Wendy E. Parmet is the George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished Professor of Law at Northeastern University, where she is the faculty director of the Center for Health Policy and Law. The author of over one hundred law review and peer reviewed articles, her most recent book is Constitutional Contagion: COVID, The Courts and Public Health (Cambridge University Press, 2023). Prof. Parmet is also the Associate Editor for Law & Ethics for the American Journal of Public Health. In 2016, she received the Jay Healey Teaching Award from the American Society of Law & Medicine; in 2022 she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement in Public Health Law Award from the American Public Health Association’s Section on Public Health Law.