Professor Leo Beletsky tells the National Geographic that campaigns to get nonviolent drug offenders released during the pandemic may not be sufficient. “Prisoner re-entry into regular society is difficult and dangerous from a health perspective, even during normal times,” he says.
Unless timely action is taken, South Africa could be faced with a new form of “pharmaceutical apartheid,” like that experienced in the early days of the AIDS response, when access to medicines here was blocked by decisions made by rich countries and pharmaceutical companies in the Global North, writes Professor Brook Baker in a co-authored op-ed for Spotlight.
There are a few, still weak, glimmers of hope regarding the nation’s response to dangers created by our immigration policies, writes Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, in her latest blog for Health Affairs. "If we are to learn the lessons of this moment, these small glimmers must give rise to a new approach to protecting the health of immigrants.
Chase Strangio ’10 and Carmelyn Malalis ’01, both 2020 Stonewall Awardees and nationally recognized LGBT legal activists, share their journeys and hopes for the future.
Listen back: On WGBH's Morning Edition, Professor Daniel Medwed outlines some of the federal and state laws in place that are meant to protect residents in assisted living facilities and nursing homes, and the complicated process of bringing claims of carelessness and neglect.
“As the memory of epidemics faded, individual rights became much more important than collective responsibility,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The New York Times.
Professor Wendy Parmet joined WBUR's Morning Edition to discuss how our attitudes are shaping the response to the pandemic: “Three of the top threats to public health amidst the current global crisis are hubris, isolationism and distrust.”
Watch now: Joan Fortin ’96, Chief Executive Officer of Bernstein Shur, is featured on The Portland Press Herald’s Like a Boss webinar series and shares her tips managing, adapting and problem solving amid the COVID-19 crisis.
The show must go on! Portland lawyer Alison “Tex” Clark ’98 has been pre-recording her weekly community radio show with XRAY.FM from home since the emergence of COVID-19.
“The federal public health power is pretty awesome … awe-inspiring in its breadth,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells Politico. “But there’s also obviously a lot of danger.”