Events 2019-2020 Events

Lunch and Learn Speaker Event 
Featuring
Jason Rifkin ’03
President/CEO, PhageNova Bio, Inc. (New York, New York)
Focus: IP/early stage biotechnology

Robert Warren ’03
Chief Operation Officer and Chief Financial Officer, AZTherapies, Inc. (Boston)
Focus: disruptive technology and clinical stage pharmaceuticals/biotechnology

Film Screening
Bending the Arc

Dr. Paul Farmer, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, activist Ophelia Dahl, Todd McCormack, and investor Thomas White began a movement in the 1980s that changed global health forever. Reaching far beyond the issue of health care, Bending the Arc hows how moral imagination, strategy, and sheer will together can change the trajectory of the world, bending the arc of the moral universe closer to justice.

Co-sponsored by Northeastern's Partners in Health Engage, the School of Law's Health Law Society and Center for Health Policy and L

Lunch and Learn Speaker Event 
Featuring
Michelle Anderson
Attorney, ZwillGen, (Boston)
Focus: privacy, security and consumer protection

Health Law Roundtable
Nicole Huberfeld
Professor of Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights, School of Public Health
Professor of Law, School of Law, Boston University

Lunch and Learn Speaker Event 
Featuring
Luke Blackadar ’14
Director of Legal Services, Arts & Business Counsel of Greater Boston (formerly Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts)
Focus: intellectual property protection and affordable legal services for the arts and business communities

Health Law Roundtable
Aziza Ahmed
Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
Law, Public Health, and Social Movements: How Lawyers and Activists Changed the CDC Definition of AIDS

Annual Health Law Lecture
#JusticeforJane: What Happened and What Comes Next in the Fight for Abortion Access

Featuring the ACLU’s Brigitte Amiri ’99, lead attorney fighting the Trump administration’s policy preventing young immigrant women from having abortions.

Brigitte Amiri ’99, deputy director of the Reproductive Freedom Project at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), will deliver this year’s Annual Lecture in Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law.

Over the past year, Amiri has been at the center of a national, high-profile lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s policy of preventing young immigrant women from having abortions. Last fall, Amiri successfully argued on behalf of a 17-year-old woman, Jane Doe, who was able to get abortion care after an appeals court in Washington, DC, issued a decision that cleared the way. The fight continues with a class action case against the Department of Health and Human Services so that all Jane Does would have this same right.

Community Forum on Question 1
The Center for Health Policy and Law hosted a Community Forum on Question 1 (mandatory nurse staffing ratios) at the School of Law. Question 1 is a ballot measure for the 2018 Election in Massachusetts. 

This proposed law would limit how many patients could be assigned to each registered nurse in Massachusetts hospitals and certain other health care facilities. The maximum number of patients per registered nurse would vary by type of unit and level of care.

Health Law Roundtable
Claudia Haupt, Associate Professor of Law and Political Science, Northeastern University 
Topic: Pregnancy crisis centers and speech regulation 

Faculty Roundtable
12:00 - 1:30PM | 120 Knowles Conference Room 
Supply and demand of the health professional workforce: Evidence of change...implications for the future
David Zgarrick, Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs and Professor of Pharmacy, Bouvé  College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University 

Annual Health Law Lecture
Making Good Health Policy by Practicing Good Health Law
12:00 - 1:30 PM | 240 Dockser Hall 

Featuring Stephen Rosenfeld, Health Care Attorney and Advocate 

Faculty Roundtable
12:00 - 1:30PM | 120 Knowles Conference Room 
Lunch will be served

Where could/should we go with community benefit standards in Massachusetts: Hospitals, Health Plans, and Physician Groups?
Dr. Paul Hattis, Associate Professor of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts School of Medicine

RSVP to Jennifer Huer

Faculty Roundtable
12:00 - 1:30PM | 120 Knowles Conference Room 
Lunch will be served

Topic: Advanced Directives and Dementia
Stephen Latham, Director, Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, Yale University 

Health Reform: What's Next?
12:00 - 1:30 PM | 250 Dockser | School of Law 
A town hall meeting to hear about and discuss current events surrounding health reform in the U.S.

Moderator:
Wendy E. Parmet, Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Interdisciplinary Education and Research Support, Professor of Public Policy and Urbain Affairs, Northeastern University

Panelists:
Michael Dukakis, Distinguished Professor of Political Science, Northeastern University 
Timothy Hoff, Professor of Management, Healthcare Systems, and Health Policy, Northeastern University
Kristin Madison, Professor of Law and Health Sciences, Northeastern University 
Jean McGuire, Professor of Practice in Health Sciences, Northeastern University 
Meredith Munn Wheeler, State Advocacy Manager, Community Catalyst

Co-sponsored by the Health Law Society 

Annual Health Law Conference 
Between Complacency & Panic: Legal, Ethical & Policy Responses to Emerging Infectious Diseases
Keynote: Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health 

Keynote (morning sessions) are free and open to the public! 
Registration is required for both morning session and full day attendees. 

Department of Health Sciences Speaker Series 
Timothy Hoff, Professor of Management, Healthcare Systems, and Health Policy, D'Amore-McKim School of Business and School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University  
Retail Rhetoric, Corporate Care, and the Lowered Expectations of Today's Health Care
3:00-5:00 PM | Curry Student Center, Room 340 

All are invited, but an RSVP is requested.

MA Prescription Monitoring Program (PMP) and the Opioid Epidemic: Stakeholder Perspectives
5:30 - 7PM | Moot Court Room, 160 Dockser | Law School 
Join us for a community presentation, followed by an interactive discussion. Light refreshments will be served. 

In fulfillment of their capstone projects, an interdisciplinary team of Northeastern University students has conducted two dozen ethnographic interviews with prescribers, pharmacists, law enforcement, regulators, and community representatives in Massachusetts. This work is part of a larger study Facing the Opioid Epidemic: Assessing and Responding to Prescription and Illicit Opioid Use and Misuse in Five New England States—a collaboration between Tufts, Northeastern, and Brandies Universities. It is funded by a Pilot Study Grant from Tufts Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). 

Presenters: 

Leo Beletsky, Associate Professor of Law and Health Sciences 
Sarah Seymour, candidate for BS in Behavioral Neuroscience
Lane Bandanza, candidate for BS in Health Sciences/Masters in Public Health in Urban Health 
Erin Crocker, candidate for Masters of Public Health in Urban Health 
Mina Hong, candidate for Masters in Publich Health in Urban Health 
Allison Morgan, candidate for BS in Health Sciences 

Free and open to the public!

Faculty Roundtable
Location: 308 International Village (INV)
Pushing the Safety Culture Agenda in the Construction Industry: A Systematic Approach or Another Way to Blame the Worker?
Jack Dennerlein, Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Movement & Rehabilitation Science, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University 

Co-hosted by the Institute on Urban Health Research and Practice (IUHRP)

RSVP to Antoinette Devlin 

Ethics in Healthcare: The Ever-Evolving Definition
4-6:30 PM | Northeastern University Charlotte Campus 
Join Northeastern’s Charlotte Campus for the upcoming Local Leaders Global Impact series and hear from Northeastern alum, Alan Sauber, Premier’s Chief Ethics & Compliance Officer (MBA '88) and Northeastern Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law, Wendy Parmet, about the current state of ethics in healthcare and what the future holds. 

Program will be followed by a networking reception. For more information and to register, please visit the event page. 

Sponsored by Northeastern University Charlotte and the Office of Alumni Relations.

Beyond Traditional Paths - Exploring Alternative Career Opportunities 
12:00-1:30 PM | 230 Dockser | Law School 

Please join us for an insightful look into alternative career opportunities.  Our panel of NUSL alums will share insights on their diverse and rewarding careers and how a legal education meaningfully enhances their roles  They will identify steps to begin your exploration and suggest strategies for finding Co-op and post-graduate opportunities beyond traditional paths.

Panelists:
Scott Bell ’09, Senior Analyst, Financial Industry Regulatory Agency (FINRA), Washington DC
Caitriona Fitzgerald ’08, Chief Technology Officer and Policy Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), Boston, MA
Nereyda Garcia ’88, Global Head, Ethics and Compliance, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA
Sean Quinn ’15, Assistant Vice President of Privacy Risk Management, LPL Financial, Charlotte NC
Alyssa Vangeli ’10, Associate Director, Policy & Government Relations, Heath Care For All, Boston, MA

Lunch will be provided. 

For more information, contact Rhonda Rittenberg, Director of Employer Outreach for Alternative Markets

Networking at the Intersection of Law and Health Care
6:00-8:00 PM | 240 Dockser | Law School 
The event will consist of a panel of professionals working in the field of health law and policy, followed by a networking reception. Refreshments will be provided. All are welcome!
Panelists include professionals from: Partner’s Healthcare, Ropes and Gray, Boston Public Health Commission, AGO Health Care Division, DLA Piper. 

Sponsored by the Health Law Society and the Center for Health Policy and Law 

An RSVP is appreciated. 

WGSS Annual Symposium 
No Turning Back: The Past, Present, & Future of Reproductive Justice
The Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program celebrates Women's History month with a day-long symposium focusing reproductive justice and featuring panels of speakers in dialogue with one another and their audience. 

Co-sponosored by Northeastern University School of Law and The Center for Health Policy and Law 

Event is free but registration is required.

Wine Reception & Book-signing -- The Health of Newcomers: Immigration, Health Policy, and the Case for Global Solidarity
5:30 - 7:00 PM | Law Library, 4th Fl.
Join authors Patricia Illingworth and Wendy Parmet as they discuss their new book and its relevance to current legal and policy issues.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.

Co-sponsored by The Center for Health Policy and Law, NUSL Law Library, NEU Ethics Institute, and The Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE)

Questions: Email Jennifer Huer

Faculty Roundtable
Considering a Zika Virus Human Challenge Trial: Lessons and Questions on Consent, Risk, and Social Value
Holly Lynch , Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School 
RSVP to Jennifer Huer

Faculty Roundtable*
What a Public Health Law Approach Means for 2nd Amendment Rights
Michael R. Ulrich, Assistant Professor of Health Law, Policy, & Management, Center for Health Law, Ethics, & Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health
RSVP to Jennifer Huer 

Faculty Roundtable*
Turning Patients into Consumers:  A View from the Trenches of Patient Care.
Timothy Hoff, Joint Professor of Management, Healthcare Systems and Health Policy, D’Amore-McKim School of Business and Northeastern School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
RSVP to Jennifer Huer

Annual Health Law Lecture
Public Health 3.0: Upgrading Public Health in Boston
Monica Valdes Lupi, Executive Director, Boston Public Health Commission

Faculty Roundtable*
Managing Off Label Drug Use by Changing Incentives
Marc Rodwin, Professor, Suffolk University Law School
RSVP to Claudia Zickell 

2016 Public Health Law Conference 
Lead, Connect, Innovate: Strategies for Achieving Health Equity
Washington, DC
Professor Wendy Parmet will provide an Opening Plenary, discussing “Current Challenges, Future Opportunities.” Wendy will also be joined by Lorianne Sainsbury-Wong, Litigation Director, Health Law Advocates, in discussing “Immigration and Health: Law, Policy and Ethics.”

Faculty Roundtable*
The culture wars: is the safety culture agenda in the construction industry blaming the worker or the system?
Jack Dennerlein, Professor, Department of Physical Therapy, Movement and Rehabilitation Science, Bouvé College of Health Sciences, 
RSVP to Claudia Zickell 

Faculty Roundtable
A Trojan Horse? How an Expanding First Amendment Threatens the Entire FDA  and Much of the Modern Regulatory State
Christopher Robertson, James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona

Health Law Conference
Individual Choice v. Collective Destiny: The Future of Public Health
Keynote Speaker: Jon Hanson, Alfred Smart Professor of Law, Director, Project on Law and Mind Sciences Harvard Law School

Faculty Roundtable
Paying for Population Health: Possibilities and Perils in Healthcare Industry Investments
Jean McGuire, Bouvé College of Health Sciences

Faculty Roundtable
Utilizing an Urban Health Framework to Guide Policy Development
Shan Mohammed, Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Northeastern University

Faculty Roundtable
Deciding Who Decides: Legal and Medical Paternalism in Reproductive Medicine
Kara Swanson, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law

Faculty Roundtable
A Brief Overview of NEU Sponsored Research Culture: An Informal Discussion
Charles Storey, Bouvé College of Health Sciences

Faculty Roundtable
Making People Healthier by Suing Corporate Miscreants
Richard Daynard, University Distinguished Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
Andrew Rainer, Litigation Director, Public Health Advocacy Institute

Faculty Roundtable
The Impact of Damages Caps on Medical Malpractice Insurance Premiums
Kathryn Zeller, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law

Annual Lecture in Health Policy and Law
The New Jane Crow: Reproduction, Incarceration and The Collateral Damage on Children and Families
Michele Bratcher Goodwin, Chancellor's Professor of Law and Director, Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy, University of California, Irvine School of Law

Faculty Roundtable
Employer Wellness Incentives, Disability and Coerced Disclosure
Kristin Madison, Professor of Law and Health Sciences

Faculty Roundtable
The Domestic Violence Institute: Practice and Partnership (Current Work, Collaboration and Plans for the future)
Margo Lindauer, Visiting Clinical Professor and Director of the Domestic Violence Institute, Northeastern University School of Law

Faculty Roundtable
Did Medicare Part D improve national trends in health outcomes or medical care utilization?
Becky Briesacher, Associate Professor, Department of Pharmacy and Health Systems Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Northeastern University

Symposium Honoring Professor Wendy Parmet’s Populations, Public Health, and the Law

Faculty Roundtable
Firearms and Suicide
Matthew Miller, Director of Undergraduate Health Sciences Program, Bouvé College of Health Sciences
Dr. 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. Dr. Miller’s work has contributed to the empirical evidence supporting the observation that suicide risk for individuals and suicide rates for populations can be greatly reduced by reducing access to firearms and other highly lethal suicide methods, even in the absence changes in underlying psychiatric illness or even suicidal behavior. In addition to empirical work in injury prevention, Dr. Miller’s scholarship includes work that focuses on the fundamental and often unrecognized tension between research and therapy in clinical trials. Dr. Miller is Assistant Editor of the journal Injury Epidemiology and a recipient of the Excellence in Science Award from the American Public Health Association.
Time: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

Faculty Roundtable
Do Hospitals Benefit their Communities? Empirical, Legal, and Policy Considerations
Gary Young, Professor of Strategic Management and Healthcare Systems and Director, Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research, Northeastern University.

Faculty Roundtable
Advancing Global Health Through a Treaty on Antimicrobial Resistance
Kevin Outterson, Professor of Health Law, Bioethics & Human Rights, Boston University School of Law
Time: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

An Afternoon with Steven Brill
Steven Brill has written for The New Yorker, Time and The New York Times Magazine. A graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, he founded and ran Court TV, The American Lawyer magazine, 10 regional legal newspapers and Brill’s Content magazine. Brill was the author of Time’s March 4, 2013, special report “Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us,” for which he won the 2014 National Magazine Award for Public Service. Brill also teaches journalism at Yale, where he founded the Yale Journalism Initiative to encourage and enable talented young people to become journalists. Following the presentation, there will be a book signing. Steven Brill's new book America’s Bitter Pill will be available for purchase.
Time: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

Faculty Roundtable
Targeting Leishmaniasis in Kenya: An integrated community interventional-evaluative model for neglected disease in East Pokot district, Kenya
Richard Wamai, Assistant Professor of African American Studies, Northeastern University
Time: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m. 

Public Health Law Practice Lecture 
Featuring Donna Levin '78, National Director, Network for Public Health Law

Donna Levin '78 is national director for the Network for Public Health Law. She previously served as general counsel for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. The Network provides assistance and resources to public health lawyers and officials on legal issues related to public health, including health reform, emergency preparedness, drug overdose prevention, health information privacy and food safety. More than 3,500 public health practitioners, attorneys, researchers, policy makers and others have joined the Network since it was formed in 2010 as a national initiative of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Symposium
Clashing Rights: Free Speech and Reproductive Autonomy

Faculty Roundtable 
Expanding Nurses’ Scope of Practice: Where It’s at in State Legislatures and the Trenches of Patient Care
Timothy Hoff, Associate Professor of Management and Organizational Development, Healthcare Systems and Health Policy 
Time: 12:00 to 1:00 p.m.

Faculty Roundtable 
As Health Care Reform Expands Access, Does the Health of the Public Improve?
John Auerbach, Distinguished Professor of Practice and Director of the Institute on Urban Health Research

Lecture
Public Health Practice
Lois Cornell '86, President, American Health Lawyers Association; Senior Vice President of Human Resources and General Counsel, Tufts Health Plan

Faculty Roundtable
Protest Through Reification of the System in Contemporary Health Policy Fiction
David A. Rochefort, Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Political Science

Faculty Roundtable
Charity for Health
Patricia Illingworth, Professor of Philosophy

Faculty Roundtable
Professional Dominance as a Barrier in Research Translation
Laura Senier, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Health Sciences

Faculty Roundtable 
Harnessing Interdisciplinary Perspectives to Inform Effective Health Policy and Law in HIV/AIDS Response
Aziza Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Law
Brook Baker, Professor of Law
Richard Wamai, Assistant Professor of African American Studies

Roundtable
Movements for Sexual and Reproductive Health and HIV: Critical Reflections
(by invitation only)

Conference
After the Storm: New Directions in Health Policy and Law (canceled due to Marathon Bombing)
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. 

Faculty Roundtable
The Use of Breastfeeding-Related Reporting to Improve Health Care Quality
Kristin Madison and Roger Edwards

Faculty Roundtable
Helen Suh MacIntosh, Bouve College of Health Sciences 

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   

HIV/AIDS Policy Grand Rounds
Injection Drug Use and HIV: A Tale of Deadly Policy
This workshop (3^rd 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. 

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

Faculty Roundtable
Law, Knowledge and Science: The Politics of HIV
Aziza Ahmed, School of Law

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 

Faculty Roundtable
What’s Next in Health Policy and Law After the Election? 

Institute on Human Rights and the Social Determinants of Health 
Co-sponsored with the Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy

Faculty Roundtable 
Optimizing the Response of Prevention: HIV Efficiency in Africa Project
Richard Wamai, Department of African American Studies, and Omar Galarraga, Brown University

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

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 

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.

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

ACA Panel: Health Health Reform Upheld!
A discussion on the Supreme Court's ACA Decision. Sponsored by the Health Law Society.
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

Faculty Roundtable
Patricia Illingworth, College of Social Sciences & Humanities
12:00 to 1:30 p.m., 120 Knowles

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

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

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

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

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