[5] She was co-counsel for the plaintiff party in Bragdon v. Abbott (1998),[5] where a person was denied healthcare treatment due to having HIV.
Parmet was active in advocacy during the COVID-19 pandemic; she stated that she supported vaccine mandates for mitigation of the disease's spread.
[17] She is pro-choice,[21] and has voiced concerns about the restriction of abortion as precedent for the banning of other forms of contraceptives.
[22] She has encouraged courts to utilise population health-based thinking in its legal analysis as a practical approach to public wellness.
[23] She is the daughter of famed American historian and biographer Herbert Parmet and his wife Joan Kronish.