Wendy E. Parmet, JD

Northeastern University
School of Law
400 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA
USA 02115

Biographical Sketch: Wendy E. Parmet is George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Northeastern University School of Law, where she is also Director of the Program on Health Policy and Law and the Law School’s JD/MPH program with Tufts University School of Medicine. She is the author of the Populations, Public Health, and the Law, published by Georgetown University Press in 2009 and with Professor Patricia Illingworth, Ethical Health Care, published by Prentice Hall in 2005, as well as numerous articles in medical, legal, and public policy journals on public health law, health care access, bioethics, and disability law. Professor Parmet has served as counsel of record on several major court cases involving health care access. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Health Law Advocates and Health Care for All and is also on the ABA’s AIDS Coordinating Committee. She received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1982 and her B.A. from Cornell University in 1979.

Papers:
3366.1 Advancing Public Health through Law: The George Project 4111.0 A View from Massachusetts Health Care for All