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 Margaret Burnham, director of Northeastern Law's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project, is interviewed by the ABA Journal about her work on the front lines of civil rights and social justice.
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.
Betty Francisco '98, general counsel at Compass Working Capital, Mass. AG Maura Healey ’98 and Suffolk County DA Rachael Rollins ’97 has been recognized among the “Power 50 for 2020: Extraordinary Year, Extraordinary People” list by the Boston Business Journal.