"We've been sold a bill of goods that somehow if we prioritize ourselves, we'll be safe," Professor Brook Baker '76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP (Global Access Project), tells CBS News. "It's in fact not true. We have to prioritize everyone, everywhere and not let intellectual property stand in the way of achieving that."
“It’s not a question of being tough on crime or soft on crime, it’s about being fair on crime,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells News 5 Cleveland.
The Honorable William "Mo" Cowan ’94, Betty Francisco '98, Mass. AG Maura Healey ’98, Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins ’97 and James Morton ’81 have been named to Boston Magazine's 2021 Most Influential People in Boston list.
Professor Libby Adler tells The New York Times that Title IX could be open to interpretation on the issue of transgender athletes and other classes not explicitly defined in the language: “It’s that elasticity or indeterminacy that makes it unlikely to be struck down, but much more likely to be interpreted in ways that are consistent with the politics of the judges we have.”
“Big Pharma’s unwillingness to acknowledge that the existing IP regime did not just enable innovation — it also produced artificially restricted supplies, price profiteering, and grossly inequitable distribution first of vaccines and tests and now of Covid medicines as well,” Professor Brook Baker ’76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells STAT.
Eli Lilly’s manufacturing agreement aimed at boosting insulin access in Africa is “largely a symbolic drop in the bucket,” Professor Brook Baker, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, tells STAT.
“When I'm feeling stressed about something it makes me feel calm when I take an inventory of the things that I own and I can see it in my head,” says Kathy Tu ’13, co-host of a WYNC podcast called the 10 Things That Scare Me.
In their latest co-authored op-ed, Professors Woodrow Hartzog and Evan Selinger argue that facial recognition is perfectly tailored to serve the worst impulses of humanity during a time of deep vulnerability: "The thing is, we already know enough to conclude that face recognition technology shouldn't be used to fight COVID-19."
“Non-citizens make up a very significant proportion of the workforce in healthcare, and particularly in places like nursing homes, where patients are especially vulnerable,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells Mother Jones. “If we want to protect those patients, it’s really important that the people who are caring for them, many of whom are immigrants… are comfortable with getting health care, getting tested. Otherwise, there’s potential for exasperating the outbreak.”