In developing responses to COVID-19, it’s important to consider lessons learned by past epidemics, as Dr. Anthony Fauci told us at our 2017 conference, “Between Complacency and Panic: Legal, Ethical and Policy Responses to Emerging Infectious Diseases.”
The show must go on! Portland lawyer Alison “Tex” Clark ’98 has been pre-recording her weekly community radio show with XRAY.FM from home since the emergence of COVID-19.
We’re moving quickly to transition previously on-the-ground events this spring to virtual opportunities to connect. Check our calendar regularly as we build our virtual programming.
Massachusetts Senate President Karen Spilka ’80 will deliver the keynote address at the 2020 Reunion Gala Dinner on Saturday, October 24, as we honor the classes of 1950s, ’75, ’80, ’85, ’90, ’95, ’00, 2005, ’10 and ’15.
Watch now: Joan Fortin ’96, Chief Executive Officer of Bernstein Shur, is featured on The Portland Press Herald’s Like a Boss webinar series and shares her tips managing, adapting and problem solving amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Professor Wendy Parmet joined WBUR’s Morning Edition to discuss how our attitudes are shaping the response to the pandemic: “Three of the top threats to public health amidst the current global crisis are hubris, isolationism and distrust.”
“As the memory of epidemics faded, individual rights became much more important than collective responsibility,” Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, tells The New York Times.
Chase Strangio ’10 and Carmelyn Malalis ’01, both 2020 Stonewall Awardees and nationally recognized LGBT legal activists, share their journeys and hopes for the future.
There are a few, still weak, glimmers of hope regarding the nation’s response to dangers created by our immigration policies, writes Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law, in her latest blog for Health Affairs. “If we are to learn the lessons of this moment, these small glimmers must give rise to a new approach to protecting the health of immigrants.
Priya Lane ’13, director of BizGrow, a program at Lawyers for Civil Rights that helps entrepreneurs with free legal assistance, is featured in the Boston Business Journal.