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Power and Money in Global Health: A conversation with Tim Schwab about “The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire”

February 22, 2024

Event Description In this interactive, hybrid event, Alicia Ely Yamin, JD, MPH, PhD, moderated a conversation with investigative journalist and author Tim Schwab about his latest book, The Bill…

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Open and Inclusive:: Fair Processes for Financing Universal Health Coverage

Featuring contributions from Alicia Ely Yamin, et al.
World Bank

The report offers decision support on fair processes for policy choices relating to health financing for universal health coverage (UHC). It opens by making the case for why fair processes…

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We Want a Future Pandemic Treaty to Reflect the Perspective of the Global South

Vacunas Para la Gente Latinoamérica, featuring María Natalia Echegoyemberry as a signatory, featuring María Natalia Echegoyemberry as a signatory
Vacunas Para la Gente Latinoamérica

It is necessary that the discussion process of the Zero Draft incorporates a Latin American and Caribbean regional socio-political vision, which will make visible the consequences of neoliberal policies in…

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When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality

Alicia Ely Yamin
Stanford University Press

When Misfortune Becomes Injustice surveys the progress and challenges in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over recent decades. Alicia Ely Yamin weaves together theory and…

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Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights in Public Health Emergencies

International Commission of Jurists and Global Health Law Consortium, including Alicia Ely Yamin
Global Health Law Consortium, International Commission of Jurists, and Brocher Foundation

Reglamento Sanitario Internacional: Desafíos Desde el Sur Global

María Natalia Echegoyemberry (Affiliated Researcher)
Vacunas Para La Genete Latino América.

La situación de pandemia provocada por el COVID 19 es considerada una catástrofe humanitaria que podría haberse evitado: puso en evidencia el fracaso de …

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Video now available! Health Justice in the Americas: The Role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

April 05, 2022
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View the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #HealthJusticeAm. Watch the fully captioned event recording Read the event coverage:  Jonathan A. Cosgrove and Tarah D. Gilles, "Legal Experts Discuss…

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Travel restrictions and variants of concern: global health laws need to reflect evidence

Benjamin Mason Meier et al., including Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights)
The Bulletin of the World Health Organization

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spread in the early days of the pandemic, governments neglected World Health Organization (WHO) guidance and imposed travel restrictions. These public health measures employed varied…

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Video now available! Exporting Mayhem: Suing Gun Manufacturers in the US to Stop Violence in Mexico

February 17, 2022
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View the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #ExportingMayhem. Watch the fully captioned event recording. Event Description In 2021, the Mexican government filed a ground-breaking suit in federal court in Boston, Massachusetts,…

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Video now available! Countering COVID-19 Misinformation: The Impact on Health Care Providers

February 02, 2022
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Join the conversation and submit questions on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #AgainstMisinfo. Watch the fully captioned event video. Event Description The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked debates about a number of public…

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The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock

Harris A. Lewin et al., including Jacob S. Sherkow (Former Edmond J. Safra/Petrie-Flom Centers Joint Fellow-in-Residence)
PNAS

November 2020 marked 2 y since the launch of the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), which aims to sequence all known eukaryotic species in a 10-y timeframe. Since then, significant progress has been…

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The Right to Health: The Potential and Limits of Catalysing Systemic Change through the Courts

Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights)
The Oxford Handbook of Constitutional Law in Latin America

This chapter focuses on the judicialization of health rights in Latin America. It begins by outlining the constitutional provisions in relation to health rights in five countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia,…

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Video now available! Disruptions of Dignity: COVID-19 and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Latin America

October 08, 2021
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View the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #DisabilityLatAm. Watch the fully captioned event video. Event Description The COVID-19 pandemic battered the Latin American region, and has exacted a disproportionate toll…

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The Struggle for Human Rights

Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights)
The Struggle for Human Rights

Essays in honour of Philip Alston Edited by Nehal Bhuta, Florian Hoffmann, Sarah Knuckey, Frédéric Mégret, and Margaret Satterthwaite Evaluates the themes of law,…

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Video now available! Engendering Democracy: The Significance of Abortion Legalization in Argentina

September 14, 2021
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Watch the fully captioned event recording. Check out the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #GreenWaveArgentina. Event Description In December 2020, first trimester abortion was legalized in Argentina with the passage of…

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Re-Imagining Possibilities of Governance for Global Health

Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights)
Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law

Transcript of Remarks I want to be clear that I say that as a committed multilateralist. I teach international human rights law and comparative constitutional law relating to health, as…

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Amicus Curiae Brief: Case of Manuela and Family v. El Salvador

Center for Human Rights and Global Justice co-signed by Alicia Yamin (Senior Fellow Global Health and RIghts)
Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Professor Philip Alston and Leah Motzkin have the honor of submitting this Amicus Curiae brief to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter also referred to as “the Court…

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Video now available! Medical Stereotypes: Confronting Racism and Disparities in US Health Care: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium

February 12, 2021
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Check out the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #MedicalStereotypes. Watch fully captioned video of the event. Event Description Minority racial and ethnic groups in the US have long experienced disparities…

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Lost on the High Seas without a Safe Harbor or a Shield? Navigating Cross-Border Transfers in the Pharmaceutical Sector After Schrems II Invalidation of the EU-US Privacy Shield

Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci, Timo Minssen (Former Visiting Scholar), Claudia Seitz, and Mateo Aboy
European Pharmaceutical Law Review

This paper analyzes the impact and associated legal challenges of cross-border data transfers in the pharmaceutical sector after the recent Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decision in…

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Social, cultural and economic aspects of antimicrobial resistance

Timo Minssen (Former Visiting Scholar), Kevin Outterson, Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, et al.
Bulletin of the World Health Organization

Complete author list: Timo Minssen (Former Visiting Scholar), Kevin Outterson, Susan Rogers Van Katwyk, Pedro Henrique D. Batista, Clare I. R. Chandler, Francesco Ciabuschi, Stephan Harbarth, Aaron S. Kesselheim, Ramanan…

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At the Epicenter of COVID-19–the Tragic Failure of the Global Supply Chain for Medical Supplies

Sonu Bhaskar, Jeremy Tan, Marcel L. A. M. Bogers, Timo Minssen (Former Visiting Scholar), et al.
Frontiers in Public Health

Complete author list: Sonu Bhaskar, Jeremy Tan, Marcel L. A. M. Bogers, Timo Minssen (Former Visiting Scholar), Hishamuddin Badaruddin, Simon Israeli-Korn, and Henry Chesbrough. The tragic failure of the global…

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Video now available! Enforcing Constitutional Commitments to Health and Social Equality in Kenya: A Conversation with Justice Mumbi Ngugi

November 19, 2020
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Check out the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #HealthJusticeKenya. Watch fully captioned video of the event. Event Description Mumbi Ngugi is a Judge of the High Court of Kenya who…

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Antibiotics in Agriculture: Preventing the Next Pandemic

November 18, 2020

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, this panel discussion will be held virtually, as an online webinar. To ensure that you will receive access to the livestream and be kept…

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Video now available! Detecting Dementia: Technology, Access, and the Law

November 16, 2020
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Online Viewing Check out the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #DetectingDementia. Watch fully captioned video of the event. Event Description Advances in neuroimaging, genetics, and mobile health apps are creating…

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Video available now! Constitutional Democracy and the Role of High Courts in Times of Crisis: The Case of Mexico

October 23, 2020
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Couldn't join the webinar? Check out the conversation @PetrieFlom using #RaceandHealth. Watch fully captioned video of the event! Event Description How do modern constitutional democracies preserve the rule of…

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Hay Alternativa: Agendas transformadoras: [There is an Alternative: Transformative Agendas]

Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky and Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights)
Covid-19 y derechos humanos [COVID-19 and human rights]

¿De qué manera la Covid-19 y las medidas estatales para combatirla afectan los derechos humanos? ¿Cuáles son los grupos más golpeados por la…

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Opinion: Why the SDGs’ defining decade must focus on accountability for those left behind

Joy Phumaphi, Elizabeth Mason, and Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights)
Devex

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, the world had achieved remarkable progress in improving health outcomes for women, children, and adolescents. Reducing under-5 and maternal mortality, improving sexual and reproductive health…

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Human rights parables for a post-pandemic world

Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow)
The Lancet

Before the COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the structural inequalities across societies, there were diverging parables in human rights. One narrative identified the populist challenge to human rights and juxtaposed it…

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Video now available! COVID-19 and the Stakes for Democracy in South America

September 17, 2020
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Couldn't join the webinar? Check out the conversation @PetrieFlom using #COVIDSouthAmerica. Watch fully captioned video of the event! Event Description The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a health crisis,…

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Watch online now! Debt, Dignity, and Health Care: Guaranteeing Health Rights and Universal Health Coverage

March 27, 2020
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Online Viewing Couldn't join us during the webinar? Watch fully-captioned video of the sessions! Check out the conversation on Twitter: #debtdignityhealth! View some of the panelists' slide presentations below! …

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Human Rights and Coronavirus: What’s at Stake for Truth, Trust, and Democracy?

Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow) and Roojin Habibi
Health and Human Rights Journal

[...] It has scarcely been a month since COVID-19 (then simply known as the disease caused by a novel ‘coronavirus’) was declared a “public health emergency of international…

The Coronavirus Goes Global: The illness is on every continent except Antarctica, with more new cases outside China than within. But how threatening is the outbreak really?

Hosted by Michael Barbaro, interviewing Donald G. McNeil Jr.
"The Daily," from the New York Times

What began as a public health crisis in China is well on the way to becoming a pandemic. And while there is a lot of news about the coronavirus, there…

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Do not violate the International Health Regulations during the COVID-19 outbreak

Coauthored by Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow)
The Lancet

The International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) govern how 196 countries and WHO collectively address the global spread of disease and avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade. Article 43 of this legally…

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Book Talk: When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality

February 7, 2020
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Description When Misfortune Becomes Injustice (Stanford University Press, February 2020) surveys the progress and challenges faced in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over the last thirty years,…

WHO Declares Coronavirus Outbreak A Global Emergency, But Reiterates Confidence In Chinese Officials

Kaiser Health News

KHN Morning Briefing: Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizationsWHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the declaration comes now because of fears that the coronavirus may reach countries…

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Advancing women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health and equity

Nicholas K Alipui and Elizabeth Mason for the UN Secretary-General’s Independent Accountability Panel for Every Woman, Every Child, Every Adolescent
BMJ

Petrie-Flom Center Senior Fellow on Global Health and Rights Alicia Ely Yamin is a member of the UN Secretary-General’s Independent Accountability Panel for Every Woman, Every Child, Every…

Call For Proposals: Book Series on Health and Healing in Africa and the African Diaspora, Delaware State University

Deadline: December 31, 2019
Donna Patterson

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From the description: Health and healing have been critical in African and African-descended communities across the globe. As a result, this series will publish monographs and edited volumes on aspects…

2020 Brocher Summer Academy in Global Population Health, Brocher Foundation, Hermance, Switzerland

Deadline: December 13, 2019

From the application: Introduction: Government agencies and donors face significant challenges in determining how best to allocate available resources to improve population health, whether through regulations, new programs, or existing…

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15+ Years of PEPFAR: How U.S. Action on HIV/AIDS Has Changed Global Health

October 7, 2019
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Couldn't join us for the event? Check out some of the speakers' slide presentations and blog posts! Description In May 2003, the U.S. Congress passed bipartisan legislation authorizing a…

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Abortion Battles in Mexico and Beyond: The Role of Law and the Courts

October 4, 2019
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Couldn't join us for the event? Check out some of the speakers' blog posts! Description Battles over sexual and reproductive health and rights, particularly abortion rights, are occurring around…

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Accountability in Global Health and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

produced by GHELI at Harvard University, interviewing Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow)
GHELI at Harvard University

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Research Assistant in Global Health and Rights, Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School

Deadline: Open until filled.

Position Description This 10-hour/week Research Assistant position will support the Petrie-Flom Center's Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights Alicia Yamin, whose work focuses on…

The Right to Health in Latin America: The Challenges of Constructing Fair Limits

By Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow)
University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law

From the abstract: There is increasing scholarly attention to judicial enforcement of the right to health, but too often it extrapolates general lessons from one country or region. The impacts…

Program Coordinator: Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Deadline: Open until filled.
Samantha Longo

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From the job description: Duties & Responsibilities The Program Coordinator will provide support for a varied cluster of research, training, and service projects addressing ethical issues arising in respect to…

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Struggles for Human Rights in Health in an Age of Neoliberalism: From Civil Disobedience to Epistemic Disobedience

by Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow)
Journal of Human Rights Practice

From the article: Like other contributors to this special issue and beyond, I believe we are at a critical inflection point in human rights and need to re-energize our work…

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Social participation and inclusion of ex-combatants with disabilities in Colombia

by Minerva Rivas Velarde (Visiting Scholar), Karim Del Rocio, Garzon Diazb, Tom Shakespeare
Disability and the Global South

From the abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore ex-combatants’ understandings of disability and the pathways for social reintegration available to them in Colombia. The qualitative data…

Conference: Nurturing Industrial Economy in Africa, University of Dodoma, Tanzania

Deadline: November 07, 2019
Continuing Education Unit

From the description: Type: Conference Date: November 7, 2019 to November 8, 2019 Location:Tanzania Subject Fields: Government and Public Service, Health and Health Care, Languages, Political Science, Teaching…

The AIDS Crisis is Not Over, Radical History Review

Deadline: September 01, 2019
Radical History Review

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From the description: This issue of the Radical History Review will examine the politics of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. While it has been almost forty years since doctors…

Unique challenges for health equity in Latin America: Situating the roles of priority-setting and judicial enforcement

by Alicia Yamin (Senior Fellow), Andrés Pichon-Riviere, and Paola Bergallo
International Journal for Equity in Health

From the abstract: Overcoming continuing polarization regarding judicial enforcement of health rights in Latin America requires clarifying divergent normative and political premises, addressing the lack of reliable empirical data, and…

Research Associate (Health Care), The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School

Deadline: Open until filled.
Applicants should not reach out to Professor Porter directly.
>Read the full job posting and apply online!

Duties & Responsibilities The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (www.isc.hbs.edu) is a joint Institute of Harvard University and Harvard Business School, dedicated to supporting and extending the…

Executive Director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Deadline: Open until filled.
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Duties & Responsibilities The Executive Director (ED) is the strategic partner to the Center Director, providing thought leadership and broad high-level management support for the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center …

Silencing the drama: Do the SDG indicators expose the injustices that limit women’s sexual and reproductive lives?

Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow)
Open Global Rights

From the article: There is no area of human rights that has more pitched and dramatic battles than sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). As David Hulme’s …

Why accountability matters for universal health coverage and meeting the SDGs

Elizabeth Mason and Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow)
The Lancet

From the article: At the December, 2018, Partnership for Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (PMNCH) Partners' Forum in Delhi, India, accountability was recognised as a key pillar of achieving the goals…

Book Talk: Global Health Justice and Governance

March 11, 2019
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Description In a world beset by serious and unconscionable health disparities, by dangerous contagions that can circle our globalized planet in hours, and by a bewildering confusion of health actors…

Antibiotic Resistance: What Collaboration and Policy Can Do For Our Future

November 15, 2018

Description U.S. PIRG and Harvard Law School invite you to a panel discussion about antibiotic resistance as part of Antibiotic Awareness Week. The World Health Organization ranks antibiotic resistance…

Drug Pricing Policies in the United States and Globally: From Development to Delivery

October 24, 2018
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Couldn't join us? Check out the conversation on Twitter: @PetrieFlom #drugpricing and some of our speakers' slide presentations below! Description This one-day conference explored the current pharmaceutical pricing landscape…

Achieving Equitable Access to Vaccines: From Policies to Provisions

October 17, 2018

Description In order to achieve the objectives of global health organization policies those policies must be translated into actionable provisions and agreements. The Global Healthcare Innovation Alliance Accelerator endeavors to…

Ethical Investment in Global Public Health Security: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium

October 12, 2018

Description Health emergencies around the world in recent years have included SARS, MERS, Ebola, and influenza. These epidemics have caused substantial mortality, destabilized governments, and served as significant risks to…

Preventing Epidemics in a Connected World: Part of Outbreak Week at Harvard University

September 28, 2018
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Description Led by the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI), Outbreak Week was a University-wide effort to commemorate the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people around the globe. As…

Vaccines for Outbreaks in the Modern World: Part of Outbreak Week at Harvard University

September 27, 2018
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Description Led by HGHI, Outbreak Week was a University-wide effort to commemorate the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people around the globe. Featuring keynotes from Michael Ryan, Deputy…

Media in the Age of Contagions: Part of Outbreak Week at Harvard University

September 26, 2018
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Description Led by HGHI, Outbreak Week was a University-wide effort to commemorate the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people around the globe. At this symposium on "Media in…

Call for Applications: Fung Global Fellows Program, Princeton University

Deadline: November 09, 2018

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The 2019-20 program topic is “Thinking Globally.”  How people have thought about the planet has informed the institutions, norms, and policies that have pulled it…

Circumvention Medical Tourism and Cutting Edge Medicine: The Case of Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy

I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

From the article: “Medical Tourism” is the travel of patients from a home country to a destination country for the primary purpose of receiving health care. “Circumvention…

Can Rationing through Inconvenience Be Ethical?

Nir Eyal, Paul L. Romain, and Christopher T. Robertson (Academic Fellow alumnus)
Hasting Center Report

From the Article: In this article, we provide a comprehensive analysis and a normative assessment of rationing through inconvenience as a form of rationing. By “rationing through inconvenience”…

Enabling Disability Rights in the U.S. and around the World

March 19, 2018

Professor Michael Stein is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability. An internationally acclaimed expert on disability law and policy, Stein participated in the…

Nicotine and Ethics: 2018 Brocher Summer Academy in Population-level Bioethics, Brocher Foundation, Hermance, Switzerland

Deadline: March 31, 2018
Monica Magalhaes

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General Description: The Brocher Foundation invites junior faculty, post-docs, advanced graduate students, clinicians and other practitioners to apply for inclusion in the 2018 Brocher Summer Academy in Population-Level Bioethics. This year…

Criminal Abortion in the United States

March 1, 2018

Couldn't join us for the event? Listen to the full event below! The Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School invites you to a lunch talk on human rights…

The Conduct of Clinical Trials of Treatments during Public Health Emergencies: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium

February 9, 2018
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Couldn't join us for the event? Check out the panelists' slide presentations below! Description In the past several years, the United States has struggled to respond to viral outbreaks,…

The Petrie-Flom Center Launches the Innovative Funding Models in Translational Research Project

The Petrie-Flom Center

January 30, 2018 - The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is launching the Innovative Funding Models in Translational Research Project to explore the bioethical,…

Health Law Workshop: Aziza Ahmed

October 30, 2017

Presentation Topic: "'Dead But Not Disabled': A Feminist Legal Struggle for Recognition" This paper is not available for download. To request a copy in preparation for the workshop, please contact…

Health Law Workshop: Belinda Bennett

October 23, 2017

Presentation Presentation: "Law, Transformative Technologies and the Automation Age: Lessons from the Past for a High-Tech Future" This paper is not available for download. To request a copy in preparation…

Health Law Workshop: Alicia Ely Yamin

October 2, 2017

Presentation Topic: "Democracy, Health Systems and the Right to Health: Narratives of Charity, Markets and Citizenship" This paper is not available for download. To request a copy in preparation for…

Yale Clinical Fellowship in Global Health Justice, Yale Law School and Yale School of Public Health

Deadline: Strongly encouraged to submit by May 5, 2017
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The Yale Clinical Fellowship in Global Health Justice is a one-year position designed for law and public health graduates as well as other professionals with experience in domestic and/or…

Bioethics Instructor or Assistant Professor, Division of Medical Ethics and Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, NYULMC

Deadline: Open until filled.

The Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (https://med.nyu.edu/child-adolescent-psychiatry/) at NYU Langone Medical Center and the Division of Medical Ethics in the Department of Population Health…

Digital Health @ Harvard Brown Bag Lunch Series: Public Health Echo Chambers in a Time of Mistrust and Misinformation

February 23, 2017

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.…

Travel Abroad for Low-Cost Care: You could save money on cosmetic surgery, dental procedures and other treatments by traveling to another country.

Miriam Cross, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Kiplinger's Personal Finance

From the article: Why the extra effort to court foreign patients? A couple of reasons, according to Patients With Passports (Oxford University Press), by I. Glenn Cohen: to make money …

Global Health Graduate Student Research Seminars (Call for Harvard Student Submissions), Harvard Global Health Institute

Deadline: November 15, 2016

>Check out the full description!

The seminars bring together graduate students from across Harvard University to exchange research ideas in a multidisciplinary setting as they engage with challenging problems related to global health. Graduate…

Student Fellow Alumna Lauren Taylor on the American Health Care Paradox: HMS Center for Bioethics Contemporary Authors in Bioethics Series

Center for Bioethics, Harvard Medical School

Lauren A. Taylor, MPH, MDiv will discuss her book, The American Health Care Paradox: Why Spending More is Getting Us Less. Commentator: John E. McDonough, DrPH, MPA, Professor of the…

Health Law Workshop: Lindsay Wiley

October 24, 2016

Presentation Topic: "Social Norms, Legal Foundations, and Noncommunicable Disease Prevention" This paper is not available for download. To request a copy in preparation for the workshop, please contact Jennifer Minnich…

Is Medical Tourism Ethical?: Profile of I. Glenn Cohen's work as a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar

The Greenwall Foundation

Petrie-Flom Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen served as a Greenwall Foundation Faculty Scholar, Class of 2015. The Greenwall Foundation recently published a profile of Cohen's project, "Is Medical Tourism Ethical?": …

The Summer Olympics And The Zika Virus — Is It Safe To Hold The Games In Brazil?

Jim Braude, interviewing Executive Director Holly Fernandez Lynch
Greater Boston (WGBH)

Olympic athletes going to Rio de Janeiro might come home with more than just a medal. Some public health officials are concerned about athletes, tourists and members of the media…

Review: I Glenn Cohen, Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics, Oxford University

Reviewed by Douglas MacKay
Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal

From the review: Glenn Cohen’s Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics offers a thorough examination of the growing practice of medical tourism, the legal regulations governing…

150 experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because of Zika: Petrie-Flom Center Directors join bioethicists, scientists, and others in an open letter to WHO Director-General

Featuring I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director) and Holly Fernandez Lynch (Executive Director)
Washington Post

More than 100 prominent physicians, bioethicists and scientists from around the world posted a letter Friday urging WHO Director-General Margaret Chan to exert pressure on Olympic authorities to move the Olympics…

Global Tobacco Control as a Public Health and Human Rights Imperative

February 8, 2016

Please join us for a talk by Professors Howard Kyongju Koh and Harold Hongju Koh regarding the battle for global tobacco control and what we as concerned global citizens should…

Inbound medical tourism to Barbados: a qualitative examination of local lawyers’ prospective legal and regulatory concerns

I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director) et al.
BMC Health Services Research

Abstract: Background Enabled by globalizing processes such as trade liberalization, medical tourism is a practice that involves patients’ intentional travel to privately obtain medical care in another country. Empirical…

Just Food?: Forum on Justice in the Food System

March 28 - 29, 2015

A conference exploring the intersections between social, economic, and environmental justice in the food system. Just Food? explored the legal, policy, health, and environmental aspects of modern domestic and international…

Health Law Workshop: Amy Kapczynski

February 23, 2015

Presentation Professor Kapczynski's presentation, "Order Without Intellectual Property Law: The Flu Network as a Case Study in Open Science," is available upon request. Please contact Jennifer Minnich (jminnich@law…

Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics

Robert Klitzman, leading discussion with I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs

Live Webstream Watch the event live online! Description Medical tourism is a growing, multi-billion dollar industry involving millions of patients who travel abroad each year to get health care. Some…

Medical Tourism, Access to Health Care, and Global Justice

I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Health Law & Human Rights

Abstract: Medical tourism – the travel of patients from one (the “home”) country to another (the “destination”) country for medical treatment – represents a growing business.…

A Right to Health?: A lecture by John Tasioulas

February 5, 2015
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Couldn't join us? Watch the full event online! There have been recent calls to establish a framework convention on health grounded in the human right to health. But is…

Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review collaborative blogging with Health Affairs

Petrie-Flom

The Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review was a big success! Video will be posted on our website shortly, but our presenters will be posting on their respective…

Joining Forces: A Story of Science and Religion in Rural Ghana: A lecture by Student Fellow Lauren Taylor

Humanist Community at Harvard

How do science and religion interact in the delivery of mental health care in one region of Ghana? Lauren Taylor will guide a discussion about the value and limits of …

Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review

January 30, 2015
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Couldn't make it in person? Check out the individual sessions in the videos linked above and the collaborative blog series on the Health Affairs Blog (links below)! The Third…

Academic Fellow Rachel Sachs Guest Lecturing in Reading Group at Harvard Law School

Petrie-Flom Center

Petrie-Flom Academic Fellow Rachel E. Sachs will be a regular guest lecturer in a reading group at Harvard Law School, co-taught by with Professors Terry Fisher and Mark Wu in…

Outbreak: Developing New Medical Products for Epidemics,: A lecture by Peter Hutt

January 15, 2015
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Video of the lecture and following discussion are available online. The recent outbreak of Ebola has called attention to the substantial difficulties associated with developing and testing new products for…

Interview with Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen about “Patients with Passports”: Cohen paints a picture--a mural--of the many kinds of medical tourism

Geoffrey Riley and Charlotte Duren
Jefferson Public Radio (Oregon)

If your doctor won't recommend a medical procedure you want, you can go to another doctor. But would you travel to another country for the procedure? And how about…

I. Glenn Cohen discusses the Ebola crisis

America's Forum, NewsMax TV

Harvard Law professor and medical ethics expert talks about how the Ebola crisis is just one example of how Americans and other travelers are at risk for deadly disease when…

Book Launch: Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics

November 19, 2014
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I. Glenn Cohen's new book Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2014) is the first comprehensive legal and ethical analysis of medical tourism. Examining both…