Richard Daynard

Dr. Harry Levant, Mark Gottlieb, and Richard Daynard of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University featured on The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper to discuss sports gambling.

While professional athletes are richly compensated, they are just as susceptible as the public to problem gambling, says Richard Daynard, president of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University. “The temptations are just very, very great,” Daynard tells Axios.

A Northeastern law professor who helped take on Big Tobacco, Richard Daynard, said he sees parallels in how cigarettes and online betting products are sold.

On a warm Friday night, the Northeastern University law professor stood in the dark threshold of Banners Kitchen & Tap wearing sporty oxfords, khakis, a pastel-peach shirt, and—most conspicuously—a sweater looped around his neck.

The boom in sports gambling has been linked with a host of problems. Sports-betting firms have designed their offerings to foster gambling addiction, according to Richard Daynard, president of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University’s law school. 

To Richard Daynard, president of the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) at Northeastern University’s law school, such language deflects from gambling’s heavy social toll.

The psychology of sports betting apps is modeled on the slot machine, argues Dr Richard Daynard, a law professor at Northeastern University and the founder and president of its Public Health Advocacy Institute.

Richard Daynard, a professor at Northeastern University School of Law, said the families of the submersible victims do not have a strong case to bring against OceanGate.

Podcast interview with Richard Daynard, a professor at Northeastern University and president of the Public Health Advocacy Institute. 

Podcast interview with Richard Daynard, professor of law and president of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University.