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]
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]
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
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.
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.
ISBN978-1-4129-9602-0.
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]
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]
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
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.
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.
ISBN978-1-4129-9602-0.