Parmet is a distinguished professor of law at
Northeastern University College of Social Sciences and Humanities and School of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs. Her field of academics is focused on
public health law, with other focuses in
health law and
disability law. She graduated from
Harvard University with a
Juris Doctor in 1982. She was co-counsel for the plaintiff party in
Bragdon v. Abbott (1998), In 2005, Parmet co-authored Ethical Health Care with Patricia Illingworth. In 2009, she published her first solo book,
Populations, Public Health, and the Law. In 2012, she co-authored
Debates on U.S. health care. In 2017, she once again collaborated with Illingworth to publish
The Health of Newcomers. In 2023, she published another book,
Constitutional Contagion: COVID, the Courts, and Public Health.
Political opinions Parmet was active in advocacy during the
COVID-19 pandemic; she stated that she supported
vaccine mandates for mitigation of the disease's spread. She was also pro-mask mandate and was critical of the injunction against a national mask mandate filed by Judge
Kathryn Kimball in May 2021. She is
pro-choice, and has voiced concerns about the restriction of abortion as precedent for the banning of other forms of
contraceptives. She has encouraged courts to utilise population health-based thinking in its legal analysis as a practical approach to public wellness. == Personal life ==