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Audrey Blondin, an adjunct professor of public health, comments that a national approach to women’s healthcare should be found that’s not determined by zip codes.
Audrey Blondin, J.D., MPH
Department of Population Health and Leadership
School of Health Sciences
Education
MPH, University of Connecticut
J.D., Temple University School of Law
B.S., Southern Connecticut State University
About Audrey
Audrey Blondin is the founder of the Blondin Law Office, LLC, Connecticut’s oldest woman-owned law firm, which she established in 1980. It is also the only mother-daughter run law firm operating in Litchfield County.
The firm’s areas of practice include real-estate purchases, sales, refinances, wills and estate planning, elder law, bankruptcy, business law and contracts, nonprofit organizations, and animal law. The firm has also served as counsel for many banks and mortgage companies, providing representation on residential closings, including FHA, CHFA, DAP and VA loan programs, commercial closings, foreclosures, and loan workouts.
Audrey, who earned a Master of Public Health from the University of Connecticut, joined the University of New Haven in 2021 as an adjunct professor to teach a “Law and Public Health” course as part of the Master of Public program. Guest speakers she has invited to speak to her class include Connecticut Lieutenant Governor Susan Bysiewicz, Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin, Connecticut Attorney General William Tong, New Haven Public Health Director Maritza Bond, and U.S. Congresswoman Jahana Hayes.
See MoreFrom 2014 to 2018 Audrey served on the Connecticut Judicial Selection Commission to evaluate, investigate, and recommend qualified candidates for consideration by then Governor Dan Malloy for nominations as judges for the Superior, Appellate, and Supreme Courts.
She is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association and the Connecticut Public Health Association.
Audrey served on the Board of Selectmen for the Town of Litchfield from 1993 to 2003, participating in all aspects of local town government, including the budget process and preparation, labor negotiations, hiring of personnel, community involvement, and interaction with various town departments and local boards and commissions, including Public Works, Parks and Recreation, and Board of Finance. She also Served as local Public Information Officer and Chairman of the Litchfield Courthouse Committee.
In 2001, along with her husband, Dr. Matthew Blondin, she co-founded VOSH-CT, the Connecticut chapter of VOSH-International, an international organization providing eye care services to residents in need locally and in third-world countries. She currently serves as Secretary/Treasurer of VOSH-CT. In 2003, she was the recipient of Connecticut Association of Optometry Recognition Award. She has assisted in providing eye examinations and eyeglasses to more than 50,000 area residents without access to eye care.
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Audrey Blondin, adjunct professor of public health, talks to Michael Kosta at the DNC in Chicago, where she served as a Connecticut delegate.
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Audrey Blondin, an adjunct professor of public health, shares her experiences as a delegate from Connecticut at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
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Audrey Blondin, an adjunct professor of population health and leadership, discusses the Supreme Court of the United States overturning Roe v. Wade two years ago and its impact on women nationwide.
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Audrey Blondin, an adjunct professor of population health and leadership, comments on a case before the Supreme Court of the United States on the Comstock Act and the ruling on mailing the abortion drug mifepristone.
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Audrey Blondin, an adjunct professor of population health and leadership, discusses a case before the Connecticut Supreme Court on restoring vaccination exemptions on the basis of religion in the public school system.
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Erick Russell ’09, State of Connecticut Treasurer, was complimented for securing approval for Baby Bonds. He was commended by Audrey Blondin, adjunct professor of population health and leadership and the secretary of the Democratic State Central Committee, and Michael Lawlor, associate professor of criminal justice.
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Audrey Blondin, an adjunct professor of population health and leadership, discusses the FDA’s plan to make over-the-counter birth control pills available for women nationwide.
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Audrey Blondin, an adjunct professor of population health and leadership, responds to questions about the Supreme Court's upcoming decision on the FDA's approval of mifepristone.
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Audrey Blondin, an adjunct professor of population health and leadership, discusses why the U.S. Supreme Court is reviewing the legal arguments for the ban of abortion pill Mifepristone and how the overturning of Roe v. Wade could impact this decision.
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Audrey Blondin, adjunct professor of population health and leadership, talks about a first-of-its-kind federal case challenging the FDA's authority for using mifepristone, a drug used to terminate a pregnancy, as the ruling against the FDA could bring an automatic nationwide ban across the United States.
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Audrey Blondin, adjunct professor of health administration and policy, says Saint Francis Hospital suing Hartford HealthCare is driven and dependent on the times and would have had a different outcome 40 years ago.