April 2019
Volume 7, Number 1
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Greetings from the Center Directors
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This has been a busy and successful year for the
Center for Health Policy and Law
. New faculty, new projects, new scholarship, and a growing roster of events mean there is even more to share with all of you. We hope you enjoy reading about it in our spring newsletter.
Don't forget to make plans to join us next summer (2020) for the Annual Health Law Professors Conference, which will be hosted at Northeastern University School of Law, in collaboration with
ASLME.
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Wendy E. Parmet
Faculty Director
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Jennifer Lea Huer
Managing Director
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About the Center for Health Policy and Law
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Based in Northeastern University School of Law, the Center for Health Policy and Law draws from participating departments across Northeastern University to provide a rich context for students and researchers interested in public health law, health and human rights, health governance, intellectual property, bioethics, health care delivery law and the regulation of our health care system. It is guided by faculty and staff with diverse areas of expertise and is affiliated with an array of university-wide institutes, programs and experiential learning opportunities.
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Northeastern Law Top 10 for Health Care Law in
US News
Ranking
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Northeastern University School of Law advanced to the top 10 law schools for health care law in
U.S. News & World Report’s
2020 rankings. The law school was ranked #9 for 2020, up from #14 in the 2019 rankings.
“Northeastern’s leadership in health law stems from a dynamic, interdisciplinary approach that combines research in a wide range of areas — including public health law, health and human rights, health governance, health care financing, drug law, intellectual property, bioethics, health care delivery law and the regulation of health care systems — with practical strategies for improving the health of individuals and communities,” said Professor Wendy Parmet, faculty director of the
Center for Health Policy and Law
. “But what really makes our program unique, is our people. Our center is comprised of 15 core faculty members from the School of Law and other colleges at Northeastern, as well as an impressive roster of affiliated faculty, and student health law scholars. At Northeastern, health law is not just another subject. We see it as inextricably connected to our public interest mission.”
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2019 Annual Health Law Conference
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Please join us for our annual health law conference
April 11 - 12, 2019
Northeastern University
Keynote Speaker:
John D. Halamka, MD
Chief Information Officer, Beth Israel Deaconess System
Chairman, New England Health Care Exchange Network
International Healthcare Innovation Professor, Harvard Medical School
Afternoon Featured Speaker:
Rick Berke
Executive Editor, STAT News
Panel topics include:
Digital Health
Precision Medicine
Artificial Intelligence
Privacy and Data Security
Social Determinants of Health
Regulation and Market Concentration
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Wendy E. Parmet Receives AALS Community Service Award
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Professor Wendy E. Parmet
, a nationally recognized expert on health, disability and public health law and faculty director of the law school’s
Center for Health Policy and Law
, was honored with the 2019 Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Law, Medicine and Health Care’s Health Law Community Service Award. According to the section, “Professor Parmet has dedicated countless hours to ensuring health care access to the most vulnerable.”
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Margo Lindauer Named AALS Bellow Scholar
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Professor Margo Lindauer ’07
, director of the law school’s
Domestic Violence Institute
and
Domestic Violence Clinic
, was named a
Bellow Scholar
at
the annual meeting of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in New Orleans. The Bellow Scholar Program, administered by the AALS Clinical Section, recognizes and supports the research projects of clinical law professors that reflect the ideals of Professor Gary Bellow — a pioneering founder of modern clinical legal education.
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Leo Beletsky Named to Harm Reduction Commission
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In recognition of his expertise and advocacy on issues related to the opioid crisis and substance use disorders,
Professor Leo Beletsky was appointed to the Massachusetts Harm Reduction Commission. The Commission was charged with gathering information, convening as a group and with other experts, and submitting a report to the Massachusetts Legislature on whether or not the state should consider establishing safe consumption sites.
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Aziza Ahmed Visiting Professor of Law at University of Chicago
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Professor Aziza Ahmed will spend the Spring 2019 quarter as a visiting professor of law at the University of Chicago Law School. In addition to her ongoing research on law, feminism and science, Professor Ahmed will teach a course in Health Law.
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2020 Health Law Professors Conference at Northeastern
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The Center for Health Policy and Law is thrilled to announce that, in collaboration with the
American Society of Law, Medicine, & Ethics (ASLME), Northeastern University School of Law will host the 2020 Health Law Professors Conference! The conference will draw more than 200 health policy and law academics and scholars from across the nation for a three-day event intended to facilitate intense discussion, scholarship and research dissemination, and collaboration.
Save the date:
June 3-5, 2020, and stay tuned for more information.
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Faith Khalik Joins as Public Health Law Watch Legal Fellow
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Over the next year, Faith will manage PHLW and all related activities. She will focus on connecting and engaging with members of the George Consortium to accomplish the goals of the initiative.
Prior to joining the Center, Faith worked at Georgia Sea Grant in Athens, Georgia, where her research portfolio focused on the Clean Water Act and related legal issues. She also has extensive experience working on various legislative and outreach activities for Wisconsin state senators and Russ Feingold's senate campaign.
Faith earned a JD from the University of Georgia and a BA in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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Northeastern University Law Review Publishes Papers in Collaboration with 2018 Annual Health Law Conference
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In conjunction with our 2018 Health Law Conference, Diseases of Despair: The Role of Policy and Law, the Center collaborated with the
Northeastern University Law Review on a special
spring 2019 issue. We issued a Call for Papers in the fall of 2018 and were thrilled to receive numerous abstract submissions. From those submissions, we selected five authors to present at our 2018 conference. Authors were then invited to publish their papers in the law review.
We hope you enjoy reading:
Elisabeth J. Ryan
Matthew B. Lawrence
Abraham Gutman, Katie Moran-McCabe, Scott Burris
Nicolas P. Terry
Taleed El-Sabawi
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Finding the Nexus: Linking Systems for Domestic Violence
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Survivors of domestic violence face innumerable barriers when accessing services. With no central hub, services such as shelter, housing, benefits and education splinter into additional systems to navigate and manage. From there, it gets even more complicated: many offices and organizations that are disjointed, siloed, not easily accessible or conveniently located, not inclusive, and unable to effectively collaborate among themselves.
This one-day conference was a first-time collaborative event co-hosted by the
Center for Health Policy and Law and the School of Law's
Domestic Violence Institute. The conference was standing-room only, with over 100 experts, practitioners, advocates and survivors in attendance to explore the many barriers domestic violence survivors face in accessing judicial and social services, as well as discuss potential solutions to bridging the gaps and linking systems.
In her keynote address, Rachael Rollins '97, district attorney for Suffolk County, emphasized the need for district attorneys and other members of the legal system to meaningfully collaborate with advocates and community organizations.
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Our faculty are frequently quoted in leading national publications. Follow our
news page to see the full listing.
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New York Suburb Declares Measles Emergency, Barring Unvaccinated Children from Public
"Because health officials are given broad powers to deal with public health emergencies, it is important that they use them in ways that are not counterproductive," Wendy E. Parmet recently told the
New York Times.
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Judge Says Tampa Conversion Therapy Ban Violates First Amendment Free-Speech Rights
In an article by
The Washington Post, Claudia Haupt
offers an explanation as to why a magistrate court judge ruling did not align with previous rulings and interpretations on professional speech. "The problem usually is that... licensed professionals can't just say anything they want. If you're acting in your professional capacity, there are consequences to giving bad advice, so speech can be sanctioned."
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Suit Alleges Bias in Civil Commitments for Addiction
"Massachusetts also uses civil commitments much more commonly than any other state." Leo Beletsky told
The Boston Globe. "Getting a loved one 'sectioned' is a fast and simple way for parents to access care for free, and many can find no other options."
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Selected Recent Faculty and Staff Publications
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Selected highlights from core members of our team. Please visit our website for a full listing.
Aziza Ahmed
Brook Baker
Claudia Haupt
Jennifer Lea Huer
Matthew Miller
Wendy E. Parmet
Richard Wamai
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Spring and Summer Faculty and Staff Presentations
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Aziza Ahmed
"Dead But Not Disabled": How Feminist Lawyers and Advocates Changed the Medical Definition of AIDS
February 2019
Leo Beletsky
Panel: Health and Addiction
February 2019
Panel: Opioid Use Disorder and Mass Incarceration
March 2019
Claudia Haupt
"Online Speech Regulation: A Comparative Perspective"
March 2019
"Public Health Originalism and the First Amendment"
April 2019
"Comparative Online Speech Regulation"
May 2019
"Public Health Originalism and the First Amendment"
May 2019
"Artificial Professional Advice"
June 2019
Jennifer Lea Huer
Panel:
Immigrant Health Care: What’s Changed? What Might Change? How Can We Prepare?
June 2019
Wendy E. Parmet
"Public Health Emergency Powers: Quarantine"
January 2019
"The Plenary Power Meets the Police Power: Federalism at the Intersection of Health & Immigration"
January 2019
Panel: Rethinking the Role of Civil Litigation in Response to the Opioid Crisis
February 2019
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Make sure to check out the panels featuring our health law faculty:
Aziza Ahmed
Concurrent Sessions 7
Panel: Feminist Perspectives on Insurance
Leo Beletsky
Concurrent Sessions 6
Panel: Perspectives on the Opioid Crisis
Claudia Haupt
Concurrent Sessions 5
Panel: Artificial Intelligence
Kristin Madison
Concurrent Sessions 9
Panel: Fraud and Abuse
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Recent and Upcoming Events
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Health Law Roundtables - Spring 2019
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January 9
Policy Implications for Substance Use: Drug and Alcohol Treatment Among Women Who Have HIV
Danielle Haley
Assistant Professor of Health Sciences
Institute for Equity and Social Justice Research
Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Northeastern University
February 5
Law, Public Health, and Social Movements: How Lawyers and Activists Changed the CDC Definition of AIDS
Aziza Ahmed
Professor of Law
Northeastern University School of Law
March 26
Rural Health Universality and Legislative Targeting
Nicole Huberfeld
Professor of Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights
School of Public Health
Professor of Law
School of Law
Boston University
April 29
Imagining an Ethnography of Pregnant Class-Privileged Women of Color
Khiara Bridges
Professor of Law
Associate Dean for Equity, Justice & Engagement
Boston University School of Law
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February 6
Lunch & Learn Speaker Series
Garth Davis '12
Compliance Program Manager, Wellframe
Sponsored by the Center for Health Policy and Law, the Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity, and New Markets Partnerships
February 11
Film Screening
Blowin' Up
Sponsored by the Center for Health Policy and Law and the Domestic Violence Institute
February 13
Snacks n' Chats with Health Law Faculty
Professor Leo Beletsky
Sponsored by the Center for Health Policy and Law and the Health Law Society
March 8
Law as Advocacy
Sam Ames
Interim Executive Director, Trans Lifeline
Sponsored by the Center for Health Policy and Law, the Center for Public Interest Advocacy and Collaboration, QueerCaucus, and Transgender Justice Task Force
March 20 and 22
Comment Writing Party
Proposed Changes to SNAP Benefits Regulations
Sponsored by the Center for Health Policy and Law and the Public Health Law Watch
March 28
Film Screening
Bending the Arc
Sponsored by the Center for Health Policy and Law and Partners in Health Engage
April 3
Lunch & Learn Speaker Series
Jason Rifkin '03
President/CEO, PhageNova Bio
Robert Warren '03
Chief Operation Officer and Chief Financial Officer, AZTherapies, Inc.
Compliance Program Manager, Wellframe
Sponsored by the Center for Health Policy and Law, the Center for Law, Innovation and Creativity, and New Markets Partnerships
April 24
Health Law Networking Event
Speakers represent experts from multiple sectors and practice areas, including pharmaceuticals, compliance, policy, and consulting.
Sponsored by the Center for Health Policy and Law and the Health Law Society
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