2021 Annual Health Law Conference

HEALTH AND THE BODY POLITIC: UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY, UNDERMINING HEALTH

Health law scholars have been energetically engaged in identifying and responding to the myriad challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. Equity, access, mental health, availability of resources, vaccine development and rationing, and related issues of public health and private rights have come to the fore as matters of critical concern. In addition, and related to these issues, is the critical question of democratic governance. Inextricably interrelated to the current public health crisis, the crisis of governance presents a host of issues to be examined. Join us for this dynamic conference featuring leading academics, policy-makers and advocates.

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Questions? Please contact Jennifer Huer at j.huer@northeastern.edu

2021 Health Law Conference Paper Workshop Program
Friday, April 16, 2021
1:30 PM	Welcome Wendy E. Parmet Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law Faculty Director, Center for Health Policy and Law, Northeastern University School of Law Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
1:40 - 3:30 PM	Workshop Paper Presentations In collaboration with the Northeastern University Law Review (NULR), we issued a Call for Papers for this workshop. Selected authors will present their papers during the workshop and commentators will offer feedback during the session.
	Post-Truth Won’t Set us Free: Health Law, Patient Autonomy and the Rise of the Infodemic Authors Wendy E. Parmet Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law Faculty Director, Center for Health Policy and Law, Northeastern University School of Law Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs Jeremy Paul Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law Commentator Leslie Francis Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Law, The University of Utah
	Activismitis Author Courtney Anderson Associate Prof. of Law, Georgia State University College of Law
	Tribal Consultation and Health Policy Author Aila Hoss Assistant Profess of Law, University of Tulsa College of Law Commentator Dr. Mary Owen Director, Center of American Indian and Minority Health, University of Minnesota Medical School
	Second-Class Health in the Absence of Democracy Authors Paola Sepúlveda-Miranda Clinical Data and Quality Management, Massachusetts Dept. of Mental Health; Director, Didasko Project; Research Associate in Psychology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Sonja M. Fernández-Quiñones Systems Change Advocate, Sexual Violence Center; Social Media Manager, Didasko Project
3:30 - 3:45 PM	Break
3:45 - 5:00 PM	Panel Discussion: The Fascist Threat to Health Hosted in collaboration with the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) Moderator Alfredo Morabia Editor-in-Chief, AJPH Panelists Mary Travis Bassett Director, FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard University; FXB Professor of Health and Human Rights, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Ruth Ben-Ghiat Professor of History and Italian Studies, New York University Sir Richard Evans Regius Professor Emeritus of History, University of Cambridge Paul Weindling Wellcome Trust Research Professor in History of Medicine, Oxford Brookes University
5:00 PM	Closing Remarks

This event is hosted in collaboration with The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH)
– A publication of the American Public Health Association.

2021 Annual Health Law Conference

HEALTH AND THE BODY POLITIC: UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY, UNDERMINING HEALTH

2021 Health Law Conference Paper Workshop Program

2021 Health Law Conference
Paper Workshop Program