Wendy Parmet Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law and director of the Center for Health Policy and Law w.parmet@northeastern.edu 617.373.2019 Expertise AIDS law, bioethics, Community Health, coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 vaccines, disability and public health law, discrimination, health law, Masks, pandemic, public health, Travel, Vaccine Development, Vaccines Wendy Parmet in the Press Article Covid backlash hobbles public health and future pandemic response While only a quarter succeeded in weakening public health powers, the rulings have substantially chipped away at the legal standing of health agencies and officials to protect the public, said Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law, who co-wrote the paper. Article Bloomberg Law Abortion Providers Gear Up for Judge’s Ruling Over Pill Approval “This would be an injunction that really changes the status quo,” said Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law. “It’s a pretty momentous thing to take the medication off the market that had been on the market for 20 years.” Article Bloomberg Law HHS Pressed on Next Crisis, Equity as Covid Emergency Lingers In unwinding the PHE, the “HHS has to balance the fact that, on the one hand, it’s not good practice to have an everlasting emergency; that emergency powers, by their very definition, should be for a limited duration,” said Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law. Article Biden Extends Covid Public Health Emergency While States Move On “We’re already seeing obviously tremendous strain on the healthcare system right now,” said Wendy Parmet, a Northeastern University law professor. “We seem to be at the cusp of what might be the tripledemic. I think there’s probably a lot of concern at HHS that the situation may get worse before it gets better.”b Article Bloomberg Law Punching In: New York Businesses Brace for Pay Transparency Rules The major questions doctrine has gone from something the Supreme Court used once every five years to a “Swiss Army knife” for courts to limit agency power, said Wendy Parmet, a law professor who directs Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law. Article Bloomberg Law Talk of Covid’s End Sparks Fight Over Funding, Emergency Powers “We do not have a health-care system that is equitable,” said Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law. When it comes to a vaccine or other Covid-related product, “if the government isn’t going to be the payer of last resort and ensure the supply, then people without means are not […] Article Nature.com Inside the US Supreme Court’s war on science “The Supreme Court’s role in American history is a very mixed bag, but this really is different than anything we’ve ever seen,” says Wendy Parmet, who co-directs the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. Article Most abortions are done at home. Antiabortion groups are taking aim. “So many states in the abortion arena have been playing with misinformation like this, relying on the antiabortion movement instead of medical professionals and what the science shows,” said Wendy E. Parmet, co-director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy & Law. “Some states have required physicians say it causes breast cancer — which is […] Article Bloomberg Law Georgia’s Heartbeat Abortion Ban Tests FDA Limits on Pill Access “States have not been very successful in stopping this use and possession and spread of other substances that are banned,” said Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law. “I remain dubious that they’re going to really be able to stop the use of this.” Article New York Magazine Birth-control pills should be available to everyone “The states that are trying to limit abortion from the moment of conception — not even from the moment of pregnancy, as the medical profession would define it — could well try to challenge Plan B, emergency contraception, potentially even IUDs,” Wendy Parmet, the director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern […] Wendy Parmet for Northeastern Global News How can the US fix legal flaws exposed by COVID-19? 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Article Covid backlash hobbles public health and future pandemic response While only a quarter succeeded in weakening public health powers, the rulings have substantially chipped away at the legal standing of health agencies and officials to protect the public, said Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law, who co-wrote the paper.
Article Bloomberg Law Abortion Providers Gear Up for Judge’s Ruling Over Pill Approval “This would be an injunction that really changes the status quo,” said Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law. “It’s a pretty momentous thing to take the medication off the market that had been on the market for 20 years.”
Article Bloomberg Law HHS Pressed on Next Crisis, Equity as Covid Emergency Lingers In unwinding the PHE, the “HHS has to balance the fact that, on the one hand, it’s not good practice to have an everlasting emergency; that emergency powers, by their very definition, should be for a limited duration,” said Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law.
Article Biden Extends Covid Public Health Emergency While States Move On “We’re already seeing obviously tremendous strain on the healthcare system right now,” said Wendy Parmet, a Northeastern University law professor. “We seem to be at the cusp of what might be the tripledemic. I think there’s probably a lot of concern at HHS that the situation may get worse before it gets better.”b
Article Bloomberg Law Punching In: New York Businesses Brace for Pay Transparency Rules The major questions doctrine has gone from something the Supreme Court used once every five years to a “Swiss Army knife” for courts to limit agency power, said Wendy Parmet, a law professor who directs Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law.
Article Bloomberg Law Talk of Covid’s End Sparks Fight Over Funding, Emergency Powers “We do not have a health-care system that is equitable,” said Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law. When it comes to a vaccine or other Covid-related product, “if the government isn’t going to be the payer of last resort and ensure the supply, then people without means are not […]
Article Nature.com Inside the US Supreme Court’s war on science “The Supreme Court’s role in American history is a very mixed bag, but this really is different than anything we’ve ever seen,” says Wendy Parmet, who co-directs the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.
Article Most abortions are done at home. Antiabortion groups are taking aim. “So many states in the abortion arena have been playing with misinformation like this, relying on the antiabortion movement instead of medical professionals and what the science shows,” said Wendy E. Parmet, co-director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy & Law. “Some states have required physicians say it causes breast cancer — which is […]
Article Bloomberg Law Georgia’s Heartbeat Abortion Ban Tests FDA Limits on Pill Access “States have not been very successful in stopping this use and possession and spread of other substances that are banned,” said Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law. “I remain dubious that they’re going to really be able to stop the use of this.”
Article New York Magazine Birth-control pills should be available to everyone “The states that are trying to limit abortion from the moment of conception — not even from the moment of pregnancy, as the medical profession would define it — could well try to challenge Plan B, emergency contraception, potentially even IUDs,” Wendy Parmet, the director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern […]