Events by Academic Year: 2012-2013
Film Screening: deepsouth
'deepsouth' is a documentary about the rural American South, and the people who inhabit its most quiet corners. Beneath layers of history, poverty and now soaring HIV infections, four Americans…
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…
Revising the Requirement of Informed Consent in an Era of Privatization and Managed Care
We had a discussion with Daniel Sperling, Petrie-Flom Center Short-Term Visiting Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Bioethics, Health Law, and Health Policy, The Federmann School of Public Policy & Government…
Harvard Law School Program of Study: Law, Science, and Technology Student Advisory Lunch
This advisory lunch provided information for students interested in careers in health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics.
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…
Personalized Medicine Patenting
Pharmaceutical researchers pursue medical treatment and diagnostic methods to target diseases specific to certain demographic groups. Such pursuit is often motivated by commercialization through patenting. Are these research innovations a…
Rethinking Personhood: Fetuses, Animals, and Robots
Are there entities that we do not (or would not) recognize as persons but should, or entities that we do (or would) recognize as persons but should not? Should fetuses,…
Charles Fried on Evidence as a Public Good
We hear a lot about the conflict between use of an individual's information for the public good and that individual's privacy concerns. In this talk organized by PFC…
Compliance with and Enforcement of US Healthcare Laws: Evolution of Modern Life Sciences Compliance
There have been a number of prosecutions of life sciences companies under the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and the qui tam whistleblower provisions of the False Claims Act. Allegations…
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…
Food & Drug Law, Past, Present, & Future: Celebrating Peter Barton Hutt’s 20 Years (thus far) at HLS
Peter Barton Hutt has worked at the Washington, DC law firm of Covington & Burling, specializing in Food and Drug Law, for more than five decades. He has represented clients…
Nourishing a Legal Career in the Life Sciences
A career discussion with Amy Schulman, Lecturer on Law at HLS, Executive Vice President and General Counsel at Pfizer, Inc., President and General Manager of Pfizer Nutrition, and Mark Nance,…
Stem Cell Therapy and Medical Tourism: Of Promise and Peril?
Experimental breakthroughs within the field of regenerative medicine are reported in the media on a daily basis worldwide. Despite this progress, the overwhelming majority of clinical problems for which stem…
The Guatemala STD Inoculation Studies: What Should We Do Now?
In the late 1940s, U.S. and Guatemalan researchers conducted a host of experiments on vulnerable Guatemalan subjects, purposefully exposing them to and infecting them with a number of STDs…
Massachusetts: A Community Approach to Quality, Affordable Health Care
Six years after passing the groundbreaking health care access law that became the model for national reform, Massachusetts has once again led the nation through legislation setting a limit on…
Advances in HIV Prevention: Legal, Clinical, and Public Health Issues
On July 3, 2012, FDA approved OraQuick, the first at-home HIV test available for sale directly to consumers, allowing individuals to self-test and receive confidential results in about 20 minutes. Then on July 16,…
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…
Obamacare on Trial: A Booktalk with Einer Elhauge
The panel discussion on Petrie-Flom Center Founding Faculty Director Einer Elhauge’s book Obamacare on Trial featured: Einer Elhauge I. Glenn Cohen of Harvard Law School and the Petrie-Flom…