Author Rishi Reddi '92 has published her first novel, `Passage West,’ which follows a family of Indian sharecroppers at the onset of World War I, revealing a little-known part of California history.
“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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
“People believed the rhetoric that containment would work,” Professor Wendy Parmet tells The Atlantic. “We keep them out, and we’ll be okay. When you have a body politic that buys into these ideas of isolationism and ethnonationalism, you’re especially vulnerable when a pandemic hits.”
Professor Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern Law's Center for Health Policy and Law, provides expert commentary on the 2019 novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak.