News, Resources, and Events Tagged "Health Law Policy"
Apply now! Call for Applications: Petrie-Flom Student Fellowship 2023-2024, Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School
The Center and Student Fellowship The Center and Student Fellowship. The Petrie-Flom Center Student Fellowship Program is designed to mentor students seeking to become thought leaders in health law policy…
Call for Applications: Petrie-Flom Student Fellowship 2022-2023, Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School
The Center and Student Fellowship The Center and Student Fellowship. The Petrie-Flom Center Student Fellowship Program is designed to mentor students seeking to become thought leaders in health law policy…
Call for Applications: Petrie-Flom Student Fellowship 2021-2022, Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School
The Center and Student Fellowship The Center and Student Fellowship. The Petrie-Flom Center Student Fellowship Program is designed to mentor students seeking to become thought leaders in health law policy…
Call for Applications: Petrie-Flom Student Fellowship 2020-2021, Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School
The Center and Student Fellowship The Petrie-Flom Center Student Fellowship Program is designed to mentor students seeking to become thought leaders in health law policy and bioethics. The fellowship supports…
American Health Lawyers’ Association
The American Health Lawyers' Association (AHLA) offers free membership to all individuals enrolled full time at a law or graduate school. Membership includes: access to the Association…
Register now! Locked in a Hotbox: The Impact of Climate Change on the Incarcerated
Event Description Locked in a Hotbox: The Impact of Climate Change on the Incarcerated will be a critical examination of how climate change impacts people who are incarcerated. Many…
Register now! A New Way Home: Medicaid & Reentry Symposium
Event Description On April 1, 2024, from 9:00AM-6:00PM (EDT) join the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School (CHLPI) and the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute …
Register Now! New Ideas for Substance Use Condition Treatment: Could Psychedelics Help?
Event Description New Ideas for Substance Use Condition Treatment: Could Psychedelics Help? will provide an overview of psychedelic treatments, including ibogaine and psilocybin, for substance use conditions. During…
Power and Money in Global Health: A conversation with Tim Schwab about “The Bill Gates Problem: Reckoning with the Myth of the Good Billionaire”
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…
Video Available Now! Unionization in Health Care: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Event Description For millions who work in health care settings, including doctors, nurses, technicians, home health and nursing home workers, and environmental services and nutrition specialists, the difficult days of…
Video Now Available! The Pandemic’s Legal Legacy: A Book Talk with Experts on the Ethical, Legal, Regulatory, Social, and Institutional Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Event Description We marked the publication of COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact and Legacy, an edited volume based on the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2021 annual conference, published in…
Medicare Advantage: Growth Amidst Mounting Scrutiny,
The Medicare Advantage Program, home to nearly half of the eligible Medicare population, has recently come under increased scrutiny. The Government Accountability Office called on the Centers for Medicare &…
From Principles to Practice: Critical Reflections on Human Rights Advocacy in Public Health Emergency Prevention, Preparedness and Response
Event Description Leading experts in health and human rights shared the capstone webinar to Harvard Petrie-Flom Center's Bill of Health symposium on the 2023 Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights…
Video now available! Aligning Criminal Practice with Addiction Science
Event Description Drawing on the science of substance use disorders (SUD), this presentation focusws on legal responses to SUD that contradict neuroscience and behavioral research, such as incarcerating individuals on…
Young, Vulnerable, and Betrayed: What can be done to help America’s most vulnerable children?
Event Description A child born in America today has a 37% chance of having their welfare investigated by the state by the time they turn 18. For black children, the probability rises…
The Quantified Worker: Book Talk
Event Description The information revolution has ushered in a data-driven reorganization of the workplace. Big data and AI are used to surveil workers and shift risk. Workplace wellness programs appraise…
Video now available! Psychedelic Law and U.S. Military Veterans
Event Description Military veterans and active-duty service members experience unique stressors and are heavily impacted by depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and suicide. As part of the evolving psychedelic renaissance, researchers…
What rights do and should stakeholders have for medical data? A survey of patients, physicians, and hospital administrators,
We examine perceived and idea ownership of US patient medical data as governed by HIPPA in a survey of three stakeholder groups: patients, primary care physicians, and medical administrators. Current…
Video now available! Toward a More Effective, Equitable Pandemic Response
Event Description If the COVID-19 pandemic was a stress test for multilateral cooperation, the world failed both in relation to intellectual property regimes and economic solidarity. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed…
Video now available! When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: A Harvard Law School Library Book Talk
Event Description Join the HLS Library on Wednesday October 4 at 1pm ET for a HLS Library Book Talk on When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and…
Video now available! How ChatGPT and Other Digital Tools are Transforming Medical Diagnosis
Event Description Studies have shown that ChatGPT -- a generative AI chatbot -- can help to diagnose a number of medical conditions. But generative AI is just one buzzy development…
Health Policy & Bioethics Consortia: The Indian Health Service: Improving Health Equity or Failing to Meet Obligations?
Event Description The Indian Health Service (IHS) is the federal agency responsible for delivering health care services to American Indians and Alaskan Natives. Despite treaty obligations, the IHS has been…
Abortion Politics Worldwide and the Future of Gender Equality
Event Description Please join us for a celebration of the publication of Research Handbook on International Abortion Law sponsored by the Forum for Gender Law and Policy at the…
Neuroscience & Society Virtual Career Fair
Event Description The event will feature presentations from leading experts in neuroscience & society will occur during the first hour (7-8 PM EST) & networking opportunities in the second hour (…
2023 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Health Law as Private Law
Conference Description The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce plans for our 2023 annual conference: “Health Law as Private…
Feminist Revolt and the Constitution: Abortion Activism on the Island of Ireland with Dr Jane Rooney
Event Description Dr Rooney's current project uses narrative interviews on peoples' experiences in reform of the law on abortion in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland to critically…
Video now available! Psychedelics in the Global South
Event Description Interest in psychedelic research is growing internationally. Scientists are advancing our understanding of the chemistry and biology of psychedelics, as well as their effects on human health, psychology,…
Video now available! The Battle for Your Brain: A conversation with Professor Nita Farahany about her new book and defending the right to think freely in the age of neurotechnology.
Event Description A new dawn of brain tracking and hacking is coming. Will you be prepared for what comes next? Imagine a world where your brain can be interrogated to…
Video now available! Neuroscience and Cannabis: Implications for Law and Policy
Event Description The legalization of cannabis has raised significant questions for law and public policy. In this public event, neuroscientist Dr. Yasmin Hurd explored the science of cannabis, CBD, and…
Unwired: Gaining Control over Addictive Technologies
Event Description Our society has a technology problem. Many want to disconnect from screens but can’t help themselves. These days we spend more time online than ever. Some…
Order now! COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact and Legacy
This edited volume is based on the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2021 annual conference, which, in partnership with the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School,…
Video now available! When the Science Says Children But the Law Says Adults: Trying and Sentencing Youth as Adults
Event Description All 50 states have transfer laws that either allow or require children to be prosecuted in adult criminal court for certain offenses. Attorney Marsha Levick, Esq. provided an overview…
Video now available! Psychedelics in the Global North
Event Description In partnership with the RAND Drug Policy Research Center, the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR) at the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School is pleased to…
Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health: Strategies for avoiding potential data harms
Event Description Applications of algorithmic and data-driven technologies in mental health care settings are rapidly expanding. While well-designed digital technologies may be used to promote effective…
Video now available! Achieving Telehealth’s Potential: The State Policy Landscape for Interstate Telehealth Practices
Event Description Telehealth has been an invaluable tool for preserving health care access during the pandemic. Early in the pandemic, policymakers on the federal and state level moved with remarkable…
Video now available! Achieving Telehealth’s Potential: The Federal Policy Landscape for Interstate Telehealth Practices
Event Description Telehealth has been an invaluable tool for preserving health care access during the pandemic. Early in the pandemic, policymakers on the federal and state level moved with remarkable…
Video now available! Achieving Telehealth’s Potential: The Policy Landscape’s Impact on Specialty Care
Event Description Telehealth has been an invaluable tool for preserving health care access during the pandemic. Early in the pandemic, policymakers on the federal and state level moved with remarkable…
Video now available! Climate Change and Health: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Event Description As one of the largest economic sectors globally, health care represents nearly 10% of GDP spending across O.E.C.D. countries. This significant activity produces an estimated 5-10%…
Video now available! What Magic Can Teach Us About Misinformation
Event Description This panel joined together the fields of medicine, magic, and ethics. We explored how misinformation and disinformation about health is created and spread, and how expectation violation…
Video now available! Comparing Legal Approaches to Accessing Psychedelics
Event Description Voters, lawmakers, and healthcare providers are experimenting with legal approaches to accessing psychedelics. Some take medical approaches by allocating funds for research or leveraging controversial federal policies like…
Disclosed: Conflicts of Interest in the Psychedelics Ecosystem
Event Description In recent years, a growing number of observers have raised concerns about conflicts of interests in the growing psychedelics industry. Beginning with a discussion of cases that have…
Informed Consent in Psychedelic Therapy and Research: Why is it Complicated?
Event Description As psychedelics are quickly becoming implemented into the Western therapeutic medical model, ethical codes and boundaries are essential to ensure safe practices with these substances. An important topic…
Violence in Healthcare: A Growing Crisis
Event Description The threat of violence in the sanctum of the hospital and in the outpatient setting is growing. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a 63% increase in violent attacks…
Video now available! What Can the Psychedelics Industry Learn from Cannabis Regulation?
Event Description Psychedelics have recently become a serious topic of legal reform and intense commercial investment. In the past few years, dozens of cities and states have enacted or proposed…
Call for submissions! Call For Submissions – Symposium on Disability and Climate Change
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – SYMPOSIUM ON DISABILITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, the Harvard Law School Project on…
Video now available! Book Talk: Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in America
Event Description On November 3rd, we hosted a book talk and moderated discussion with author Lewis A. Grossman on his new book, Choose Your Medicine: Freedom of Therapeutic Choice in…
Video now available! Life Sentences for Children?: The Neuroscientific Basis for Limitations on Harsh Sentencing
Event Description Neuroscience is playing a key role in legal decisions about children and young adults serving life sentences. The US Supreme Court relied upon research on adolescent brain development…
Video now available! Abortion Rights and Reproductive Justice in Latin America: Recent Landmark Decisions from Mexico and Colombia
Viewing Options Watch the fully captioned event recording. Read the event coverage: Liz Mineo, "Lesson from Latin America for U.S. abortion rights movement," The Harvard Gazette (October 26, 2022). …
Race and Psychedelics: How Can We Do Better?
Event Description There have been many supported theories as to whether and how psychedelics and plant medicines can further our perception and understanding of identity. However, we still see systemic…
Call for Papers: Northeastern University School of Law Annual Health Law Conference, Northeastern University School of Law, Center for Health Policy and Law
From the call: Health misinformation and disinformation are creating significant harms to public health and health care systems across the globe. The US Office of the Surgeon General has…
Professor and Bernard J. Beazley Chair in Health Law and Policy, Tenured, School of Law, Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University Chicago School of Law’s Beazley Institute for Health Law & Policy is seeking candidates to fill its Beazley Chair in Health Law and Policy. The prestigious…
Video now available! FDA and Emergency Response
Learn more about the FDA’s emergency response to issues such as COVID-19, monkeypox, and infant formula. On September 20th, we hosted a discussion of these topics and more…
Video now available! Creating Sustainable Infrastructure for Pandemic Preparedness and Response
Online Viewing View the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #PandemicPreparedness. Watch the fully captioned event recording. Event Description The COVID-19 pandemic has reinvigorated the national and global…
Legislation Restricting Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth: Politics eclipse healthcare
In the past two years, in 25 US states, bills have been introduced to restrict access to gender-affirming medical care for minors. Some have already become law. We show how…
Video now available! Dobbs v. Jackson: Understanding the Post-Roe Landscape
Online Viewing Watch the fully captioned event video. Read the event coverage: Brett Milano, "'A seismic moment in Constitutional history:' Experts in law and medicine examine the…
Connecticut Moves to Blunt Impact of Other States’ Anti-Abortion Laws
“The law lets abortion providers take solace and confidently provide care for their patients and worry less about these frivolous, vigilante lawsuits thrown at them,” said Katherine L.…
The Role of Health as a Human Right in Universal Health Coverage
The Role of Health as a Human Right in Universal Health Coverage
Videos now available! 2022 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Diagnosing in the Home: The Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Diagnostics and Therapeutics Outside of Traditional Clinical Settings
Even prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, health care delivery was already shifting away from the clinic and into the home, utilizing telehealth, wearable sensors, ambient surveillance, and other products. The…
Generating Evidence from Expanded Access Use of Rare Disease Medicines: Challenges and Recommendations
Patients with rare diseases often have limited or no options for approved treatments or participation in clinical trials. In such cases, expanded access (or “compassionate use”) provides a…
Buffalo shooting ignites a debate over the role of genetics researchers in white supremacist ideology
The 18-year-old gunman suspected of carrying out a racist attack that killed 10 and injured three people in Buffalo, N.Y., last weekend left no questions about why he drove 200 miles…
Video now availble! Considering the Needs of the Vulnerable in the Next Stage of the Pandemic
Online Viewing View the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #COVID22. Watch the fully captioned event recording. Event Description After two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is flagging…
An obscure law could jeopardize profits for startups racing to get in on the first legal magic-mushroom market in the US
An obscure law could jeopardize profits for startups racing to get in on the first legal magic-mushroom market in the US.
At the Cutting Edge
Delivered talk for “At the Cutting Edge,” the Regulation and Innovation in the Biosciences Junior Scholars Workshop at the University of Iowa College of Law.
At the Cutting Edge
Delivered talk for “At the Cutting Edge,” the Regulation and Innovation in the Biosciences Junior Scholars Workshop at the University of Iowa College of Law.
Video now available! The Science of Addiction
View the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #LawAndNeuro. View the fully captioned event recording. Event Description Advances in the scientific understanding of addiction have important…
At the Cutting Edge
Delivered talk for “At the Cutting Edge,” the Regulation and Innovation in the Biosciences Junior Scholars Workshop at the University of Iowa College of Law.
Harvard Law School professors call potential abortion rights rollback ‘unprecedented’
It is “close to unprecedented or unprecedented” for the Supreme Court of the United States to “undo[…] rights that were viewed as constitutionally central for half…
Why a growing number of Latin American countries are legalizing abortion
As Americans contemplate living in a country where Roe versus Wade is overturned, a very different story is playing out in many parts of Latin America. In recent years, countries…
Video now available! Roe in Limbo: A Townhall on the Leaked Dobbs Opinion
Online Viewing View the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #RoeInLimbo. View the fully captioned event recording. Event Description The leak of a draft opinion for Dobbs…
Better fat bubbles could power a new generation of mRNA vaccines
As any dietician will tell you, some fats are good—and that is surely true of the little fatty balls found in two of the world’s most…
When Is a Change Significant? The Update Problem of Apps in Medical and Behavioral Research
Digital applications (apps) are commonly used across the research ecosystem. While apps are frequently updated in the course of clinical and behavioral research, there is limited guidance as to when…
Video now available! Allocating Scarce Medical Resources: Equity and Justice Concerns
Online Viewing View the conversation at Twitter @PetrieFlom using #CrisStanCare. Watch the fully captioned recording. Event Description Crisis standards of care are guidelines that inform health care systems…
Video now available! Medical Justice and the Carceral State, Part 3: The Doctor's White Coat vs. The Officer's Uniform: Who Calls the Shots?
Online Viewing View the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #MedicalJustice. Watch the fully captioned event recording. Event Description Who decides when people in prison will receive…
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: Using Innovative Data Science Approaches to Identify Individuals, Populations, and Communities at High Risk for Suicide
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine: Using Innovative Data Science Approaches to Identify Individuals, Populations, and Communities at High Risk for Suicide
Legal experts express shock at rare Supreme Court leak on major abortion rights case: ‘Highly disturbing’
Legal experts expressed shock and concern on Monday evening after Politico released what it says is a draft opinion on a major abortion rights case that's still…
Former nurse speaks out after sentencing in fatal drug error
Former nurse speaks out after sentencing in fatal drug error.
The Ethics and Laws of Medical Big Data
Debates on the human-rights implications of new and emerging technologies have been hampered by the lack of a comprehensive theoretical framework for the complex issues involved. This volume provides that…
Health AI for Good Rather Than Evil? The Need for a New Regulatory Framework for AI-Based Medical Devices
Artificial intelligence (AI), especially its subset machine learning, has tremendous potential to improve health care. However, health AI also raises new regulatory challenges. In this Article, I argue that there…
The Inexorable Logic of Priority-Setting: Just Four Choices for Courts?
Can public health care rights be reduced to just four choices? Even in countries with different cultures and resources, do “access” rights always depend on blending: (1) individual and…
Australia Moves Ahead Cautiously With ‘3-Parent IVF’
“There was a lot of excitement when the UK first legalized this several years ago, so it's surprising that there haven't been reports of failures or successes…
Video now available! Emerging Policy Opportunities for Community-Based Serious Illness Care
View the conversationon on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #AdvancedCare. Watch the fully captioned event recording. Event Description The pandemic has accelerated trends moving the delivery of care into…
Handle with Care: The WHO Report on Human Genome Editing
The World Health Organization’s recent Report on Human Genome Editing departs from similar reports from other institutions in that it recognizes that ethical assessments of the technology are…
Stamping Out the Medicaid Coverage Gap: An ACA Imperative
In one of its most striking features, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) expanded Medicaid eligibility for nearly all U.S. citizens and legal resident adults between the…
Patent battles
What counts as an original invention? What does it mean to be an inventor? If a data-crunching, machine-learning artificial intelligence system generates something that its human programmer never conceived,…
When it comes to removing mask mandates, who should decide — the law, or public health?
"I think from a social point of view, it's a really unsatisfying answer to say 'okay, well, people should just decide," said Carmel Shachar, executive director of Harvard Petrie-Flom…
The CMS Vaccine Mandate at the Supreme Court: A Hippocratic Imperative
On January 13, 2022, in a 5-4 decision in Biden v. Missouri, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed 2 lower court decisions enjoining the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) vaccine mandate.…
Neuroscience and Law Experts Discuss Cannabis and Public Policy at Harvard Law School Panel
Experts in neuroscience and law discussed the legalization of cannabis and highlighted its implications for public policy at a virtual panel hosted by Harvard Law School’s Petrie-Flom Center…
It’s Almost Impossible to Find Out Which Covid Variant You Got
Last month, shortly after returning home from a bachelorette party, I tested positive for Covid. Twelve of us spent a weekend packed together in carefree revelry, including a night of…
Presentación del segundo tomo del Tratado Ecofeminista de Derechos Humanos
El pasado 21 de abril, en el Salón Verde, tuvo lugar la presentación del libro Tratado Ecofeminista de Derechos Humanos. Derechos Humanos para el Buen Vivir.…
Video now available! Neuroscience and Cannabis: Implications for Law and Policy
Watch the fully captioned event recording. Read the event coverage: Clea Simon, "Neuroscientist says jury still out on addictive qualities, effects on neurodevelopment of fetuses, adolescents," The…
Health Priority Setting with Alicia Yamin
Alicia Yamin spoke about her work on fostering meaningful citizen participation in health priority setting during a recent CHDS seminar. Yamin is a lecturer on Law and Senior Fellow…
Immaculate Conception? Priority and Invention in the CRISPR Patent Dispute
The U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), in an interference proceeding decided in February 2022, concluded that researchers at the Broad Institute (Cambridge, MA) were the first to &ldquo…