April 2015 
Volume 3, Number 1
University of Michigan School of Public Health to Host Symposium Honoring Professor Wendy Parmet's Populations, Public Health, and the Law
The George Consortium a national group of leading public health scholars will hold a symposium at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor on April 17, 2015, focused on Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law Wendy Parmet's book Populations, Public Health, and the Law. A member of the Northeastern University School of Law faculty and director of its Program on Health Policy and Law, Parmet is one of the nation's top public health law experts. Former US Surgeon General Richard Carmona will deliver the keynote speech.
Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) Expands into Litigation
Traditionally focused on research and advising, PHAI has branched out with a new Center for Public Health Litigation. Directed by Andrew Rainer, a former prosecutor and civil trial attorney, the center is pursuing high-impact tobacco and public health litigation related to the marketing of unhealthy foods to children.
Leo Beletsky
Beletsky Teams with UCSD and El Colegio de la Frontera Norte to Promote HIV Prevention in Mexico
Assistant Professor of Law and Health Sciences Leo Beletsky is partnering with a research team that includes the University of California San Diego and El Colegio de la Frontera Norte (COLEF) to promote prevention of HIV and other blood-borne infections. The research team will work with the Tijuana Police Department and Police Academy to offer and evaluate Proyecto ESCUDO (Project SHIELD), a police education program designed to align law enforcement and HIV prevention in Tijuana.

Northeastern Launches JD/MPH to Meet Urban Health Challenges

Northeastern University's School of Law and Bouv? College of Health Sciences have launched an innovative dual-degree JD/MPH in Urban Health to meet the growing need for professionals trained to respond to unique public health challenges and opportunities facing urban populations. These include racial and ethnic health disparities, illnesses associated with the built environment, substance abuse and community violence.

Kimberly Haddad '07 Appointed Chief of Staff for UMass Medical School's Commonwealth Medicine Division
Kimberly Haddad, who earned both a JD and MPH through the School of Law's dual-degree program with Tufts University School of Medicine, has been named chief of staff of UMass Medical School's public service consulting and operations division, Commonwealth Medicine. She previously served as both director of health care policy and deputy general counsel at the Massachusetts Executive Office for Administration and Finance. In that role, she advised the secretary of administration and finance about health policy and legal matters concerning state and federal health reform, sustainable budgeting and health care issues.

Laura Redman '03 Appointed Director of the Health Justice Program at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest

New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI) a leading civil rights advocacy group for marginalized New Yorkers, has appointed Laura Redman, former senior attorney at the National Center for Law and Economic Justice, as director of health justice. Redman will bring her litigation and advocacy experience to lead and manage NYLPI's health justice team to achieve justice for underserved New Yorkers.

Kimberly Dougherty '03 Fights for Clients in Compounding Settlement
Kimberly Dougherty, managing attorney of the Boston office of Janet, Jenner & Suggs, is representing 100 victims nationwide seeking compensation related to the tainted drugs produced by the New England Compounding Center. As of early March, the fund to compenstate patients killed and sickened by tainted druges had grown to $210 million. Dougherty also sits on a committee overseeing the settlement.
About the Program on Health Policy and Law
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.
Northeastern University Health-Related Institutes and Programs
Northeastern University School of Law Health-Related Dual-Degree Programs
America's Bitter Pill

Acclaimed author Steven Brill visited the law school in January and delivered a lecture on health care reform to an audience of more than 100 students, faculty and staff.   (more)

Faculty in the News

Group's lawsuits aim to boost public health

In  The Boston Globe , University Professor of Law Richard Dayard says, "litigation can be the best way to tackle a public health issue if regulation has not done its job."  (more)

Quarantines Rarely Used, Effectiveness Questioned

In The Wall Street Journal, Professor Wendy Parmet argues, "Being overbroad, being draconian is not necessarily the best way to keep us safe." (more)

Baker on Intellectual Property Rights, Free Trade and Access to Medicines

In an interview with Harvard University's Health and Human Rights Journal, Professor Brook Baker says, "The right to health has historically been actualized in the judicial context, but it can be usefully actualized in legislative battles, law reform battles, which try to achieve more structural change."   (more)
Recent Selected Publications By Our Faculty
Events

Roundtable: Firearms and Suicide

April 15, 2015

Matthew Miller, Director of Undergraduate Health Sciences Program, Bouv? College of Health Sciences
Matthew Miller, a physician with training in Internal Medicine and Medical Oncology, is an expert in injury and violence prevention, with a special interest in firearm related violence and public health approaches to preventing suicide. Dr. Miller's suicide scholarship underscores the importance of efforts that reduce not only suffering that leads people to attempt suicide, but also ready access to highly lethal methods used in suicidal acts, such as firearms. 
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Symposium Honoring Professor Wendy Parmet's Populations, Public Health, and the Law

April 17, 2015
Hosted by the University of Michigan School of Public Health, this symposium will discuss, among other things, ways of responding to recent judicial trends that impose limits on health officials' ability to protect the population's health. Former US Surgeon General Richard Carmona will deliver the keynote speech.

Roundtable: Did Medicare Part D Improve National Trends in Health Outcomes or Medical Care Utilization?

April 29, 2015

Becky Briesacher, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy and Health Systems Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Northeastern University
Becky Briesacher is a health services researcher with nationally-recognized expertise in drug policy and medication use in older adults. Her research has received funding from NIH, AHRQ, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Commonwealth Fund, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and AARP. 
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Roundtable: The Domestic Violence Institute: Practice and Partnership (Current Work, Collaboration and Plans for the future)

May 18, 2015

Margo Lindauer, Visiting Clinical Professor and Director of the Domestic Violence Institute, Northeastern University School of Law
Margo Lindauer holds a visiting joint appointment with the School of Law and Bouv? College of Health Sciences as the director of the Domestic Violence Institute and the director of the Domestic Violence Clinic. Prior to joining the Northeastern community, Professor Lindauer worked at Project Place as the director of Partnerships to Opportunities for Women in Re-Entry (POWR), where she oversaw the implementation of an innovative Department of Labor grant dedicated to working with female ex-offenders within six months of re-entry.   
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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 & Global Health Policy, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Michele Goodwin's research concerns the role of law in the promotion and regulation of medicine, science and biotechnology.  She researches and teaches in the areas of biotechnology, bioethics and identity. Reviews of her work appear in The New England Journal of Medicine, Nature, Publisher's Weekly, Law and Politics Book Review, Book News and the Library Journal, among other periodicals. Her editorials and commentaries appear in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Gene Watch, The Christian Science Monitor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Houston Chronicle, Chicago Sun Times, The Washington Post and Forbes magazine.     
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