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Bioethics
- Mar 19, 2020 Valuable public health lessons from COVID-19
- May 13, 2019 Experts discuss mitochondrial replacement therapy and the future of U.S. policy
- Jan 8, 2019 Staying in Their Lane: Health Professionals Must Address Gun Violence [from the Hastings Bioethics Forum]
- Aug 1, 2018 Public Comment: HHS Proposed Revisions to Title X Funding Regulations
- Mar 28, 2018 Public Health Law Watch Comments on HHS Regulation Proposal: Protecting Statutory Conscience Rights
- Oct 4, 2017 Making America Healthy Again: Analyzing Trump's Take on the Social Determinants of Health [from Health Affairs Blog]
- Aug 14, 2017 Public Health and the Battle for Local Control
Climate
- Sep 5, 2020 COVID Law Briefing: Trends, Take-Aways, and Things to Think About- Summary
Disability
- Aug 4, 2020 COVID Law Briefing: Medicaid and the ACA- Summary
- Dec 2, 2019 A Delicate Balance: Proposed Regulations May Upset the Tension Between Accessibility and Privacy of Health Information
- Sep 10, 2019 Medical Deferred Action Program Still Faces Unclear Future
- Aug 12, 2019 Medicare-for-All wouldn’t be Medicare if it eliminated private insurance
- Apr 2, 2019 Trump returns Obamacare to the crosshairs and we are all in peril
- Jan 16, 2019 The Texas ACA ruling is an assault on logic
- Oct 3, 2018 The Health Impact Of The Proposed Public Charge Rules [from Health Affairs Blog]
- Mar 22, 2018 Legal Skills Through a Health Justice Lens: First-Year Northeastern Law Students Work Toward Health, Equity, and Justice for Two Oppressed Groups
- Mar 14, 2018 Medicaid Work Requirements Would Put Very Few People to Work [from philly.com]
- Jan 23, 2018 Threats to Medicaid and Community Integration for People with Disabilities
- Jan 18, 2018 Immigration and Health Care Under the Trump Administration [from Health Affairs Blog]
- Dec 8, 2017 Why is Congress not prioritizing health care for children and other vulnerable populations?
- Aug 4, 2017 Republicans Failed Because They Have No Idea What Kind of Health Care They Actually Want
- Aug 3, 2017 Can Trump Simply Stop Paying Subsidies to Insurance Companies?
Fed Legislation/Reg
Gun Violence
- Feb 12, 2020 2020 Presidential Candidates: Policies for Addressing Gun Violence
- Jan 8, 2019 Staying in Their Lane: Health Professionals Must Address Gun Violence [from the Hastings Bioethics Forum]
- Jul 19, 2018 Physicians and Firearms: Finding a Duty to Talk to Patients About Guns [from Bill of Health]
- Jun 15, 2018 Motivated by increasing numbers of "deaths of despair," the AMA adopts new policies aimed at reducing gun violence
- Mar 7, 2018 The Promising Potential of Gun Violence Protection Orders
- Jan 31, 2018 Let's Get Fewer People to Die (from Northeastern Law Magazine)
- Oct 11, 2017 Smart Gun Technology and the Potential to Save Lives
- Aug 8, 2017 Recent Study Shows Stronger Firearms Laws Associated with Fewer Fatal Shootings by Police
Health Equity
- Jul 23, 2020 COVID Law Briefing: Issues and Boundaries of Federalism- Summary
- May 11, 2020 Fighting the Coronavirus and Protecting the Unhoused
- Apr 13, 2020 Social Justice in COVID-19 Response: The Legal Issues We Have to Talk About
- Mar 19, 2020 Valuable public health lessons from COVID-19
- Aug 8, 2019 Changes to the Health Care Rights Law: proposed rule factsheet
- Jun 12, 2019 Trump administration rule would undo healthcare protections for LGBTQ patients
- Mar 19, 2019 New SNAP rule further limits food benefits for unemployed and underemployed people
- Jan 22, 2019 A caravan of migrants carrying smallpox? We’ve seen that before
- Aug 1, 2018 Public Comment: HHS Proposed Revisions to Title X Funding Regulations
- May 2, 2018 It's Time for Uncomfortable Solutions to the Opioid Epidemic [from The Fix]
- Apr 20, 2018 New Dangers For Immigrants and the Health Care System [from Health Affairs Blog]
- Mar 28, 2018 Public Health Law Watch Comments on HHS Regulation Proposal: Protecting Statutory Conscience Rights
- Mar 22, 2018 Legal Skills Through a Health Justice Lens: First-Year Northeastern Law Students Work Toward Health, Equity, and Justice for Two Oppressed Groups
- Jan 18, 2018 Immigration and Health Care Under the Trump Administration [from Health Affairs Blog]
- Oct 4, 2017 Making America Healthy Again: Analyzing Trump's Take on the Social Determinants of Health [from Health Affairs Blog]
- Aug 15, 2017 Law Enforcement, Drugs, and the 'Public Health' Approach [from The Crime Report]
Legal Epidemiology
- Jul 21, 2020 COVID Law Briefing: Impacts and Implications for US Prisons- Summary
- May 11, 2020 Fighting the Coronavirus and Protecting the Unhoused
- Mar 19, 2020 Valuable public health lessons from COVID-19
- Mar 4, 2020 Public health leaders post open letter to Pence on coronavirus response
- Mar 1, 2019 Gottlieb's threat of federal vaccine mandates: questionable legality, poor policy
- Jan 22, 2019 A caravan of migrants carrying smallpox? We’ve seen that before
- Dec 18, 2017 Minor Access to Prophylaxes in Massachusetts: STI Consent, the Mature Minor Rule, and the Definition of "Treatment"
- Nov 30, 2017 Of Mosquitoes and “Moral Convictions”: How Rolling Back the Affordable Care Act’s Contraceptive Mandate Jeopardizes Women’s and Children’s Health
Opioid/Substance
- Jul 28, 2020 COVID Law Briefing: Protecting the Vulnerable Substance Use Disorder Population During COVID-19- Summary
- Jan 31, 2020 2020 Presidential Candidates: Policies for Addressing the Opioid Overdose Crisis.
- Oct 15, 2019 On Ending Physician Health Program Bans on Opioid-Agonist Therapy
- May 31, 2019 Opioid litigation updates
- May 15, 2019 PHLW files amicus brief in opiate MDL
- Feb 22, 2019 Philadelphia’s City Council could have fought opioids by placing limits on pharma reps
- Jul 23, 2018 Reports on the Opioid Crisis are Full of Misidentified Problems and Poorly Calibrated Solutions [from Bill of Health]
- May 21, 2018 Policy Pathways to Address Provider Workforce Barriers to Buprenorphine Treatment [from American Journal of Preventive Medicine]
- May 2, 2018 It's Time for Uncomfortable Solutions to the Opioid Epidemic [from The Fix]
- Apr 11, 2018 Q&A: Holding Drugmakers Accountable for Opioid Crisis
- Feb 14, 2018 A Response to "Unintended Consequences: Medicaid and the Opioid Crisis"
- Jan 25, 2018 Involuntary Treatment for Substance Use Disorder: A Misguided Response to the Opioid Crisis [from Harvard Health Blog]
- Dec 22, 2017 Will Public Health Litigation Help to Solve the Opioid Crisis?
- Sep 21, 2017 "Graham-Cassidy" Provides Zero Funding to Address the "Opioid Crisis"
- Aug 16, 2017 The Wrong Path: Involuntary Treatment and the Opioid Crisis [from The Crime Report]
- Aug 15, 2017 Law Enforcement, Drugs, and the 'Public Health' Approach [from The Crime Report]
Public Comment
Tobacco
- May 15, 2019 PHLW files amicus brief in opiate MDL
- Aug 14, 2017 FDA Reboots Tobacco Regulation with Harm Reduction

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