selling Fentanyl That Led to Overdose.”
April 3, 2022: Brook Baker, LA Times, “While We Line Up for a Fourth Shot, the World’s Poor Haven’t Gotten Their First.”
April 4, 2022: Brook Baker, Nature, “African Clinical Trial Denied Access to Key COVID Drug Paxlovid.”
March 25, 2022: Brook Baker, Salon, “Rich Countries are Getting the New COVID Vaccine First.”
March 24, 2022: Brook Baker, The Print, “US, EU Draft To Amend India’s Trips Waiver Proposal Shows West Hypocrisy at Its Best.”
March 22, 2022: Brook Baker, STAT, “Pfizer Inks Deal With UNICEF to Supply COVID Pill to Poor Countries, but Advocates Say It Isn’t Enough.”
March 17, 2022: Leo Beletsky, The Boston Globe, “HIV Outbreak Among Drug Users Accelerates in Boston.”
March 16, 2022: Brook Baker, In These Times, “New "Compromise" on an IP Waiver for Covid Vaccines Is Worse Than No Deal, Activists Say.”
March 16, 2022: Brook Baker, Health GAP, “The Quad TRIPS Waiver Text is not a Compromise; It is an Abomination.”
March 15, 2022: Brook Baker, STAT, “A Compromise Is Reached on an Intellectual Property Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines, but Does It Go Far Enough?”
March 14, 2022: Wendy Parmet, The Daily Free Press, “Plaintiffs Seek $6 Million Each From City of Boston After Alleged Damages Caused by Indoor Vaccine Mandate.”
March 1, 2022: Wendy Parmet, Scientific American, “COVID Revealed the Fragility of American Public Health.”
February 10, 2022: Leo Beletsky, The Daily Beast, “White House Caves to Fox News Obsession Over Biden ‘Crack Pipe’ Faux-Scandal.”
February 9, 2022: Leo Beletsky, WAGM-TV, “Feds Say No Taxpayer Money for Safer Drug-smoking Pipes.”
February 9, 2022: Leo Beletsky, Associated Press, “No Money for Drug Pipes: Feds Douse Social Media Firestorm.”
February 6, 2022: Leo Beletsky, Gothamist, “Prosecutors Are Going After Michael K. Williams’ Alleged Dealer Using An Increasingly Common — And Controversial — Charge.”
February 3, 2022: Brook Baker, STAT News, “Such a Deal! Covid-19 Therapies Appear Cost-Effective … For Now.”
February 3, 2022: Brook Baker, Associated Press, “COVID Inequity: In Africa, At-home Tests Are Scarce, Costly.”
February 2, 2022: Leo Beletsky, The American Journal of Psychiatry, Letter to the Editor: “Surging Racial Disparities in the U.S. Overdose Crisis,” (co-author).
January 24, 2022: Brook Baker, PLOS Blog, “COVID Testing Equity: A Reflection Based on 1.5 Years in the ACT-Accelerator.”
January 16, 2022: Leo Beletsky, CommonWealth, “Misinformation is Fueling the Overdose Crisis.”
December 15, 2021: Leo Beletsky, VICE, “San Francisco’s New Answer for Its Drug Problem: More Cops.”
December 14, 2021: Leo Beletsky, Kaiser Health News, “With Overdose Deaths Surging, Advocates on the Ground Push for Over-the-Counter Naloxone.”
December 7, 2021: Leo Beletsky, Politico, “Biden’s Big Decision on the Opioid Crisis.”
December 2, 2021: Leo Beletsky, WHYY Public Media, “Time for Safehouse to Ask Forgiveness, Not Permission, on Philly Supervised Injection Site, Experts Say.”
November 17, 2021: Leo Beletsky, The Guardian, “US Saw 100,000 Drug Overdose Deaths in One Year Amid Pandemic, CDC Says.”
November 6, 2021: Leo Beletsky, The Boston Globe, “Mass. and Cass Cleanup has Mixed Success, as Special Court Faces Renewed Criticism.”
October 31, 2021: Wendy Parmet, The York Times, “A Dangerous Legal Battle Over Vaccine Mandates Will Continue,” The New York Times.
October 10, 2021: Northeastern Law News Announcement, “Professor Jonathan Kahn Receives National Library of Medicine Grant.”
October 29, 2021: Leo Beletsky, NBC Boston, “Boston Notifies Mass. and Cass Residents Tents Will Be Removed Monday Morning.”
October 19, 2021: Leo Beletsky, The Guardian, “Price for Drug that Reverses Opioid Overdoses Soars Amid Record Deaths.”
September 1, 2021: Wendy Parmet, The Atlantic, “We’ve Entered a New Era in the Legal Battles of COVID-19.”
August 12, 2021: Wendy Parmet, PolitiFact, “Could Joe Biden Challenge Florida, Texas on Mask Policies? Probably Not.”
August 11, 2021: Wendy Parmet, Bloomberg Law, “Covid Breakthrough Cases Pose Test for Vaccine Messaging Efforts.”
August 10, 2021: Brook Baker, CBS News, “Experts Question Video of Deputy Who Purportedly “Almost Died” From Substance Said To Be Fentanyl.”
August 7, 2021: Leo Beletsky, The New York Times, “Video of Officer’s Collapse After Handling Powder Draws Skepticism.”
August 4, 2021: Wendy Parmet, Forbes, “House Democrats Push For Vaccine-Or-Test Mandate For Members And Staff.”
August 2, 2021: Wendy Parmet, CNN, “Is It legal to Mandate Covid Vaccines? In Many Circumstances, Yes.”
August 2021: Wendy Parmet, National Journal, “FDA Approval Could Unleash More Vaccine Mandates.”
July 29, 2021: Faith Khalik and Mahathi Vemireddy ’22, Petrie Flom Blog, ”Eviction Moratorium Cases Reveal Courts’ Misunderstanding of Public Health.”
July 29, 2021: Brook Baker, Waging Non Violence, ”Global Health Activists Say It’s Time We Ask Big Pharma to Make a Sacrifice.”
July 28, 2021: Brook Baker, Al Jazeera, ”Who Owns the Rights to COVID Vaccines?.”
July 25, 2021: Wendy Parmet, The Washington Post, ”As Coronavirus Surges, GOP Lawmakers are Moving to Limit Public Health Powers.”
July 23, 2021: Brook Baker, ”WTO-Who Dialogue Hears Call To Treat “Patents & Profits” as Second Priority Due to COVID-19.”
July 23, 2021: Brook Baker, Geneva Health Files, ”The Mechanics of the Tech Transfer Narrative during COVID-19.”
July 22, 2021 :Wendy Parmet, STAT News, ”Public Health Officials Have Tools To Beat Back COVID Again. Does Anyone Want To Use Them?.”
July 2021: Wendy Parmet, The Week in Health Law Podcast, ”State Efforts to Restrict Public Health Powers.”
July 14, 2021: Brook Baker, ”Webinar Panel – COVID-19 Vaccine for the Few: How to Ensure the Right to Health for All, Raoul Wallenberg Center.”
July 21, 2021: Brook Baker, STAT News, ”Pfizer Looks To Widen Access to COVID-19 Vaccine in Africa, but Advocates Say It Doesn’t Go Far Enough.”
July 15, 2021: Leo Beletsky, NPR,”Overdose Deaths In State Prisons Have Jumped Dramatically Since 2001.”
July 7, 2021: Leo Beletsky, AlterNet, “A Federal Court Rethinks the Practice of Punishing Drug Use As Murder.”
June 29, 2021: Brook Baker, ”Civil Society Letter to USTR Tai on Scope of TRIPS Waiver.”
June 8, 2021: Brook Baker, The New York Times, “A U.N. Declaration on Ending AIDS Should Have Been Easy. It Wasn’t.”
Brook Baker, Health Policy Watch, “Is European Union on Collision Course With European Parliament on COVID IP Waiver?”
June 6, 2021: Brook Baker, “The Impracticality of Relying on Compulsory Licenses to Expand Production Capacity for COVID-19 Vaccines.”
June 4, 2021: Brook Baker, STAT News, “EU pushes rival plan to Covid-19 vaccine IP waiver, but some deride it as ‘meaningless.’”
May 24, 2021: Brook Baker, News@Northeastern. “Have Covid-19 Deaths Been Undercounted? New Reports Say ‘Yes’ and Here’s Why It Matters.”
May 14, 2021: Wendy Parmet, News@Northeastern, “What do the New CDC Mask Guidelines Mean?.”
May 13, 2021: Wendy Parmet, Boston 25News, “‘The CDC Guidance is not Law’: Legal Expert Weighs in on Future of Mask Mandates in Private Spaces.”
May 13, 2021: Wendy Parmet, National Journal, “Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines in Schools a Political Gamble for States.”
May 11, 2021: Brook Baker, IOL, “Experts Weigh in on Covid-19 Intellectual Property Rights Waiver.”
May 7, 2021: Brook Baker, “Experts Weigh in on Covid-19 Intellectual Property Rights Waiver.”
May 5, 2021: Brook Baker, CBS News, “Calls for Drug Companies to Share Vaccine Formulas Grow as Global COVID Crisis Worsens.”
May, 2021: Brook Baker, People's Vaccine Policy Brief, “Third-Way Proposals from Big Pharma and the WTO are the Same-Old Way – Commercial Control of Supply, Price, and Distribution.”
April 24, 2021: Brook Baker, Common Dreams, “'Utterly Disgusting': Big Pharma Lobby Blitz Against Vaccine Patent Waivers Denounced.”
April 23, 2021: Brook Baker, Newsweek, “Amid Worldwide COVID Vaccine Shortages, Some Vets Are Injecting People with Dog Meds.”
April 21, 2021: Leo Beletsky, Houston Chronicle, “Fentanyl Seizures Rise in Houston.”
April 19, 2021: Wendy Parmet, “A Year Into Covid, States Debate Public Health Shutdown Powers.”
April 16, 2021: Wendy Parmet, News@Northeastern, “Here’s Why It’s Important to Call the Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Review Phase a ‘Pause.’”
April 13, 2021: Brook Baker, KOB 4, “India Reels Amid Virus Surge, Affecting World Vaccine Supply.”
April 12, 2021: Brook Baker, The New Republic, “How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines.”
April 12, 2021: Wendy Parmet, The Washington Post, “Conservative Courts Say They Can’t Set Health Policy — And Then They Do It Anyway.”
April 10, 2021: Brook Baker, Associated Press, “Stalled At First Jab: Vaccine Shortages Hit Poor Countries.”
April 2, 2021: Leo Beletsky, Houston Chronicle, “Fentanyl Seizures Rise in Houston.”
March 8, 2021: Leo Beletsky, The Davis Vanguard, “Guest Commentary: Why It’s Time to Abandon Drug Courts.”
March 5, 2021: Leo Beletsky, The Crime Report, “Why It’s Time to Abandon Drug Courts.”
February 4, 2021: Wendy Parmet, The Atlantic, “Employers’ Vaccine Mandates Are Representative of America’s Failed Approach to Public Health.”
February 3, 2021: Brook Baker, The New Republic, “Biden is Missing an Obvious Solution to Speed Up Vaccine Production.”
January 30, 2021: Wendy Parmet, The Wall Street Journal, “CDC to Require Masks on All Forms of Public Transportation.”
January 24, 2021: Margo Lindauer, The San Diego Union-Tribune, “Domestic Violence via Technology on the Rise During Pandemic.”
January 20, 2021: Leo Beletsky, CommonWealth, “Forced Addiction Treatment Could be Death Sentence During COVID-19.”
January 15, 2021: Leo Beletsky, STAT, “In LA, Ambulances Circle for Hours and ICUS are Full. Is This What COVID-19 Has in Store for the Rest of the Country?”
January 13, 2021: Aziza Ahmed, Ms. Magazine, “The Fight for Our Rights: Women, Mass Incarceration, and Criminal Justice.”
January 11, 2021: Brook Baker, DownToEarth, “Dummy’s Guide to How Trade Rules Affect Access to COVID-19 Vaccines.”
January 11, 2021: Claudia Haupt, News@Northeastern, “Twitter and Facebook Have the Right to Ban Trump’s Accounts. But That Won’t Stop the Violent Rhetoric”
January 5, 2021: Leo Beletsky, The Philadelphia Inquirer, “CDC Records Highest-Ever Drug Deaths in a 12-Month Period.”
January 2, 2021: Margo Lindauer, Tennessean, “Domestic Violence, Gun Sales Are on the Rise. Does a Louisiana Parish Have a Solution?”

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- December 18, 2021: Leo Beletsky, Health Affairs, “Purdue’s Demise Could Be a New Beginning for the Pharmaceutical Industry”
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- December 15, 2020: Aziza Ahmed and Wendy Parmet, Northeastern News, “Here’s Why We Need a PSA for the COVID-19 Vaccine.”
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- December 1, 2020: Margo Lindauer, The Takeaway, “Domestic Violence Victims in the U.S. Are Lacking Resources During Pandemic.”
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- November 18, 2020: Margo Lindauer, GHB, “GBH News Legal Analyst on NEW SJC Pick.”
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- 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?”
- 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."
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, 1^st 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"
- 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 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"
- 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"
- 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”
- 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.

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