Events by Type: Conferences
Bill of Health/Petrie-Flom reception at the 2014 ASLME Health Law Professors conference
All Bill of Health bloggers and readers and friends of the Petrie-Flom Center who attended the annual ASLME Health Law Professors Conference were invited to a cocktail reception.
Biostatistics and FDA Regulation: The Convergence of Science and Law
Symposium Presented by the Drug Information Association (DIA), the Food and Drug Law Institute (FDLI), and the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School,…
2014 Annual Conference: Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy
Couldn't join us in person at Harvard Law School? Join the conversation on Twitter using #BELHP2014! We also liveblogged the full event at Bill of Health throughout the conference…
New Directions for Food Safety: The Food Safety Modernization Act and Beyond
Sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center; the Food Law and Policy Clinic (a division of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation); the Food Law Lab; and the Harvard Food…
Health Law Year in P/Review
Couldn't attend in person? Learn more about the event: Learn more about the presentations - check out select speakers' slides below! Watch the video of this conference online! (See…
Companies’ Global Health ‘Footprint’: Could Rating Help?
Imagine a rating or accreditation system for companies' "global health footprint." Such a system would rigorously assess companies' overall impact on human health, including the health of the…
Bioethical Reflections in Honor of Dan Brock
The Conference honors Dan Brock and his contributions to bioethics. Brock has been one of the most influential figures in American bioethics. Prior to his arrival at Harvard, Dr. Brock…
When Less Information is Better: Blinding as a Solution to Institutional Corruption
The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University presented a multidisciplinary symposium that examined potential solutions to institutional corruption that use blinding: the strategy of concealing biasing information…
Issues and Case Studies in Clinical Trial Data Sharing: What Have We Learned?
Objectives: To convene key global stakeholders on a neutral platform to review evidence from recent case studies in clinical trial data disclosure To discuss key areas of learning and potential…
The Food and Drug Administration in the 21st Century: The 2013 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference
Conference Description The Food and Drug Administration, the US government’s oldest comprehensive consumer protection agency, bears the monumental task of safeguarding the public health through regulation of food,…
Universal Coverage in Developing Country Health Systems: Ethical Dilemmas
Can Universal Coverage be achieved in even the world's lowest-income countries? China's recent health reform, which in three years has extended health coverage to 95% of Chinese citizens, including…
Forum on Food Labeling: Putting the Label on the Table
The Harvard Law School Food Law Society's second annual conference was a part of the Society's mission to foster dialogue and exchange knowledge of emerging issues in food…
Health Law Year in P/Review
2012 was an historic year for health law, with the Supreme Court issuing the final word on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act alongside a host of other critical developments. 2013…
Institutional Financial Conflicts of Interest in Research Universities
Conference Overview Following the turn of the twenty-first century and the burst of the “IT Bubble,” we have seen the collapse of large publicly traded firms like Enron…
The Future of Human Subjects Research Regulation
Conference Description The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently released an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM), titled "Human Subjects Research Protections: Enhancing Protections for Research…
Facilitating Offender Re-entry to Reduce Recidivism: Federal Judicial Center Workshop
This Federal Judicial Center (FJC) workshop focused on facilitating offender re-entry to reduce recidivism, a major priority for Attorney General Eric Holder in his review of federal sentencing and corrections…
The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Challenges
Conference Description The increasing globalization of health care and its inputs provides new challenges for health law and bioethics. This conference brought together leading scholars and policy-makers to discuss several…
Moral Biology: What, (if anything), Can the Mind Sciences Teach Us about Law and Morality?
Conference Description In the "Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis," Sigmund Freud famously suggested that humanity would suffer three great blows at the hand of science: "The first was…
Health Metrics Workshop
Over two days in November, the Center convened leading thinkers in the area of health metrics evaluation to develop consensus on an appropriate set of metrics and tools for evaluating…
Comparative Models of Health Care Reform
This colloquium brought together specialists on a group of model states and countries to discuss relevant health care systems, their successes and limitations, and their potential application to the reform…