Wendy E. Parmet is an American legal analyst, author, professor of law at Northeastern University, and faculty director for its Center for Health Policy and Law.[1]

Career

Parmet is a distinguished professor of law at Northeastern University College of Social Sciences and Humanities and School of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.[2] Her field of academics is focused on public health law,[3] with other focuses in health law and disability law.[4] She graduated from Harvard University with a Juris Doctor in 1982.[5]

She was co-counsel for the plaintiff party in Bragdon v. Abbott (1998),[5] where a person was denied healthcare treatment due to having HIV. Parmet was active in advocacy against discrimination and quarantine of those with AIDS during the height of the epidemic in the 1980s.[6]

In 2005, Parmet co-authored Ethical Health Care with Patricia Illingworth.[7] In 2009, she published her first solo book, Populations, Public Health, and the Law. In 2012, she co-authored Debates on U.S. health care. In 2017, she once again collaborated with Illingworth to publish The Health of Newcomers.[8] In 2023, she published another book, Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts, and Public Health.[9]

Political opinions

Parmet was active in advocacy during the COVID-19 pandemic; she stated that she supported vaccine mandates for mitigation of the disease's spread.[10] She was also pro-mask mandate and was critical of the injunction against a national mask mandate filed by Judge Kathryn Kimball in May of 2021.[11] She is pro-choice,[12] and has voiced concerns about the restriction of abortion as precedent for the banning of other forms of contraceptives.[13]

She has encouraged courts to utilise population health-based thinking in its legal analysis as a practical approach to public wellness.[14]

Personal life

She is the daughter of famed American historian and biographer Herbert Parmet and his wife Joan Kronish. She is married to Ronald Lanoue,[15] and has two children.[16] She currently resides in Massachusetts.

Bibliography

Books

Academic papers (selected works)

References

  1. ^ "NEJM Interview: Prof. Wendy Parmet on the decision to overturn parts of a Florida law regulating physician speech about firearms. | NEJM Interviews Podcast". Scribd. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  2. ^ "Northeastern University School of Law". www.americanbar.org. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  3. ^ "Video: LWVW Opening Meeting with guest speaker Professor Wendy Parmet". MyLO. 2022-12-05. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  4. ^ "Wendy E. Parmet, J.D. | Public Health Law Research". phlr.org. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  5. ^ a b "Wendy Parmet". College of Social Sciences and Humanities. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  6. ^ Parmet, Wendy (1985-01-01). "AIDS and Quarantine: The Revival of an Archaic Doctrine". Hofstra Law Review. 14 (1).
  7. ^ Illingworth, Patricia; Parmet, Wendy E. (2017-10-03). The Ethical Obligations of Health Care Institutions. Routledge. pp. 296–386. doi:10.4324/9781351219945-5. ISBN 978-1-351-21994-5.
  8. ^ Illingworth, Patricia; Parmet, Wendy E. (2020-05-22). The Health of Newcomers. doi:10.18574/nyu/9780814789216.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-8147-6082-6.
  9. ^ Parmet, Wendy E. (2023-05-31). Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts, and Public Health (1 ed.). Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781009093835. ISBN 978-1-009-09383-5. S2CID 258805235.
  10. ^ Parmet, Wendy (2022-01-06). "Opinion | The Government's Ability to Control the Pandemic Is at Stake". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  11. ^ Parmet, Wendy E. (12 May 2022). "Who Should Decide the Nation's Pandemic Response?". news.bloomberglaw.com. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  12. ^ Parmet, Wendy (2015). "Free Speech and the Regulation of Reproductive Health". Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics. 43 (1): 6–8. doi:10.1111/jlme.12191. ISSN 1073-1105. PMID 25846034. S2CID 32935679.
  13. ^ Bendix, Aria (2022-06-24). "Birth control restrictions could follow abortion bans, experts say". NBC News. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  14. ^ Player, Candice T. (2014). "Public assistance, drug testing, and the law: the limits of population-based legal analysis". American Journal of Law & Medicine. 40 (1): 26–84. doi:10.1177/009885881404000102. ISSN 0098-8588. PMID 24844042. S2CID 21401102.
  15. ^ "Wendy Parmet Becomes Bride of Ronald Lanoue". North Adams Transcript. 22 Dec 1979. p. 12. Retrieved 19 Aug 2023.
  16. ^ "HERBERT PARMET Obituary (2017) - Newton, MA - Boston Globe". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
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