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Trump Administration Revokes EMTALA Guidance, Will Review Medication Abortion Data | Health Affairs Forefront This article focuses on emergency medical care and medication abortion, but more rollbacks of access to reproductive health care are on the horizon.

Inequitable access to healthcare between richer and poorer populations was one of the biggest failures in the world’s response to COVID. To address this issue for the next health crisis, the FNIH and O’Neill Institute brought together global experts to examine how to incorporate existing equity models into a pandemic preparedness agreement. Learn more about this initiative in a commentary in Health Affairs Forefront: https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/advancing-equity-pandemic-treaty

To address the disparities in equitable access exposed by , the must include metrics and mechanisms that directly impact , write Lawrence Gostin, Foundation for the National Institutes of Health's Kevin A. Klock, Katherine F. Ginsbach, Sam F. Halabi, Taylor Hall-Debnam, Janelle Lewis, Vanessa S. Perlman, and Katie Robinson.

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Advancing Equity In The Pandemic Treaty | Health Affairs Forefront The adoption of a Pandemic Treaty would be truly historic. Yet, the test of the agreement will be whether it can achieve fairer allocation of lifesaving medical products and achieve a healthier, more equitable world.

“International mechanisms failed to achieve equitable distribution of —prolonging and deepening the pandemic,” argue Matthew Kavanagh and Renu Singh.

In Global Policy, they reflect on the factors that drove inequity in the global response.

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Vaccine politics: Law and inequality in the pandemic response to COVID‐19 International mechanisms failed to achieve equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines—prolonging and deepening the pandemic. To understand why, we conduct process tracing of the first year of intern...

On March 25, Shelly Weizman will be speaking at Governor's Institute’s 2023 Addiction Medicine Conference on medications for opioid use disorder in criminal justice settings, including the legal imperatives and compliance.

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Spring Conference | Addiction Medicine 2023 Addiction Medicine Conference March 24-25, 2023 Hybrid Event (In Person in Asheville, NC or Virtual Attendance Available) Addiction Medicine 2023 will provide clinically relevant SUD knowledge and skills for physicians, APPs and other providers working in a variety of healthcare settings. Join....

Please join us and the Racial Justice Institute on Friday, March 24, at 5:30PM ET for an in-person event at Georgetown University Law Center on how structural racism creates disparate health outcomes and what is needed to drive positive change towards health equity.

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In collaboration with Legislative Analysis and Public Policy Association, the O'Neill Institute's Addiction and Public Policy Initiative developed new model legislation that seeks to maximize emergency medical settings as intervention points for people who experience a substance use-related emergency, people with substance use disorders, and their families.

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Model Substance Use Disorder Treatment in Emergency Settings Act • LAPPA The purpose of the Model Substance Use Disorder Treatment In Emergency Settings Act (Act) is to establish and align mechanisms for maximizing emergency medical settings as intervention points for people who experience a substance use-related emergency, people with substance use disorders, and their....

Please join us and Georgetown Law’s Environmental Law & Policy Program on Wednesday, March 29, at 11:30AM ET for a virtual event that addresses the intersection of global health law and environmental law in the context of the right to a healthy environment.

Moderated by Lydia Slobodian, the conversation will feature Renzo Guinto, Daniel Magraw, and Alexandra Phelan.

RSVP: https://georgetown.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0XsInchPSlGUbOQi4YoQdQ

Please join us and the Racial Justice Institute on Friday, March 24, from 5:30-7:00PM ET for an in-person discussion at Georgetown University Law Center on how structural racism creates disparate health outcomes and what is needed to drive positive change towards health equity.

Moderated by Derek Griffith, the conversation will feature Anita Gonzalez, Silvia Serrano Guzman, Robin Lenhardt, and Tlaleng Mofokeng.

RSVP: https://forms.gle/r2YgxeB7z9gm3yGB7

A recent decision by the Third Circuit will have important ramifications for oversight of the 340B Drug Pricing Program, write Andrew Twinamatsiko and Zachary Baron. In their new Expert Column, they analyze the decision, HHS’ response, and the stakes of the ruling.

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Third Circuit Issues Major Decision That Could Shift 340B Landscape - O'Neill The O’Neill Institute believes that the law is a fundamental tool for solving critical health problems.