“We need to understand that doing nothing isn’t working either, that this is a very complicated but very distorted marketplace and that the lack of intervention by the government is not working,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Huntington News. “I think it will be in the interest of the drug companies, actually, not only the patients, to negotiate in good faith and come up with something that can work for everybody.”
In his latest contribution to the Health GAP blog, Professor Brook Baker provides an analysis of the Global Fund’s target for its upcoming replenishment cycle.
Listen back: Professor Margaret Burnham, founder and director of NUSL’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), is interviewed on NU Library’s What’s New Podcast.
It strikes me that the high-profile and incendiary nature of the case makes it virtually impossible to have a fair trial in or near Barron,” Professor Daniel Medwed tells USA Today.
On Friday, January 25, the Northeastern community gathered to pay homage to the life and values of Dr. King through the power of film, music and conversation. The event featured the premier of Murder in Mobile, an inspiring short documentary which highlights the work of NUSL's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Clinic (CRRJ). The film tells the story of how Chelsea Schmitz '13 unearthed the case of Rayfield Davis, a black man who was murdered in 1948 in Mobile, Alabama, by a white man who was never prosecuted.
“Fatal overdoses result in part because people use in isolation and because witnesses are reluctant to call 911,” Professor Leo Beletsky tells The Appeal. “This is why public health efforts like naloxone distribution and Good Samaritan laws try to remove barriers to life-saving interventions.”
Listen back: On the Workers Comp Matters podcast, Professor Emily Spieler dismisses hype that Covid-19 will crush workers’ comp systems.
To mark #HumanRightsDay, Northeastern Law's Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) has released a new publication, “Disconnected: How Household Water Shutoffs in the United States During the COVID Pandemic Violate the Human Right to Water.”
Only when CDC guidance on COVID-19 fully takes the social determinants of health into account will it begin to make a dent in our ability to control the pandemic, writes Professor Aziza Ahmed in a piece for the Petrie Flom Center's Bill of Health Blog.
Betty Francisco '98, general counsel at Compass Working Capital and co-founder of Amplify Latinx, is profiled by Northeastern News.