{"id":118285,"date":"2025-06-13T10:08:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T14:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=118285"},"modified":"2025-06-30T14:59:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T18:59:47","slug":"revealing-research","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/record\/articles\/2025\/revealing-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Revealing Research"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin record-block-editorial-leadin is-style-side-by-side has-media has-wider has-media-focus-center-middle\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<img width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" src=\"\/law\/files\/2025\/06\/RevealingResearch_Record-Header-Image.png\" class=\"\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2025\/06\/RevealingResearch_Record-Header-Image.png 900w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2025\/06\/RevealingResearch_Record-Header-Image-477x636.png 477w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2025\/06\/RevealingResearch_Record-Header-Image-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2025\/06\/RevealingResearch_Record-Header-Image-620x826.png 620w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2025\/06\/RevealingResearch_Record-Header-Image-512x682.png 512w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2025\/06\/RevealingResearch_Record-Header-Image-774x1032.png 774w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2025\/06\/RevealingResearch_Record-Header-Image-258x344.png 258w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2025\/06\/RevealingResearch_Record-Header-Image-397x529.png 397w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2025\/06\/RevealingResearch_Record-Header-Image-516x688.png 516w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2025\/06\/RevealingResearch_Record-Header-Image-794x1058.png 794w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2025\/06\/RevealingResearch_Record-Header-Image-750x1000.png 750w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/files\/2025\/06\/RevealingResearch_Record-Header-Image-600x800.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin-caption wp-prepress-component-caption\">Illustration by Silke Werzinger, Colagene, Creative Clinic<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">Research<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRevealing Research\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"deck\">Faculty and alumni scholarship confronts public health inequities.<\/h4>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar record-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">June 13, 2025<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-introparagraph record-block-editorial-introparagraph is-style-dropcap-outlined has-dropcap has-dropcap-color-quaternary\"><div class=\"wp-block-editorial-introparagraph-content\"><p>The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have been widespread across many areas of life, particularly in the pandemic\u2019s exposure of public health failures and inequities. Several members of the BU Law community produced scholarship that shines light on these pressing public health issues in the areas of gender inequality, racial and socioeconomic disparities, and reproductive rights.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 id=\"headline-1\" class=\"wp-block-editorial-headline record-block-editorial-headline\"><strong><em>Gender Inequality<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-editorial-aside record-block-editorial-aside has-light-background\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.law.bu.edu\/faculty_scholarship\/3797\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cStructural Sex Discrimination: Why Gynecology Patients Suffer Avoidable Injuries and What the Law Can Do About It\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each year, nearly four million Americans undergo gynecological surgeries, with many suffering injuries as a result. In 2024, Professor <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/profile\/christopher-robertson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CHRISTOPHER ROBERTSON<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>ANNABEL KUPKE (\u201923)<\/strong>, and Lecturer <strong>LOUISE P. KING<\/strong> published a paper in the <em>Emory Law Journal<\/em> that diagnoses the root cause of the preventable injuries within the US framework for healthcare finance and offers legal solutions for accountability.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-editorial-aside record-block-editorial-aside has-light-background\">\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.routledge.com\/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Gender-and-COVID-19\/McClain-Ahmed\/p\/book\/9781032213347?srsltid=AfmBOor076C2UzaXAOh1RjXRpBVREb5BTJZC_JyONDHqrFKyuA8LDzFZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Routledge Companion to Gender and COVID-19<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professors <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/profile\/linda-c-mcclain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LINDA MCCLAIN<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/profile\/aziza-ahmed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AZIZA AHMED<\/a><\/strong> coedited a 2024 research guide on the relationship between gender and COVID-19, looking at the role gender played in the pandemic\u2019s effects and in governmental responses, from access to health services and vaccines to political leadership and beyond. The collection demonstrates how the pandemic exacerbated inequalities in gender, race, class, sexuality, disability, and immigration status. The guide also includes a chapter by Professor <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/profile\/naomi-m-mann\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NAOMI M. MANN<\/a><\/strong> on technology and gender in the courts.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-editorial-aside record-block-editorial-aside has-light-background\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.law.bu.edu\/faculty_scholarship\/978\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cGendered Complications of COVID-19: Towards a Feminist Recovery Plan\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor <strong>LINDA MCCLAIN<\/strong> and coauthor Naomi Cahn, a law professor at the University of Virginia, argued in a 2021 <em>Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law<\/em> article that COVID-19 exposed and worsened preexisting gender inequities concerning work and family, including the gender pay gap, the childcare crisis, and the disproportionate role of women\u2014particularly, women of color\u2014in providing essential but undervalued care work. McClain and Cahn argued that the pandemic presented an opportunity to adopt laws and policies to reduce these intersectional inequalities.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<h1 id=\"headline-2\" class=\"wp-block-editorial-headline record-block-editorial-headline\"><strong><em>Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-editorial-aside record-block-editorial-aside has-light-background\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/repository.law.umich.edu\/mjrl\/vol29\/iss2\/4\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cReformed But Not Repaired\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NIA JOHNSON (\u201919)<\/strong> published a paper in the <em>Michigan Journal of Race &amp; Law\u2019s<\/em> 2025 issue on inadequacies in healthcare reform, arguing that structural racism revealed several gaps in the Affordable Care Act that were exacerbated by the pandemic. These shortcomings disproportionately affected racial minorities, leading to divergent outcomes in COVID-19 complications and mortality.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-editorial-aside record-block-editorial-aside has-light-background\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarship.law.bu.edu\/faculty_scholarship\/1346\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cDisparities in Health Care: The Pandemic\u2019s Lessons for Health Lawyers\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Professor <strong>DANIELLE PELFREY DURYEA<\/strong>, former BU Law clinical instructor; Chair of the Health Law Program and Co-Director of the BU Program on Reproductive Justice Professor <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/law\/profile\/nicole-huberfeld\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NICOLE HUBERFELD<\/a><\/strong>; and The Ohio State University Professor Ruqaiijah Yearby cowrote a chapter in the American Health Law Association\u2019s <em>Health Law Watch<\/em> (2021) that discusses discrimination and inequity in healthcare, informs legal practitioners of key trends, and offers guidance on navigating current regulations.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<h1 id=\"headline-2\" class=\"wp-block-editorial-headline record-block-editorial-headline\"><strong><em><strong><em>Reproductive Rights<\/em><\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-editorial-aside record-block-editorial-aside has-light-background\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/lung-float-test-stillbirths-boston-university-northeastern-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Floating Lung Test Research Study Group<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since 2023, Professor <strong>AZIZA AHMED<\/strong> and Northeastern University School of Law Professor Daniel Medwed have been leading a team of lawyers and forensic scientists in research around the legal and scientific legitimacy of the \u201clung float\u201d test, which has been used as evidence to bring murder charges against mothers who experience stillbirths.<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"wp-block-editorial-aside record-block-editorial-aside has-light-background\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/36053229\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cWill EMTALA Be There for People with Pregnancy-Related Emergencies?\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since the 1970s, <strong>SARA ROSENBAUM\u2019S (\u201976)<\/strong> advocacy has been critical to the improvement of American healthcare policy, including the passage of the Emergency Medical Treatment &amp; Labor Act (EMTALA). 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