News Archive

Since early 2020, when news of a novel coronavirus made headlines, Hall Center faculty have been fielding media requests, creating podcasts and writing articles and op-eds on issues related to COVID-19.

Professor of Law Nicolas Terry published an op-ed in The Hill recognizing a long list of failures related to COVID-19. Since the pandemic began, he’s also been speaking out about nursing homes and COVID-19, including in an article in The Conversation.

Among the many news stories featuring IU McKinney Associate Professor and Dean’s Fellow Seema Mohapatra, her scholarship on the COVID-19 pandemic and structural racism was cited in a Vox piece, “What Public Health Experts Want Critics to Know about Why They Support the Protests.” It picks up on an article and forthcoming book chapter co-written by Professor Mohapatra.

An article by Professor Ross Silverman for The Conversation outlines what might follow religious objections to a COVID-19 vaccine. Meanwhile, the online news site Healthline asked Daniel G. Orenstein, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at IU McKinney, to weigh in on how COVID-19 treatments in short supply might be distributed.

Anthem Inc. and other health insurers are racking up record profits, but those windfalls are drawing criticism, according to an August 21 story in the Indianapolis Business Journal, which cited both Terry and Fran Quigley, director of the Health and Human Rights Clinic at the IU McKinney.