Events by Academic Year: 2016-2017
Digital Health @ Harvard Brown Bag Lunch Series: Public Health Echo Chambers in a Time of Mistrust and Misinformation
The Digital Health @ Harvard brown bag lunch series features speakers from Harvard as well as collaborators and colleagues from other institutions who research the intersection between health and digital technology.…
Yuval Noah Harari in conversation with Michael Sandel: A discussion of Harari's new book Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Harvard Book Store and welcomes the bestselling author of Sapiens Yuval Noah Harari for a discussion of his latest book, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Harari will be…
Health Law Workshop: Brendan Maher
About the Presenter Brendan S. Maher is a Professor of Law and the Director of the independently endowed Insurance Law Center at UConn School of Law. A graduate of Stanford…
Returning Results to Research Participants: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Clinical investigators, public health advocates, and IRBs have been struggling to develop appropriate policies on how to return results to patients involved in research studies. These results may come in…
Looking Forward: The Next Generation of Biosimilars
Couldn't make it to the event? Check out some of the speakers' slides below! Description Many of today’s important medications are biological products made from living organisms,…
Digital Health @ Harvard Brown Bag Lunch Series: Free Independent Health Records, featuring Adrian Gropper, MD
The Digital Health @ Harvard brown bag lunch series features speakers from Harvard as well as collaborators and colleagues from other institutions who research the intersection between health and digital technology.…
Fifth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review
Couldn't make it to the event? Check out some of the speakers' slides as well as the Health Affairs blog symposium! Description The Fifth Annual Health Law Year in…
President-Elect Trump’s Health Policy Agenda: Priorities, Strategies, and Predictions
The Petrie-Flom Center hosted a live web panel to address what health care reform might look like under President-elect Trump's administration. Expert panelists discussed the future of the Affordable…
Paying Research Participants: Ethical and Regulatory Parameters
Couldn't make it to the event? Check out some of the speakers' slide presentations below! Description This symposium brought together a variety of experts to discuss key ethical and…
Clinical Trial Data Sharing and Reproducibility: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
In January, the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors proposed requiring that investigators make de-identified trial data available six months after publication as a precondition of consideration. Many data scientists…
The Animal Welfare Act at 50
Overview The Animal Law & Policy Program at Harvard Law School hosted The Animal Welfare Act at Fifty, a conference that brought experts together to assess the first fifty years…
Health Law Workshop: Frances Kamm
Presentation Topic: “Advanced and End of Life Care: Cautionary Suggestions” This paper is not available for download. To request a copy in preparation for the workshop, please contact…
Health Law Workshop: Elizabeth Weeks Leonard
Presentation Download the presentation materials: "Healthism: Health Status Discrimination and the Law" Jessica L. Roberts and Elizabeth Weeks Leonard, "Healthism: Health Status Discrimination and the Law"…
The Hope and Hype of Precision Medicine: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Description There has been considerable hype surrounding personalized and precision medicine in the past few years-including President Obama's 2015 announcement of $215 million for the Precision Medicine Initiative. While some policymakers…
Book Launch: Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics
In November 2016, Johns Hopkins University Press published Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics, co-edited by Petrie-Flom Center Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen, Executive Director Holly Fernandez Lynch, and Christopher…
Half A Life: Legal and Policy Implications of Releasing Youth Incarcerated for Murder
Couldn't attend the event? Check out the speakers' slide presentations below! Description Youth convicted of murder ordinarily serve decades in prison before they complete a sentence or are paroled.…
Health Law Workshop: Trudo Lemmens
Presentation Topic: "While Canada Ventures into Legalized Medical Assistance in Dying, What Can It Learn from the Belgian Euthanasia Experience?" This paper is not available for download. To…
FULL REPORT AVAILABLE: The Ethics of Early Embryo Research & the Future of the 14-Day Rule
Couldn't join us for the event? Read the full report! "Ethical Issues Related to the Creation of Synthetic Human Embryos" Check out presenters' slides from the event…
The 21st-Century Advanced Illness Care Team: How Team-based Care is Moving Medicine Beyond the Clinic into the Home and Community
Care for advanced illness is moving beyond the hospital and physician office and into the home and community. Addressing the needs of the individual with advanced illness increasingly requires an…
Concurrent Surgeries: Medical, Legal, and Ethical Issues
Couldn't attend the event? Check out selected speakers' slide presentations! Concurrent, or overlapping, surgeries involve the simultaneous scheduling of substantial portions of two or more surgeries under the supervision…