The Week in Health Law

The Week in Health Law


Latest Episodes

241. Safety Net Support for Children and Families.
July 26, 2021

Sarah de Guia of ChangeLab Solutions is joined by Sharon Terman from legal aid at work, and Danilo Trisi from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The participants have a broad-ranging discussion about the safety net, what the Biden administration

240. State Efforts to Restrict Public Health Powers.
June 22, 2021

Professor Wendy Parmet, Northeastern University School of Law, Lori Tremmel Freeman is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), and Jill Krueger, the director of the Network for Public Law

239. International Lessons Learned.
June 17, 2021

I am joined by Professor Anniek de Ruijter Professor of European Law at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Professor Andrew Noymer, University of California, Irvine, and Professor Nils Hoppe, the Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences at

238. Global Vaccine Sharing.
June 14, 2021

Jorge Contreras, Professor of Law, University of Utah, Brook Baker, Professor of Law, Northeastern University, and Ana Santos Rutschman, Professor of Law, Saint Louis University discuss vaccine access, What are the technical obstacles to increasing vaccin

237. The Shadow Docket.
June 11, 2021

Professor Scott Burris, Temple Law School, Professor Wendy Parmet, Northeastern University School of Law, and Professor Lance Gable, Wayne State College of Law discuss the shadow docket, the hundreds of cases (emergency orders and summary decisions) dec

236. CDC as an Independent Agency.
June 10, 2021

Scott Burris, Professor of Law, Temple Law School, Christopher Robertson, Professor of Law, Boston University School of Law, and Gene Matthews, Network for Public Health Law discuss the current proposals to increase the independence of public health agenc

235. A Safer, More Equitable Future.
April 08, 2021

This is a special episode of TWIHL that introduces our new report, Volume II of our COViD-19 Policy Playbook titled, Legal Recommendations for a Safer, More Equitable Future. Support for this report was generously provided by the de Beaumont Foundation, t

234. Privatizing Public Health.
March 23, 2021

Can private companies effectively serve public health functions? A panel discussion sponsored by thePetrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethicsat Harvard Law School and theEdmond J. Safra Center for Ethicsat Harvard Universi

233. George #covidlawbriefing. A Pandemic Meets a Housing Crisis.
March 16, 2021

A Pandemic Meets a Housing Crisis. Sarah de Guia and Gregory Miao of ChangeLab Solutions, along with Courtney Lauren Anderson of Georgia State University, discuss how the pre-existing housing crisis has been exacerbated by its compounding eviction and pub

232. George #covidlawbriefing. Data Policies and Governance.
March 10, 2021

Improving Data Collection and Management. Nicolas Terry of Indiana University, Wendy Parmet of Northeastern University, and Jessica L. Roberts of the University of Houston discuss the unique challenges created by the lack of public health data available t