Community-wide responses will help to ensure "affordable water for all," says Martha Davis, newly named University Distinguished Professor.

Although we can expect some pricing moderation by industry in response to the COVID-19 pandemic as it seeks to refurbish its tarnished reputation, the industry’s long-term goals are clear: more monopoly protections for a longer period of time and more opportunities to charge ever higher prices,"" cautions Professor Brook Baker in a piece for Health GAP. ""If industry succeeds, we will reap the consequences."

Professor Brook Baker responds to Costa Rica’s request for an emergency COVID-19 Technology Intellectual Property Pool (TIPP) for all countries: “Simply put, no exclusive rights should stand in the way of governments’ and the global community’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.”

Respiratory diseases don't care about walls or immigration status,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The American Independent. “If we think we can protect the public from COVID-19 or a similar outbreak by building a wall, we are in big trouble."

It’s the impulse to do something to combat the opioid crisis that has fueled the recent increase in drug-induced homicide prosecutions nationwide, Professor Leo Beletsky tells The Appeal. "These prosecutions take resources away from more effective interventions."

In a co-authored op-ed for CommonWealth, Professor Emily Spieler makes the case in favor of H. 4174/S. 2401, An Act to Protect Injured Workers. The proposed bills would protect workers who seek their rightful access to medical care and workers' compensation from retaliation from their employer.

“This is not a problem of passports and nationality. This is a problem about human beings,” says Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law. “Until the global community sees this as a global problem, that everybody needs to work together in terms of resources and dollars and having a coordinated response, then we’re going to have a problem.”

It’s easy to think of diseases as ‘over there, them, we built a wall—problem solved.’ And that’s just not the way it works, especially with respiratory diseases,” cautions Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law.

Professor Kara Swanson will deliver the luncheon keynote at the Seventeenth Annual IP and Social Justice CLE Seminar on February 28 at Howard University School of Law. Professor Swanson will talk about, "Remembering Invention of a Slave: Patents and the Continuing Struggle for Civil Rights."

Adding plastic filters to cigarettes poses no health benefit to smokers and creates a massive source of toxic tobacco litter, says Ilana Knopf, director of Northeastern Law’s Public Health and Tobacco Policy Center. "This bill corrects a history of industry deception and protects both human health and the natural environment."