Are individuals responsible for their own health? Or does the health of individuals depend upon the health of their communities? The Program on Health Policy and Law's annual conference on Friday, April 15, will bring together keynote speakers Dean Sandro Galea of Boston University of Public Health, Professor Jon Hanson of Harvard Law School, and legal and public health scholars and practitioners from across the country to discuss and chart the role of individual choice and public action in response to these - and many more - public health debates. Join us!

PHAI Urges HUD to Expand Proposed Smoke-free Public Housing Rule to All HUD-Funded Housing

The law school's Public Health Advocacy Institute has submitted comments to a proposed rule by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to make its public housing smoke-free.

In January, Professor Kristin Madison presented on "Wellness Incentives, the ADA and GINA" and Professor Wendy Parmet spoke about "Gun Control and Public Health Law" at the fourth annual Health Law Year in P/Review at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.

Professor Martha Davis is spending this year as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the Raoul Wallenberg Institute at Lund University in Lund, Sweden. She is researching municipal policies relating to the human right to water and sanitation, and has delivered talks at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and the University of Regensburg in Germany, among others.

Ebola Crisis Passes, but Questions on Quarantines Persist  

High-Level UN Initiative on Global Public Health Gap Holds Landmark Hearing

"There is a need for a system supporting countries to amend their laws in order to be able to issue compulsory licenses," Professor Brook Baker tells IP-Watch.  (more)

Milk Wanted

On Gimlet Media's Reply All, Professor Kara Swanson discusses the surprising history of breast milk in the United States.  (more)

Are Safe Injection Facilities for Heroin Users a Step in the Right Direction?

"... the political environment - from federal down to the local levels - has never been more favorable to innovations like safe injection facilities," Professor Leo Beletsky tells news@Northeastern.  (more)