News and Events
NEWS
May 24, 2012: Law Faculty Awarded Four Interdisciplnary Research Grants
January 5, 2012: In a case filed by Health Law Advocates and argued by Professor Wendy Parmet, the Sumpreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that a state law blocking legal immigrants' access to the Commonwealth Care health insurance program violated the Massachusetts constitution. Find out more through the national media coverage.
EVENTS
May 13, 2013
Faculty Roundtable
Harnessing Interdisciplinary Perspectives to Inform Effective Health Policy and Law in HIV/AIDS Response
Brook Baker, Richard Wamai, Aziza Ahmed,
April 18-19, 2013
Conference: After
the Storm: New Directions in Health Policy and Law
April 3, 2013
Faculty Roundtable
The Use of Breastfeeding-Related Reporting to Improve Health Care Quality
Kristin Madison and Roger Edwards
March 26, 2013
Faculty Roundtable
Title (TBA)
Helen Suh MacIntosh, Bouve College of Health Sciences
Febuary15, 2013
Faculty Roundtable
Indoor tanning near campus: Student motivations and university policies
Mark Gottlieb, J.D., Executive Director of The Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law
Rachel Rodgers, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling & Applied Educational Psychology, Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Deb Franko, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Febuary 6, 2013
HIV/AIDS Policy Grand Rounds
Injection Drug Use and HIV: A Tale of Deadly Policy
This workshop (3rd in
the series) will focus on the role of drug policy as a driver of the HIV
epidemic among injection drug users. Professor Leo Beletsky will
be joined by guest expert, Professor Robert Heimer, Yale School of Public Health. The speakers will explore the
interface of drug policy, HIV risk and human rights, with special focus on the
role of law and law enforcement in fueling the epidemic in the US and Eastern
Europe.
January 22, 2013
Faculty Roundtable
The Vitality of the Brand: Pharmaceutical Trademarks and the Material Culture of Efficacy
Jeremy Green, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University
December 10, 2012
Faculty Roundtable
Law, Knowledge and Science: The Politics of HIV
Aziza Ahmed, School of Law
November 28, 2012
HIV/AIDS Policy Grand Rounds
The Cutting Edge: Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention
The Program on Health Policy and Law presents interdisciplinary perspectives and questions on the history, application and current debates to combat the epidemic.
Featuring professors Daniel Halperin of Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and Richard Wamai of Northeastern University.
12:00 to 2:00 p.m., 94 Cargill Hall
November 19, 2012
Faculty Roundtable
What’s Next in Health Policy and Law After the Election
November 1-2, 2012
Institute on Human Rights and the Social Determinants of Health
Co-sponsored with the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy
October 15, 2012
Faculty Roundtable
Optimizing the Response of Prevention: HIV Efficiency in Africa Project
Richard Wamai, Department of African American Studies, and Omar Galarraga, Brown University
September 21, 2012
Faculty Roundtable
Collaborating for Impact: Healthy Kids, Health Futures — A Multi-Level Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Initiative
Carmen Sceppa and Jessica Hoffman, Bouvé College of Health Sciences
12:00 to 1:30 p.m., 120 Knowles
September 11, 2012
HIV/AIDS Policy Grand Rounds
Treatment for/plus/as Prevention
The Program on Health Policy and Law presents interdisciplinary perspectives and questions on the history, application and current debates to combat the epidemic.
Featuring professors Brook Baker of Northeastern University School of Law and Professor Jen Cohn, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania and Doctors without Borders
12:00 to 2:00 p.m., 94 Cargill Hall
August 6, 2012
Workshop
Rhode Island Overdose Death Prevention: Naloxone Access and Distribution
Strategy Day
A special one-day session to learn about overdose education/naloxone distribution
models and to strategize next steps in Rhode Island. Invited
speakers include national leaders in overdose death prevention who will discuss
successful models for overdose prevention training/naloxone
distribution.
Leo Beletsky, School of Law, and others
RSVP to sbowman@lifespan.org.
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
July 23-24, 2012
Workshop (by invitation)
Advancing Public Health through the Law:The Role of Legal Academics
Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Public Health Law Research
July 18, 2012
ACA Panel: Health Health Reform Upheld!
A discussion on the Supreme Court's ACA Decision. Sponsored by the Health Law Society.
12:00 to 1:30 p.m., 240 Dockser Hall
Panelists
Former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and Wendy Parmet, Kristin Madison and Martha Davis, School of Law
Presentation materials:
Professor Kristin Madison: The Supreme Court Speaks: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Decision
Professor Wendy Parmet: The Constitutionality of the Medicaid Expansion: The Stealth Claim
May 3, 2012
Faculty Roundtable
The Ethics of Social Capital and Implications for Health
Patricia Illingworth, College of Social Sciences & Humanities
12:00 to 1:30 p.m., 120 Knowles
April 13, 2012
Faculty Roundtable
Opportunities & Challenges in Disability-Related Health Care Reform Initiatives: The assumptions behind care and financing integration for the dually-eligible younger disabled
Jean McGuire, Bouvé College of Health Sciences
12:00 to 1:30 p.m., 120 Knowles
March 27, 2012
Panel Presentation: The Affordable Care Act: Constitutional Challenges and Political Implications
Kristin Madison, Wendy Parmet, School of Law, and Michael Tolley, Department of Political Science
12:00 to 1:30 p.m., 250 Dockser
March 16, 2012
Conference: Health Systems in Reform
Keynote Speaker: Lewis Morris, Chief Counsel to the Inspector General, Office of Inspector General, US Department of Health and Human Services
Faculty Roundtable
Social Change and Health in Eastern Europe: Implications for Cervical Cancer Prevention
Irina Todorova, Bouvé College of Health Sciences
12:00 to 1:30 p.m., 120 Knowles
February 13, 2012
Faculty Roundtable
Using Social Epidemiology to Understand the Roles of Law, Law Enforcement and Human Rights in the AIDS Epidemic
Leo Beletsky, School of Law and Bouvé College of Health Sciences
12:00 to 1:30 p.m., 120 Knowles
January 23, 2012
Faculty Roundtable
Legal Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic
Cara Wilking and Richard Daynard, Public Health Advocacy Institute
12:00 to 1:30 p.m., 120 Knowles
News |
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|---|---|
| May 24, 2012 |
Law Faculty Awarded Four Interdisciplnary Research Grants. |
| January 5, 2012 | In a case filed by Health Law Advocates and argued by Professor Wendy Parmet, the Sumpreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ruled that a state law blocking legal immigrants' access to the Commonwealth Care health insurance program violated the Massachusetts constitution. Find out more through thenational media coverage. |
Events |
|
|---|---|
| May 13, 2013 | Faculty Roundtable
Harnessing Interdisciplinary Perspectives to Inform Effective Health Policy and Law in HIV/AIDS Response Brook Baker, Richard Wamai, Aziza Ahmed |
| April 19, 2013 | Conference After the Storm: New Directions in Health Policy and Law Join us for a day of informative discussion and exploration with some of the nation’s leading policymakers and researchers in health policy and law. Engage in conversations that examine the new directions for health policy and law, regionally, nationally and globally in the wake of the tumultuous events of 2012, including the Supreme Court’s ACA decision and the US Presidential Election. |
| April 3, 2013 | Faculty Roundtable The Use of Breastfeeding-Related Reporting to Improve Health Care Quality Kristin Madison and Roger Edwards |
| March 26, 2013 | Faculty Roundtable Title (TBA) Helen Suh MacIntosh, Bouve College of Health Sciences |
| Febuary 15, 2013 | Faculty Roundtable Indoor tanning near campus: Student motivations and university policies Mark Gottlieb, J.D., Executive Director of The Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law Rachel Rodgers, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Counseling & Applied Educational Psychology, Bouvé College of Health Sciences Deb Franko, Ph.D., Professor and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Bouvé College of Health Sciences |
| Febuary 6, 2013 | HIV/AIDS Policy Grand Rounds Injection Drug Use and HIV: A Tale of Deadly Policy This workshop (3rd in the series) will focus on the role of drug policy as a driver of the HIV epidemic among injection drug users. Professor Leo Beletsky will be joined by guest expert, Professor Robert Heimer, Yale School of Public Health. The speakers will explore the interface of drug policy, HIV risk and human rights, with special focus on the role of law and law enforcement in fueling the epidemic in the US and Eastern Europe. |
| January 22, 2013 | Faculty Roundtable The Vitality of the Brand: Pharmaceutical Trademarks and the Material Culture of Efficacy Jeremy Green, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University |
| December 10, 2012 | Faculty Roundtable Law, Knowledge and Science: The Politics of HIV Aziza Ahmed, School of Law |
| November 28, 2012 | HIV/AIDS Policy Grand Rounds
The Cutting Edge: Male Circumcision for HIV Prevention The Program on Health Policy and Law presents interdisciplinary perspectives and questions on the history, application and current debates to combat the epidemic. Featuring professors Daniel Halperin of Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, and Richard Wamai of Northeastern University. 12:00 to 2:00 p.m., 94 Cargill Hall |
| November 19, 2012 | Faculty Roundtable
What’s Next in Health Policy and Law After the Election? |
| November 1-2, 2012 | Institute on Human Rights and the Social Determinants of Health
Co-sponsored with the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy |
| October 15, 2012 | Faculty Roundtable Optimizing the Response of Prevention: HIV Efficiency in Africa Project Richard Wamai, Department of African American Studies, and Omar Galarraga, Brown University |
| September 21, 2012 | Faculty Roundtable Collaborating for Impact: Healthy Kids, Health Futures — A Multi-Level Early Childhood Obesity Prevention Initiative Carmen Sceppa and Jessica Hoffman, Bouvé College of Health Sciences 12:00 to 1:30 p.m., 120 Knowles |
| September 11, 2012 | HIV/AIDS Policy Grand Rounds
Treatment for/plus/as Prevention The Program on Health Policy and Law presents interdisciplinary perspectives and questions on the history, application and current debates to combat the epidemic. Featuring professors Brook Baker of Northeastern University School of Law and Professor Jen Cohn, MD, of the University of Pennsylvania and Doctors without Borders |
| August 6, 2012 | Workshop
Rhode Island Overdose Death Prevention: Naloxone Access and Distribution Strategy Day
A special one-day session to learn about overdose education/naloxone distribution models and to strategize next steps in Rhode Island. Invited speakers include national leaders in overdose death prevention who will discuss successful models for overdose prevention training/naloxone distribution. Leo Beletsky, School of Law, and others. |
| July 23-24, 2012 | Workshop (by invitation) Advancing Public Health through the Law:The Role of Legal Academics Sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Public Health Law Research |
| July 18, 2012 | ACA Panel: Health Health Reform Upheld! A discussion on the Supreme Court's ACA Decision. Sponsored by the Health Law Society. 12:00 to 1:30 p.m., 240 Dockser Hall Panelists: Former Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and Wendy Parmet, Kristin Madison and Martha Davis, School of Law Presentation materials: Professor Kristin Madison: The Supreme Court Speaks: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Decision Professor Wendy Parmet: The Constitutionality of the Medicaid Expansion: The Stealth Claim |
| May 3, 2012 | Faculty Roundtable The Ethics of Social Capital and Implications for Health Patricia Illingworth, College of Social Sciences & Humanities 12:00 to 1:30 p.m., 120 Knowles |
| April 13, 2012 | Faculty Roundtable Opportunities & Challenges in Disability-Related Health Care Reform Initiatives: The assumptions behind care and financing integration for the dually-eligible younger disabled. Jean McGuire, Bouvé College of Health Sciences 12:00 to 1:30 p.m., 120 Knowles |
| March 27, 2012 | Panel Presentation The Affordable Care Act: Constitutional Challenges and Political Implications Kristin Madison, Wendy Parmet, School of Law, and Michael Tolley, Department of Political Science 12:00 to 1:30 p.m., 250 Dockser |
| March 16, 2012 | Conference: Health Systems in Reform Keynote Speaker: Lewis Morris, Chief Counsel to the Inspector General, Office of Inspector General, US Department of Health and Human Services |
| March 12, 2012 | Faculty Roundtable Social Change and Health in Eastern Europe: Implications for Cervical Cancer Prevention Irina Todorova, Bouvé College of Health Sciences 12:00 to 1:30 p.m., 120 Knowles |
| February 13, 2012 | Faculty Roundtable Using Social Epidemiology to Understand the Roles of Law, Law Enforcement and Human Rights in the AIDS Epidemic Leo Beletsky, School of Law and Bouvé College of Health Sciences 12:00 to 1:30 p.m., 120 Knowles |
| January 23, 2012 | Faculty Roundtable Legal Approaches to the Obesity Epidemic Cara Wilking and Richard Daynard, Public Health Advocacy Institute 12:00 to 1:30 p.m., 120 Knowles |
