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Amid confusion over federal vaccine recommendations, states become laboratories of public health

Public health law has long tilted toward the states. “If there was a public health issue, we’d say it’s for the states,” Wendy Parmet of Northeastern University explained.

While attacks on vaccines at the state level and in litigation have been ongoing, the growing federal attacks led by Kennedy have made this a “multipronged attack” on vaccine infrastructure, said Wendy Parmet, co-director of Northeastern University law school’s Center for Health Policy and Law.

The New Republic

Trump’s Decapitation of CDC Takes Darker Turn—and Hands Dems a Weapon

First, says Wendy Parmet, a health policy professor at Northeastern University, governors can scale up clinic systems to make it easier for people to get vaccines, should Trump’s government keep making that harder.

PBS NewsHour

Can RFK Jr. take COVID vaccines off the market? Here’s what vaccine law experts say

Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University law school’s Center for Health Policy and Law, said that if the vaccine manufacturers contested a license revocation, she expected they would have a strong case, given the reams of vaccine safety data and post-market studies of COVID-19 vaccine use around the world.

Bloomberg Law

Abortion Rule’s Demise Spells Trouble for HHS Privacy Role

The doctrine “almost invites the kind of decision that Judge Kacsmaryk made,” said Wendy Parmet, faculty director of Northeastern University School of Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law.

Bloomberg Law

RFK Jr. mRNA Cuts Threaten Vaccine Development, Crisis Response

“This is yet another one among many actions that have been taken that are undermining both the present and the potential future of vaccine infrastructure and availability,” said Wendy Parmet, director of Northeastern University School of Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law. “We’re playing with fire.”

STAT News

Supreme Court to hear challenge to ACA rule requiring free preventive care, cancer screenings

The case is “one of the latest in a series of litigation attacks brought against various provisions of the Affordable Care Act,” said Wendy Parmet, a constitutional law scholar at Northeastern University. “It’s surprising because Trump is not a fan of the Affordable Care Act and vowed to replace the Affordable Care Act in his […]

Kennedy sends mixed vaccine messages amid Texas measles outbreak

Wendy Parmet, the director of the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law, described Kennedy’s op-ed as “mealy-mouthed advice.”

STAT News

On measles outbreak, the Trump administration’s messaging strikes some as off-key

“You would have imagined any other secretary of HHS from the last 60 years saying, ‘This is why we recommend the vaccinations, and we’re supporting local communities with vaccination, and we encourage everyone to talk to their doctors about vaccination and to listen to their local health officials,’” said Wendy Parmet, the director of the […]

Al Jazeera

Could RFK Jr, Trump’s presumptive health secretary, ban vaccines?

Wendy Parmet, a Northeastern University law professor and the director of the law school’s Center for Health Policy and Law, said RFK Jr could not ban vaccines “by fiat”, or with one order or decree.

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Florida’s plan to phase out childhood vaccination mandates upends decades of public health policy, Northeastern experts say

Florida would be the first state to end childhood vaccine mandates. Will the federal government follow suit?

Secret service agents pushing Trump to the ground at his rally during his assassination attempt. One agent is in motion, hand on their gun.

Is joking about Trump’s assassination attempt protected speech? You might not get charged, but you could lose your job, experts say

You might not get jail time for it, but there are some limitations when it comes to this, said Northeastern law experts.

Silhouette of a person's hands filling a vaccine syringe.

Should doctors who are public officials have the right to spread medical misinformation to the general public?

Northeastern researchers make their case for professional censure of physician officials who go against professional medical standards.

A pack of Mifepristone abortion pill tablets.

The Supreme Court is taking up the abortion pill. Here’s one way the justices could rule on access

The case would mark the first major abortion decision since the high court overturned Roe v. Wade last year.

Abortion rights demonstrators outside of the Texas state capitol, one carrying a blue circular sign that says 'keep abortion legal' on it in white text

Texas court ‘slams the door on doctors’ in Kate Cox abortion case, legal scholar says

The ruling leaves physicians in the dark about how to provide emergency care to people whose pregnancies health risks, legal expert says.

A stack of Salus Populi 2023 Judicial Education Program booklets

The verdict is in: Northeastern program helps judges better understand the forces that affect people’s health

Northeastern professors collaborate to create a program that aims to educate judges about how the social determinants of health can affect cases.

Should Biden ignore a Texas judge’s ruling on the abortion pill?

Some Democrat lawmakers have urged President Joe Biden to simply ignore the decision by U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk. What would the consequences of doing so be in an already deeply divided nation? Northeastern experts weigh in.

How can the US fix legal flaws exposed by COVID-19?

Wall off the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from politics, and let the agency focus on the core mission of public health, says law professor Wendy Parmet.

Global population, climate, and technology are changing human health. Here’s what we can do about it.

“We see how much the world is changing,” Northeastern student and 2020 Rhodes Scholar Kritika Singh told an audience of students, researchers, clinicians, and industry experts on Friday. “People, planet, and technology need to change along with it in order to have a healthier and safer world.”

How long can China’s mass quarantine stave off a coronavirus pandemic?

Though the effort to head off a pandemic is centered in China now, the rest of the world cannot close itself off forever, said speakers at a panel on Northeastern’s Boston campus Wednesday convened to discuss the outbreak.

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