Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, is a leading expert on health, disability and public health law. She also holds a joint appointment with Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs in recognition of her national leadership in interdisciplinary thinking and problem solving on issues related to health care. Professor Parmet has published articles on public health, bioethics, discrimination, health law and AIDS law. She is co-author of The Health of Newcomers: Immigration, Health Policy, and the Case for Global Solidarity (NYU Press, 2017) and Ethical Health Care (Prentice Hall, 2005); author of Populations, Public Health, and the Law (Georgetown University Press, 2009); and co-editor of Debates on U.S. Health Care (Sage Press, 2012). Professor Parmet was among a group of public health and law experts to issue guidelines for a US response to the “inevitable” widespread transmission of the Coronavirus in an open letter to Vice President Mike Pence and other government officials.
- Florida Policy Set Amid Measles Outbreak Alarms Vaccination Proponents,” STAT, (February 22, 2024)
- “Should Doctors Who Are Public Officials Have th e Right To Spread Medical Misinformation to the General Public?,” Northeastern Global News (January 26, 2024).
- “Covid, Year Four,” The Nation (January 25, 2024).
- “Context Matters: Affirmative Action, Public Health, and the Use of Population-Level Data,” Petrie Flom Blog (October 4, 2023).
- “COVID-19 Lockdowns Returning? Here’s Why Public Health Experts Say That’s Unlikely,” PolitiFact (September 8, 2023).
- “Covid’s Remote Work Experience Is Slowly Changing Disability Law,” Bloomberg Law (July 6, 2023).
- “In Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts, and Public Health, Professor Wendy E. Parmet Argues Reform is Critical Before the Next Pandemic Strikes,” Northeastern Law News Announcement (June 1, 2023).
- “COVID Battle Lines Moving From Emergency Room to Courtroom,” Politico (April 9, 2023).
- “What if the Next Pandemic Happened Tomorrow?,” The New York Times (March 12, 2023).
- “COVID Backlash Hobbles Public Health and Future Pandemic Response,” The Washington Post (March 8, 2023).
- “How Public Health Officials Got Figuratively Handcuffed,” The Washington Post (March 8, 2023).
- “Who Should Decide the Nation’s Pandemic Response?,” Bloomberg Law (May 12, 2022).
- “‘It’s a Tsunami’: Legal Challenges Threatening Public Health Policy,” Politico (May 10, 2022).
- “Are We Out of the Pandemic Phase of COVID-19?,” News@Northeastern (May 5, 2022).
- “Covid Travel Mask Ruling Threatens to Tie CDC’s Hands on Future Pandemics,” The Financial Times (April 20, 2022).
- “COVID Revealed the Fragility of American Public Health,” Scientific American (March 22, 2022).
- “A Dangerous Legal Battle Over Vaccine Mandates Will Continue,” The New York Times (October 31, 2021).
- “We’ve Entered a New Era in the Legal Battles of COVID-19,” The Atlantic (September 1, 2021).
- “Could Joe Biden Challenge Florida, Texas on Mask Policies? Probably Not,” PolitiFact (August 10, 2021).
- “House Democrats Push For Vaccine-Or-Test Mandate For Members And Staff,” Forbes (August 4, 2021).
- “Mandating COVID-19 Vaccines in Schools a Political Gamble for States,” The National Journal (June 20, 2021).
- “What do the New CDC Mask Guidelines Mean?,” Northeastern News (May 14, 2021).
- ‘The CDC guidance is not law’: Legal expert weighs in on future of mask mandates in private spaces,” Boston 25 News (May 13, 2021).
- “In the Age of Coronavirus, Restrictive Immigration Policies Pose a Serious Public Health Threat,” Health Affairs Blog (April 18, 2020).
- “Social Justice in COVID-19 Response: The Legal Issues We Have to Talk About,” Public Health Law Watch (April 13, 2020).
- “Conservative Courts Say They Can’t Set Health Policy — And Then They Do It Anyway,” The Washington Post (April 12, 2021).
- “Trust in Covid-19 Vaccines Could Turn on a Knife Edge,” The Washington Post (September 6, 2020).
- “Legal Experts Blast U.S. Response to COVID-19,” MedPage Today (August 18, 2020).
- “Should Mass. Residents Be Worried About Tourists From Coronavirus Hotspots Importing More Illness?,” The Boston Globe (June 22, 2020).
- “Principles in the Nuremberg Code are Compatible With Vaccination,” AFP Fact Check (May 29, 2020).
- “Lack Of Coordination In Reopenings Could Lead To More Coronavirus Spread, Spillover Between States,” The Boston Globe (May 21, 2020).
- Who’s Enforcing Mask Rules? Often Retail Workers, and They’re Getting Hurt,” The New York Times (May 15, 2020).
- “Top Health Experts Paint Bleak Picture of Pandemic,”The New York Times (May 12, 2020).
- “Rethinking Freedom,”iai News (May 5, 2020).
- “Seattle Has a Sane Plan to End Lockdown. It Might Not Work,”The Daily Beast (May 4, 2020).
- “Southern Illinois Wants Freedom, Not More J.B. Pritzker Coronavirus Rules, Folks Say,” Belleville News-Democrat (April 30, 2020).
- “Here’s Why Coronavirus Is Being Classified as a Biological Agent,” CNBC (April 29, 2020).
- “In the Age of Coronavirus, Restrictive Immigration Policies Pose a Serious Public Health Threat,”Health Affairs Blog (April 18, 2020).
- “State Alliances Are Leading the US Fight Against Covid-19,”Wired (April 16, 2020).
- “Illinois Has ‘Supreme Authority’ to Enforce Coronavirus Quarantine – But Won’t Use It,”The Pantagraph (April 16, 2020).
- “States Move to Coordinate on Reopening Plans,” The Wall Street Journal (April 13, 2020).
- “Social Justice in COVID-19 Response: The Legal Issues We Have to Talk About,”Public Health Law Watch (April 13, 2020).
- “The 115-Year-Old Supreme Court Opinion That Could Determine Rights During a Pandemic,” CNN Politics (April 10, 2020).
- “America Has Conquered Plagues Before. We Can Do It Again,”The New York Times (April 9, 2020).
- “On Hubris, Isolationism And Distrust During The Pandemic,” WBUR's Morning Edition (April 9, 2020).
- “Trump Decides Against Quarantine for New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,”The Wall Street Journal (March 30, 2020).
- “Coronavirus Named: What Does COVID-19 Stand For? Coronavirus Name Meaning,”Express (March 30, 2020).
- “A Tiny Island Tries to Shut Out the Virus,”Poltico (March 28, 2020).
- “Expert Discusses Power Of President, Governors During COVID-19 Pandemic,” WATD Radio (March 28, 2020).
- “Abbreviated Pundit Roundup: The Pandemic Is Real, and so Are the Politics,”Daily Kos (March 27, 2020).
- “Experts: Trump’s Plan to Lift Coronavirus Restrictions by Easter Would Kill Hundreds of Thousands,“Salon (March 26, 2020).
- “How the Pandemic Will End,”The Atlantic (March 25, 2020).
- “Social Distancing, Politicized: Trump Allies Are Urging an End to Isolation, Worrying Public Health Experts,”STAT (March 24, 2020).
- Podcast: Politics with Amy Walter: Governing, the Economy, and Coronavirus, The Takeaway (March 20, 2020).
- “Covid-19 — The Law and Limits of Quarantine,”The New England Journal of Medicine (March 18, 2020).
- “Can Local Governments Enforce Quarantines? Should They?,” NPR (March 18, 2020).
- “Health Officials Want To Force Those With COVID-19 To Stay Home — But That Isn't Easy,” KBIA Radio (March 18, 2020).
- “Coronavirus is Turning an Overloaded Immigration System into a ‘Tinderbox’,”Los Angeles Times (March 17, 2020).
- “The Police Power of the States to Control a Pandemic, Explained,”The Dispatch (March 17, 2020).
- "The American System is Completely Unprepared,"De Tijd (March 16, 2020).
- “That Text You’re Getting Is a Hoax. Trump Is Not Calling for a National Quarantine,”Mother Jones (March 16, 2020).
- “In Coronavirus Fight, Kansas and Missouri Hold ‘Awesome’ Powers to Isolate You,”The Witchita Eagle (March 15, 2020).
- “What More Could He Do? A Look at Trump's Extreme Powers,” Politico (March 13, 2020).
- “Trump and States Have Broad Powers to Do 'Extraordinary Things' to Contain the Virus,” NBC News (March 13, 2020).
- “Want to Sue Because of a Coronavirus Quarantine? Good Luck,”Bloomberg Law (March 13, 2020).
- “How Health Care Inequity Could Make the COVID-19 Crisis Worse,” PBS News Hour (March 13, 2020).
- Podcast: “COVID-19 in Canada, how the U.S. is Dealing with the New Coronavirus and the Stock Markets React,” Scott Thompson Show (March 9, 2020).
- “Immigration Status Should Play No Role in Treatment for Coronavirus,”USA Today (March 6, 2020).
- “Amid Coronavirus Fears, Senators Call For Suspension Of Rule That Could Discourage Immigrants From Seeking Care,” WBUR's Common Health (March 5, 2020).
- “The US Has a ‘Plan’ to Fight Coronavirus: You,”Wired (March 5, 2020).
- “New Hampshire Man Ignored Advice to Stay Home Before Testing Positive for Coronavirus, Raises Self-Quarantine Questions,” Fox News (March 5, 2020).
- “Trump’s Immigration Policies Will Make the Coronavirus Pandemic Worse,”STAT (March 4, 2020).
- “Told to Stay Home, Suspected Coronavirus Patient Attended Event With Dartmouth Students,”The New York Times (March 4, 2020).
- “The Government Has the Power to Shut Down Entire Cities. but Would That Stop Coronavirus?,”LiveScience (March 4, 2020).
- “What an Equitable Coronavirus Response Should Look Like,”Fast Company (March 4, 2020).
- “Professor Wendy Parmet Among Public Health and Law Experts Who Issue Guidelines for US Response to “Inevitable” Widespread Coronavirus Transmission,” Northeastern Law News Announcement (February 26, 2020).
- “Just Between Us: Health and human rights amid the spread of the Coronavirus,”The Huntington News (February 26, 2020).
- “Fighting Coronavirus Means Relying on the Truth -- Not Political Fiction,”The Harford Courant (co-authored with Professor Jeremy Paul) (February 23, 2020).
- “The Cruise Ship Was Kept at Bay. the Spread of Coronavirus Was Not,” Northeastern News (February 19, 2020).
- “Coronavirus: Why Poxes, Plagues Are out and New Disease Is ‘COVID-19’,”The Mercury News (February 14, 2020).
- Podcast: “COVID-19 Medical Treatment and Quarantine Regulations,” tbs eFM This Morning (February 14, 2020).
- “Why WHO's Formal Name for the New Coronavirus Matters,” MSN Lifestyle (February 11, 2020).
- “Wuhan Pneumonia: Different Treatments During the Withdrawal and Repatriation of Overseas Chinese From Different Countries, Including Throwing Eggs and Sending Flowers,” BBC China (February 6, 2020).
- “How Long Can China’s Mass Quarantine Stave off a Coronavirus Pandemic?,” Northeastern News (February 5, 2020).
- ”Coronavirus: Could the US Government's Quarantine and Travel Ban Backfire?,” The Guardian (February 4, 2020).
- “Why We Should Be Wary of an Aggressive Government Response to Coronavirus,” The Washington Post (February 3, 2020).