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Recent Press and Announcements:
- 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?”
Newsletter Archive
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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