Webinar for National Public Health Week Featuring Authors of COVID-19 Policy Playbook: Legal Recommendations for a Safer, More Equitable Future
The American Public Health Association (APHA) and Public Health Law Watch hosted a virtual panel during National Public Health Week 2021, featuring authors of the recently released COVID-19 Policy Playbook: Legal Recommendations for a Safer, More Equitable Future.
Featuring:
Dr. Georges C. Benjamin, Executive Director, American Public Health Association, will moderate a discussion with:
Scott Burris, Professor of Law, Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research
Lance Gable, Associate Professor of Law, Wayne State University
Wendy Parmet, Professor of Law, Northeastern University
Sidney D. Watson, Professor, Saint Louis University School of Law, Director, Center for Health Law Studies, Center for International and Comparative Law
Ruqaiijah Yearby, Saint Louis University School of Law
Panelists discussed their analyses and recommendations from the report on how policymakers can better respond to COVID-19 and prepare for future pandemics, from strengthening the public health system; expanding access to health care, including Medicaid; and reimagining how the laws of work, commerce and movement could better protect the American people in the recovery and beyond.
The panel focused on how to correct what went wrong in the current crisis, and how to get ahead of the next one by addressing the deep inequities that predated COVID, as well as the confluence of growing socio-economic vulnerabilities that could make the next pandemic even more devastating than our current one.
The COVID-19 Policy Playbook authors were convened by Public Health Law Watch, located at the Center for Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law. They are further sponsored by the American Public Health Association and the de Beaumont Foundation.