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Wendy E. Parmet

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Wendy E. Parmet
Occupation(s)Professor of law, legal analyst, author
SpouseRonald Lanoue
Children2
Parent(s)Herbert Parmet, Joan Kronish
Academic background
Alma materHarvard University (1982)
Academic work
DisciplinePublic health law
InstitutionsNortheastern University

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

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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]

She has written for many publications, such as The Washington Post,[10] Health Affairs,[11] Harvard Health Blog,[12] Scientific American,[13] Boston Law Review,[14] The Atlantic,[15] California Health Care Foundation,[16] Bloomberg Law,[17] Cambridge University Press,[18] Brink News,[19] and The New York Times.[20] She has also published papers in dozens of academic and university journals.

Political opinions

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Parmet was active in advocacy during the COVID-19 pandemic; she stated that she supported vaccine mandates for mitigation of the disease's spread.[20] 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.[17] She is pro-choice,[21] and has voiced concerns about the restriction of abortion as precedent for the banning of other forms of contraceptives.[22]

She has encouraged courts to utilise population health-based thinking in its legal analysis as a practical approach to public wellness.[23]

Personal life

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She is the daughter of famed American historian and biographer Herbert Parmet and his wife Joan Kronish. She is married to Ronald Lanoue,[24] and has two children.[25] She currently resides in Massachusetts.

Bibliography

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Books

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  • Illingworth, Patricia; Parmet, Wendy E. (2005). Ethical Health Care. Routledge. pp. 296–386. doi:10.4324/9781351219945-5. ISBN 978-1-351-21994-5.
  • Parmet, Wendy E. (2009). Populations, Public Health, and the Law (1st ed.). Georgetown University Press. ISBN 978-1-58901-261-5. JSTOR j.ctt2tt5pj.
  • Kronenfeld, Jennie J.; Parmet, Wendy E.; Zezza, Mark A., eds. (2012). Debates on U.S. health care. A SAGE reference publication. Los Angeles, Calif.: SAGE. ISBN 978-1-4129-9602-0.
  • Illingworth, Patricia; Parmet, Wendy E. (2017). "The Health of Newcomers". NYU Press. doi:10.18574/nyu/9780814789216.001.0001. ISBN 978-0-8147-8921-6.
  • 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.

Academic papers (selected works)

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References

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  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 E. (2021-04-12). "Perspective | Conservative courts say they can't set health policy — and then they do it anyway". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  11. ^ "Wendy E. Parmet". Health Affairs. doi:10.1377/hauthor20150212.848916 (inactive 31 January 2024). Retrieved 19 Aug 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2024 (link)
  12. ^ Beletsky, Leo; Ryan, Elizabeth J.; Parmet, Wendy E. (2018-01-24). "Involuntary treatment for substance use disorder: A misguided response to the opioid crisis". Harvard Health. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  13. ^ "Stories by Wendy E. Parmet". Scientific American. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  14. ^ "Parmet | Law Review". www.bu.edu. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  15. ^ Parmet, Wendy E. "Wendy E. Parmet". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  16. ^ "Wendy E. Parmet". California Health Care Foundation. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  17. ^ a b Parmet, Wendy E. (12 May 2022). "Who Should Decide the Nation's Pandemic Response?". news.bloomberglaw.com. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  18. ^ Parmet, Wendy E. (2023-04-05). "How Courts Make Us Sick". Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  19. ^ Parmet, Wendy E. (12 Nov 2014). "Quarantines are a Blunt Instrument in the Fight Against Ebola". BRINK – Conversations and Insights on Global Business. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  20. ^ a b 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.
  21. ^ 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.
  22. ^ Bendix, Aria (2022-06-24). "Birth control restrictions could follow abortion bans, experts say". NBC News. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
  23. ^ 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.
  24. ^ "Wendy Parmet Becomes Bride of Ronald Lanoue". North Adams Transcript. 22 Dec 1979. p. 12. Retrieved 19 Aug 2023.
  25. ^ "HERBERT PARMET Obituary (2017) - Newton, MA - Boston Globe". Legacy.com. Retrieved 2023-08-19.
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