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12.08.20

A New Roadmap for Supporting American Families

By O’Neill Institute

This expert column was written by John T. Monahan.  Even with the prospect of new COVID-19 vaccines in 2021, it is clear the pandemic has battered, and continues to threaten, the economic and social foundations on which most Americans have built and sustained their lives. The impact of the coronavirus will almost certainly worsen over […]

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Thematic Areas: Health & Human Rights Healthcare

11.23.20

Colloquium: Post-Election Health Reform in America

By Cynthia Sun

The outcome of the 2020 Presidential election will have an enormous impact on the future of healthcare and public health reform in the United States. Will health coverage be expanded or diminished? Will Americans gain or lose access to critical health and public health services? The speakers in this session will address critical questions on health […]

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07.13.20

The Impact of the Telehealth Response for E-Prescribing Addiction Therapy Services (“TREATS”) Act

By O’Neill Institute

This blog post was written by Landon Myers. Four months after the United States began to feel the effects of COVID-19, U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) introduced the Telehealth Response for E-Prescribing Addiction Therapy Services (“TREATS”) Act. During the pandemic, policymakers and insurers have strongly embraced telehealth, or the remote provision […]

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Thematic Areas: Addiction & Public Policy Healthcare

06.01.20

The 73rd World Health Assembly and COVID-19

By Sarah Wetter

The 73rd World Health Assembly (WHA) convened on May 18-19, 2020. For the first time ever, representatives from the WHO’s 194 member-states came together virtually instead of in Geneva, Switzerland, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The meeting’s overarching focus was to chart a path toward overcoming the novel coronavirus, which has infected over 5 million […]

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Thematic Areas: Global Health Policy & Politics Health & Human Rights Healthcare

04.16.20

A Brief Reflection of the Gaps with Public Health Emergency Laws in China

By O’Neill Institute

This blog was written by Jingyi Xu, SJD Candidate at Georgetown University Law Center The widespread of COVID-19 has invoked a heated discussion of public health emergency laws in China, where the coronavirus is originally from. Recently, central government of China has made a huge decision to revise the current public health emergency laws while […]

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Thematic Areas: Healthcare Infectious Diseases Trade, Investment & Health

04.15.20

Hepatitis Policy Project Releases New Brief on Expanding Hepatitis C Screening and Treatment in Correctional Facilities

By Sonia Canzater

The O’Neill Institute’s Hepatitis Policy Project recently released its latest issue brief, Correctional Institutions Are A Critical Intervention Point For Hepatitis C Elimination, written by Senior Associate Sonia Canzater, on the integral role expanding hepatitis C virus (HCV) screening and treatment in the nation’s jails and prisons could play in the effort to eliminate HCV […]

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Thematic Areas: Healthcare Infectious Diseases

02.27.20

The difficulties in the implementation of the Right to Health in Argentina

By Sofia Bobbio

In Argentina the right to health is guaranteed in the text of the National Constitution and in the International Human Rights Treaties incorporated into our constitution. However, Argentina has faced some difficulties in the implementation of this right. Some of the biggest challenges the country has faced relate to the access to the health system, […]

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Thematic Areas: Health & Human Rights Healthcare

01.07.20

We can spare people a painful death for a few dollars a week

By Eric A. Friedman

The nature of life is that we all have to die at some point, but we don’t all have to suffer in dying. We can stave off death for only so long, but we can do far more to mitigate, if not eliminate, the pain that comes at this defining moment of our lives. Yet […]

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Thematic Areas: Global Health Policy & Politics Health & Human Rights Healthcare

12.16.19

Prevention First: A Conversation with Dr. Anand Parekh

By Johan Marulanda

The O’Neill Institute is pleased to join with Business for Impact at the McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University’s School of Nursing and Health Studies, and Georgetown University’s Global Health Initiative for a conversation with Dr. Anand K. Parekh, chief medical advisor of the Bipartisan Policy Center. In Prevention First, Anand K. Parekh, MD, MPH, […]

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11.07.19

Policy Briefing: Unregulated Health Research Using Mobile Devices

By Johan Marulanda

Recommendations from a study funded by NIH: Principal Investigators Mark A. Rothstein, University of Louisville John T. Wilbanks, Sage Bionetworks Citizen scientists and other researchers not subject to the federal research regulations often perform health research using smartphones and other mobile devices. Although much of this research is promising, there are concerns about informed consent, […]

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Thematic Areas: Healthcare Trade, Investment & Health
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