Professor Brook Baker Speaks Out at Coronavirus Vaccine Day of Action
Watch: Professor Brook Baker '76 was interviewed by Boston 25 News on scene yesterday at the Cambridge Moderna demonstration calling for global vaccine equity.
Watch: Professor Brook Baker '76 was interviewed by Boston 25 News on scene yesterday at the Cambridge Moderna demonstration calling for global vaccine equity.
If there’s not a lot of transparency and trust in the system, in its fairness and equity, then there are always going to be some people to game the system, creating a vicious cycle of inequity, Professor Wendy Parmet tells Axios.
Listen back: Professor Brook Baker '76, senior policy analyst for Health GAP, talks to NPR’s Here & Now about the news that Johnson & Johnson will work with rival Merck to ramp up production of its one-shot COVID-19 vaccine.
“People do need to hear some good news, but it can be dangerous to send the message that things are OK. We don’t want everybody to think ‘we got this,’ because we don’t,” Parmet said. “If this is a leap too far too fast, we won’t know that for a while.”
There’s no grand idea that will end poverty,” says Betty Francisco '98, general counsel of Compass Working Capital and a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Community Development Advisory Council. “But rather a collection of ideas, solutions and players in ecosystems that work cohesively and collaboratively around achieving racial equity outcomes. That’s how we can begin breaking the cycle of poverty.”
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Listen back: Professor Daniel Medwed joined GBH's Morning Edition to talk about a new bill that would decriminalize drug possession and use in Massachusetts.
Professor Brook Baker tells Al Jazeera that inoculating the population of a single country will not protect them if it means that the virus continues to spread elsewhere unchecked: “You’re not protecting your citizens; you’re giving your citizens an illusion that you’re protecting them.”
Communities of color are disproportionately subsidizing an energy system that is killing them, writes Professor Shalanda Baker in an op-ed for WBUR's Cognoscenti.
As Massachusetts loosens COVID-19 restrictions, Professor Daniel Medwed joins GBH Morning Edition host Joe Mathieu to talk about the measures that are in place to keep everyone in the courtroom safe during in-person jury trials and how those measures could impact trials.