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October 2015
Volume 3, Number 2
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Parmet Appointed Northeastern's First Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Education and Research
As a prolific scholar and public health law specialist, Professor Wendy Parmet has long explored the blending of public health methodologies and perspectives with normative and doctrinal approaches that are more commonly found in law schools. She founded Northeastern's Program on Health Policy and Law, and, in addition to her position on the law school faculty, was recently named by the College of Social Sciences and Humanities as Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs.
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Top Boston Firms Join Forces with PHAI
In September, four leading Boston law firms joined a strategic alliance with the School of Law's Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) to pursue litigation against the tobacco industry on behalf of the families of former smokers who have suffered devastating disease from cigarettes.
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Program on Health Policy and Law Annual Lecture
Michele Bratcher Goodwin, Chancellor's Professor of Law and director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, will speak on "The New Jane Crow: Reproduction, Incarceration and the Collateral Damage on Children and Families." Join us on October 26 at noon.
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George Consortium Holds Symposium in Parmet's Honor
The George Consortium - a national group of leading public health law scholars - held a symposium at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor in April to honor Matthews Distinguished University Professor Wendy Parmet's book Populations, Public Health, and the Law. Parmet is one of the nation's top public health law experts. The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law will issue a special volume with the articles presented at the symposium.
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Could Safe Injection Sites for IV Drug Users be in the Works for NYC?
In the New York Daily News, Professor Leo Beletsky says, "The downside of doing it through executive action is that it could be easily overturned. [If] de Blasio doesn't get reelected; the next person who comes in could easily reverse that action."
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Obamacare: Massachusetts Provides SCOTUS the Basis for Upholding Law it Inspired
In an interview with National Public Radio/WGBH News, Professor Wendy Parmet says, "What the Court said here was you have to read the ACA in light of all three legs of that stool. And that's really what Congress was attempting to do with the ACA, to do what Massachusetts did, and that understanding has to be read into the ACA."
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"Organ Marketplaces" of the Future
In an interview with WGBH's Innovation Hub, Professor Kara Swanson says, "What I am advocating is that we need to consider compensating people who supply organs .... I think we need to try some different models in order to increase the supply, in order to decrease the scarcity, in order to increase the justice in access to these things."
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Cigarette Smoking is a Weapon of Mass Destruction
In Rappler (Philippines/Indonesia), Professor Richard Daynard says, "Marlboro is the deadliest consumer product known to man and Philip Morris is the marketer of the deadliest product known to man."
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Based in Northeastern University School of Law, the Program on 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 University Health-Related Institutes and Programs
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Northeastern University School of Law Health-Related Dual-Degree Programs
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2015 USTR Special 301 Report: Reactions and the Way Forward
In Express Pharma, Professor Brook Baker writes, "This may be a cat-and-mouse game, but make no mistake who is the cat and who is the cat's master. The US will continue to playfully bat India around with its paws, seeking its acquiescence to the monopoly intentions of Big Pharma and other IP-based transnationals. At the same time, the cat is sizing up India to eliminate it as a competitor for the pleasure and profits of the US's IP behemoths. ... The sooner India clarifies its anti-monopoly stance, the more secure the right to health will be."
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Recent Selected Publications By Our Faculty
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Roundtable: Employer Wellness Incentives, Disability and Coerced Disclosure
Kristin Madison,
Professor of Law and Health Sciences, Northeastern University School of Law
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Annual Lecture on Health Policy and Law: The New Jane Crow: Reproduction, Incarceration and the Collateral Damage on Children and Families
October 26, 2015
Michele Bratcher Goodwin, Chancellor's Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy, University of California, Irvine School of Law
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Roundtable: The Impact of Damages Caps on Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums
Kathryn Zeller, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law
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Roundtable: Making People Healthier by Suing Corporate Miscreants
Richard Daynard, University Distinguished Professor of Law and President, Public Health Advocacy Institute, Northeastern University School of Law
Andrew Rainer, Litigation Director, Public Health Advocacy Institute, Northeastern University School of Law
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Roundtable: A Brief Overview of NEU Sponsored Research Culture: An Informal Discussion
Charles Storey, Assistant Dean of Research, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University
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Roundtable: Deciding Who Decides: Legal and Medical Paternalism in Reproductive Medicine
Kara Swanson, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
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Roundtable: Utilizing an Urban Health Framework to Guide Policy Development
Shan Mohammed, Associate Clinical Professor, Northeastern University School of Law
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J
ean McGuire, Professor of Practice, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University
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Conference: Individual Choice v. Collective Destiny: The Future of Public Health
Keynote Speaker: Jon Hanson, Alfred Smart Professor of Law and Director of the Project on Law and Mind Science, Harvard Law School
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May 11, 2016
Jack Dennerlein, Professor, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University School of Law
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