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Public Health Law’s Future Begins in the Classroom

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By Taleed El-Sabawi The use of emergency public health powers by state and local governments during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic led to intense public criticism followed by legislative attempts (include some successes) to strip state executives of this authority. What does the future hold?

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Public Health Product Hops

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Regulatory and patent exclusivity periods govern the timing of generic entry, and because market share and revenue is often quickly lost upon market entry of generic drugs, extending market exclusivity for any duration can be extremely profitable. Glenn Cohen’s Health Law Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology Workshop at HLS.

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Introduction to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

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By Roojin Habibi, Timothy Fish Hodgson, and Alicia Ely Yamin Today, as the world transitions from living in the grips of a novel coronavirus to living with an entrenched, widespread infectious disease known as COVID-19, global appreciation for the human rights implications of public health crises are once again rapidly fading from view.

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Correctional Sleep: Where Litigation Falls Short and Where Research, Policymaking are Needed

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This disturbing health crisis is insidiously ingrained in the culture of corrections and surprisingly neglected in American public health scholarship. People who are incarcerated already exhibit elevated rates of morbidity , and it is likely that the sleep deprivation associated with corrections only depresses health outcomes.

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Do No Harm: A Call for Decarceration in Hospitals

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Though strict protocol typically governs everything in hospitals, for prisoners, those rules seem to go out the window, without deliberation. Most patients with severe COVID did not present with obvious respiratory distress. This heightens the cruelty of incarceration. I knew this would not happen.

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Ethical Challenges Associated with the Protection of Pets in War

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Many governments have welcomed Ukrainian pets with or without their owners, and without documentation, rabies vaccine, and/or microchip. For example, as Ben White suggests , “to understand human displacements, past and present, we need to consider animals too.”

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Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health and Its Devastating Implications for Immigrants’ Rights

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This will include transporting pregnant women to other states to receive an abortion if they are being detained in a state where the health procedure is now illegal. As noted by several scholars, the Dobbs decision will have impacts on laws governing areas other than reproductive rights.