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Enhancing the Ethics of User-Sourced Online Data Collection and Sharing image

Enhancing the Ethics of User-Sourced Online Data Collection and Sharing

Michelle Meyer, et al.
Nature Computational Science

Social media and other internet platforms are making it even harder for researchers to investigate their effects on society. One way forward is user-sourced data collection of data to be…

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The Unsettled Debate at the Heart of the Henrietta Lacks Case

Peter Coy
New York Times

“People think that because they have autonomy over their physical body, that means they have a, quote, property interest in it. That is just bluntly wrong,” Jacob Sherkow,…

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Responding to the Call to Meaningfully Assess Institutional Review Board Effectiveness

Holly Fernandez Lynch, et al.
JAMA

Independent review and oversight have long been recognized as requirements for ethical research involving human participants, leading institutional review boards (IRBs) to become deeply entrenched in the research enterprise. Against…

El derecho a la salud’ como derecho humano: Abordaje conceptual transdisciplinar

María Natalia Echegoyemberry (Affiliated Researcher)
Investigaciones Sociojurídicas Contemporáneas, published by En Memoria Académica.

En el momento presente es usual escuchar, en los discursos de expertos o funcionarios públicos nacionales e internacionales (Kestel, OPS, 2019), sobre la necesidad de una mirada transdisciplinar e…

“I’d feel like someone was watchin’ me… watching for a good reason”: perceptions of data privacy, access, and sharing in the context of real-time PrEP adherence monitoring among HIV-negative MSM with image

“I’d feel like someone was watchin’ me… watching for a good reason”: perceptions of data privacy, access, and sharing in the context of real-time PrEP adherence monitoring among HIV-negative MSM with

Georgia R. Goodman et al., including I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
AIDS and Behavior

Once-daily oral tenofovir/emtricitabine is highly effective as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) against HIV but is dependent on adherence, which may be challenging for men who have sex with men (MSM)…

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Direct participation of people with communication disabilities in research on poverty and disabilities in low and middle income countries: A critical review

Caroline Jagoe, Caitlin McDonald, Minerva Rivas (Visiting Scholar), and Nora Groce
PLOS One

An estimated 1 billion people with disabilities live in low and middle income countries, a population that includes people with communication disabilities (PwCD). PwCD are a heterogenous group with a wide…

Call for Participation: Sixth Annual Health Law Works-in-Progress Retreat at Seton Hall Law School, Seton Hall Law School

Deadline: February 04, 2022

WHEN Session 1: February 4, 2022, from 12:30-4:00 p.m. EST Session 2: February 11, 2022, 12:30-4:00 p.m. EST WHERE Virtual TARGET AUDIENCE Persons with an academic appointment in health law, including…

Call for Applications: Grants Manager, Harvard Law School

Deadline: Open until filled.

Job Summary Reporting to the Senior Sponsored Program Administrator, and in close collaboration with grant recipients, the Grants Manager is responsible for supporting the financial and administrative management of HLS…

Call for Applications: Associate Director of Public Policy, Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R)

Deadline: Open until filled.
PRIM&R

Job Title: Associate Director of Public Policy Department: Public Policy Reports to: Executive Director Overview: Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R) is an…

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Curbside Consults in Clinical Medicine: Empirical and Liability Challenges

Rachel L. Zacharias, Eric A. Feldman, Steven Joffe, and Holly Fernandez Lynch (Former Executive Director)
Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics

Abstract In most U.S. jurisdictions, clinicians providing informal “curbside” consults are protected from medical malpractice liability due to the absence of a doctor-patient relationship. A recent Minnesota…

PORTAL Fellowship, Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Medicine and Harvard Medical School

Deadline: January 28, 2022
Ameet Sarpatwari, Ph.D., J.D.

The Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Medicine and Harvard Medical School invites its 2022 round of applications for postdoctoral fellows in pharmaceutical…

Call for Applications: Senior Sponsored Research Administrator, Harvard Law School

Deadline: Open until filled.

Job-Specific Responsibilities Reporting to the Associate Dean for Finance/CFO, the Senior Sponsored Programs Administrator engages with Harvard Law School’s research programs and faculty-sponsored research areas as a…

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Preprint servers and patent prior art

Jacob S. Sherkow (Former Edmond J. Safra/Petrie-Flom Centers Joint Fellow-in-Residence)
EMBO Reports

Posting papers on preprint servers creates patent 'prior art' and is likely to affect the patentability of any underlying invention.

Warning: Oregon Legalized Supported Adult Use of Psilocybin, Not Psychedelic Therapy image

Warning: Oregon Legalized Supported Adult Use of Psilocybin, Not Psychedelic Therapy

Mason Marks (Senior Fellow and Project Lead on the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation)
Chacruna

During the 2020 presidential election, over 55 percent of Oregon voters approved Measure 109, also called the Oregon Psilocybin Services Act. With this historic vote, Oregon became the first state to legalize the…

Researchers, Bioethicists Discuss the Future of Psychedelic Therapy in Petrie-Flom Webinar image

Researchers, Bioethicists Discuss the Future of Psychedelic Therapy in Petrie-Flom Webinar

Brandon L. Kingdollar and Waseem S. Nabulsi, featuring Carmel Shachar (Executive Director) and Holly Fernandez Lynch (Former Executive Director)
The Harvard Crimson

Experts in the fields of psychedelics, health care, and bioethics gathered virtually to discuss the ethical implications of psychedelic-assisted therapy in a webinar held by Harvard Law School’s…

Responsible use of polygenic risk scores in the clinic: potential benefits, risks and gaps image

Responsible use of polygenic risk scores in the clinic: potential benefits, risks and gaps

Polygenic Risk Score Task Force of the International Common Disease Alliance, including Michelle N. Meyer (Former Academic Fellow)
Nature Medicine

Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) aggregate the many small effects of alleles across the human genome to estimate the risk of a disease or disease-related trait for an individual. The potential…

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Dems resurrect a scaled back plan for Medicare drug price negotiations

Zachary Brennan, featuring Jonathan Darrow (Former Student Fellow)
Endpoints News

Only a few days after President Joe Biden seemed to signal that drug pricing reforms were left for dead, Democrats are already circulating plans for a scaled-back version of what…

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Integrating Supported Decision-Making into the Clinical Research Process

Barbara E. Bierer, Ari Ne’eman, Willyanne DeCormier Plosky, David H. Strauss, Benjamin C. Silverman, and Michael Ashley Stein (Affiliated Faculty)
The American Journal of Bioethics

Peterson, Karlawish, and Largent’s (2021) “Supported Decision Making with People at the Margins of Autonomy” brings welcome attention to the rights of people with cognitive impairment and…

Multiple Job Openings: Baylor Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine

Deadline: Open until filled

Positions include: Postdoctoral Associate - ELSI/Ethics & Policy Research - Forensic Use of DNA Bioethics Research Assistant I - Ethical, Social and Legal Issues of Genomics Bioethics and Health…

The Biden Administration’s Proposal for an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health

Eli Y. Adashi and I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
JAMA

Intent on bolstering the “Beau Biden Cancer Moonshot” of the 21st Century Cures Act, President Biden has been advocating for an Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H)…

Some Dana-Farber Cancer Institute trustees stood to profit from their philanthropic role image

Some Dana-Farber Cancer Institute trustees stood to profit from their philanthropic role

Liz Kowalczyk, Sarah L. Ryley and Patricia Wen, featuring I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
The Boston Globe

Boston’s top cancer center has long supported its trustees who invest in, and run, its startup companies. But after questions brought to them by the Globe Spotlight Team,…

Collaboration in times of crisis: A study on COVID-19 vaccine R&D partnerships

Louise C. Druedahl, Timo Minssen, W. Nicholson Price (Former Academic Fellow)
Vaccine

Collaboration is central for initiatives and efforts in the race to fight COVID-19, with particular focus on fostering rapid development of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines. We investigated the types…

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Patient data ownership: who owns your health?

Kathleen Liddell, David A. Simon (Research Fellow, Digital Home Health), and Anneke Lucassen
Journal of Law and the Biosciences

This article answers two questions from the perspective of United Kingdom law and policy: (i) is health information property? and (ii) should it be? We argue that special features of…

A Snapshot of U.S. IRB Review of COVID-19 Research in the Early Pandemic image

A Snapshot of U.S. IRB Review of COVID-19 Research in the Early Pandemic

Holly A. Taylor, Kimberley Serpico Holly Fernandez Lynch (Former Executive Director), John Baumann and Emily E. Anderson
Journal of Clinical and Translational Science

Background/Objective: Along with the greater research enterprise, Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) had to quickly adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic. IRBs had to review and oversee COVID-related research, while navigating…

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Mitochondrial disease: Replace or edit?

Eli Y. Adashi, Donald S. Rubenstein, Jim A. Mossman, Eric A. Schon, and I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Science

Maternal transmission of a wide spectrum of mutant alleles of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) gives rise to metabolic diseases of differing penetrance, presentation, and prognosis to offspring. Only a proportion of…

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Governance Choices of Genome Editing Patents

Naomi Scheinerman and Jacob S. Sherkow (Former Edmond J. Safra/Petrie-Flom Centers Joint Fellow-in-Residence)
Frontiers in Political Science

There are a variety of governance mechanisms concerning the ownership and use of patents. These include government licenses, compulsory licenses, march-in rights for inventions created with federal funding, government use…

Application for Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Research Associate in Bioethics, Center for Human Values at Princeton University

Deadline: November 15, 2021
Regina Davis

609-258-2739

The Princeton University Center for Human Values invites applications for the Harold T. Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellowship in Bioethics for a position starting in September 2022. The Shapiro Fellowship supports outstanding scholars…

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The Alchemy of Agency: Reflections on Supported Decision-Making, Health Systems and the Right to Health

Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights)
Mental Health, Legal Capacity, and Human Rights

Since adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the interpretive General Comment 1, the topic of legal capacity in mental health settings has generated considerable debate…

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Enforcement of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act: Trust and Verify

Eli Y. Adashi and I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
JAMA

The Open Payments Program, the product of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, also known as section 6002 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, obligates “any applicable manufacturer that…

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Negative innovation: When patents are bad for patients

Robin C. Feldman, David A. Hyman, W. Nicholson Price II (Academic Fellow Alumnus), and Mark J. Ratain
Nature Biotechnology

Incentives in patent law have driven innovation into spaces that are affirmatively harmful to patients, and patentees are discouraged from taking steps to improve the product so as to prevent…

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Addressing Exclusivity Issues During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director), Abbe Gluck, Katherine Kraschel, and Carmel Shachar (Executive Director)
Social Science Research Network

Almost every aspect of the COVID-19 response, from vaccines, diagnostics, and therapeutics to medical equipment, tracking systems, software, and other innovations, are or will become subject to some form of…

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Effect of Targeted Behavioral Science Messages on COVID-19 Vaccination Registration Among Employees of a Large Health System: A Randomized Trial

Henri C. Santos, Amir Goren, Christopher F. Chabris, Michelle N. Meyer (Academic Fellow Alumnus)
JAMA

During the 3-day study period, an individual email nudge caused more than twice as many HCWs to register for a COVID-19 vaccination compared with HCWs in the control condition, with…

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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…

Call for Applications: Research Fellow for the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR) image

Apply now! Call for Applications: Research Fellow for the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR), Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School

Deadline: Filled.

Overview The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is hiring a full-time postdoctoral fellow to support its newly launched Project on Psychedelics Law…

Few new drugs deserve expedited regulatory treatment image

Few new drugs deserve expedited regulatory treatment

Jonathan J Darrow (Affiliated Faculty)
Journal of Managed Care and Specialty Pharmacy

Safety testing of new drugs has been required since the 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, but applications were automatically approved under that law unless the US Food and Drug…

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Plumbing the Depths of Ethical Payment for Research Participation

Holly Fernandez Lynch, Thomas C. Darton, Jae Levy, et al.
The American Journal of Bioethics

Full author list: Holly Fernandez Lynch (Former Executive Director), Thomas C. Darton, Jae Levy, Frank McCormick, Ubaka Ogbogu, Ruth O. Payne, Alvin E. Roth, Akilah Jefferson Shah, Thomas Smiley, and…

Ethical Inclusion of Health Care Workers in Covid‐19 Research image

Ethical Inclusion of Health Care Workers in Covid‐19 Research

Holly Fernandez Lynch (Former Executive Director), Dawn Lundin, and Emma A. Meagher
Ethics & Human Research

Employees are often considered a vulnerable research population due to concerns about consent and confidentiality, but there is insufficient guidance regarding their ethical inclusion in research. In the context of…

An ethics framework for consolidating and prioritizing COVID-19 clinical trials image

An ethics framework for consolidating and prioritizing COVID-19 clinical trials

Michelle Meyer, L. Gelinas, B. Bierer, S. C. Hull, S. Joffe, et al.
Clinical Trials

Full Author List: Michelle Meyer (Former Academic Fellow), Luke Gelinas, Barbara Bierer, Sara Chandros Hull, Steven Joffe, David Magnus, Seema Mohapatra, Richard Sharp, Kayte Spector-Bagdady, Jeremy Sugarman, Benjamin Wilfond, and…

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Read more! The Petrie-Flom Center Launches New Project: Diagnosing in the Home: The Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Home Health

Petrie-Flom Center

Diagnosing in the Home will seek to examine the ethical, social, and legal challenges of digital home health products, with a focus on home diagnosis of infectious and chronic conditions. …

Accuracy of US College Football Players’ Estimates of Their Risk of Concussion or Injury image

Accuracy of US College Football Players’ Estimates of Their Risk of Concussion or Injury

Christine M. Baugh (Former Student Fellow), Emily Kroshus, William P. Meehan III, Thomas G. McGuire, and Laura A. Hatfield
JAMA Network Open

Importance Despite increased concern about the health consequences of contact sports, little is known about athletes’ understanding of their own risk of sports-related injury. Objective To assess whether college…

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Evidence Supporting the Value of Surgical Procedures: Can We Do Better?

Jonathan J. Darrow (Former Student Fellow), Christopher T. Robertson (Former Academic Fellow), and Willard S. Kasoff
The American Surgeon

There is an acknowledged need for higher-quality evidence to quantify the benefit of surgical procedures, yet not enough has been done to improve the evidence base. This lack of evidence…

Genomics: Rewriting Our Health image

Genomics: Rewriting Our Health

Walter Isaacson, featuring I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson

Recombinant DNA. The double helix. Mapping the human genome. You know these are all related to our genes, but you might now know how, or what connects them. In this…

Realizing Present and Future Promise of DIY Biology and Medicine through a Trust Architecture image

Realizing Present and Future Promise of DIY Biology and Medicine through a Trust Architecture

Lisa M. Rasmussen, Christi J. Guerrini, Todd Kuiken, Camille Nebeker, Alex Pearlman (Former Communications Manager), et al.
The Hastings Center Report

Complete author list: Lisa M. Rasmussen, Christi J. Guerrini, Todd Kuiken, Camille Nebeker, Alex Pearlman (Former Communications Manager), Sarah B. Ware, Anna Wexler, and Patricia J. Zettler. Abstract The speed…

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Compensating for research risk: permissible but not obligatory

Holly Lynch Fernandez (Former Executive Director) and Emily A. Largent (Former Student Fellow)
Journal of Medical Ethics

When payment is offered for controlled human infection model (CHIM) research, ethical concerns may be heightened due to unfamiliarity with this study design as well as perceptions—and misperceptions…

What is—and should be—the military’s role in COVID-19 research? image

What is—and should be—the military’s role in COVID-19 research?

Jacob S. Sherkow (Former Edmond J. Safra Center and Petrie-Flom Center Fellow in Ethics of Technology and Biomedical Innovation), et al.
Written Description

Complete authors list: Jacob S. Sherkow (Former Edmond J. Safra Center and Petrie-Flom Center Fellow in Ethics of Technology and Biomedical Innovation), Lisa Larrimore Ouellette, Nicholson Price (Former Academic Fellow),…

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Majority of Respondents Support Chimeric Animal Research: Survey

Amanda Heidt, interviewing Francis Shen (Senior Fellow in Law and Applied Neuroscience)
The Scientist

Human-animal chimeric embryos—organisms created using cells from two or more species—have the potential to change how researchers study disease and generate organs and tissues for human…

No Easy Answers in Allocating Unapproved COVID-19 Drugs Outside Clinical Trials image

No Easy Answers in Allocating Unapproved COVID-19 Drugs Outside Clinical Trials

Jamie Webb, Lesha Shah, Holly Fernandez Lynch (Former Executive Director)
American Journal of Bioethics

In our Target Article, "Ethically Allocating COVID-19 Drugs via Pre-Approved Access and Emergency Use Authorization," we tackle unique allocation challenges at the intersection of research and clinical care, offering an…

Ethically Allocating COVID-19 Drugs Via Pre-approval Access and Emergency Use Authorization image

Ethically Allocating COVID-19 Drugs Via Pre-approval Access and Emergency Use Authorization

Jamie Webb, Lesha D. Shah, Holly Fernandez Lynch (Former Executive Director)
American Journal of Bioethics

Allocating access to unapproved COVID-19 drugs available via Pre-Approval Access pathways or Emergency Use Authorization raises unique challenges at the intersection of clinical care and research. In conditions of scarcity,…

Why translational medicine is, in fact, “new,” why this matters, and the limits of a predominantly epistemic historiography image

Why translational medicine is, in fact, “new,” why this matters, and the limits of a predominantly epistemic historiography

Mark Robinson (Student Fellow Alumnus)
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences

Is Translational Science and Medicine new? Its dramatic expansion has spelled a dizzying array of new disciplines, departments, buildings, and terminology. Yet, without novel theories or concepts, Translational Science and…

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Objecting to experiments even while approving of the policies or treatments they compare

Patrick R. Hecka, Christopher F. Chabrisb, Duncan J. Wattsc, and Michelle N. Meyer (Academic Fellow Alumna)
PNAS

We resolve a controversy over two competing hypotheses about why people object to randomized experiments: 1) People unsurprisingly object to experiments only when they object to a policy or treatment the…

Call for Submissions: Journal of Law and Biosciences, “Law and Ethics in the Time of a Global Pandemic” image

Call for Submissions: Journal of Law and Biosciences, “Law and Ethics in the Time of a Global Pandemic”

Deadline: Open until filled
Meredith Van Natta

The Journal of Law and the Biosciences (JLB) is soliciting essays, commentaries, or short articles for a special issue on “Law and Ethics in the Time of a…

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Economic vulnerability and payment for research participation

Luke Gelinas (Former Senior Researcher), Sarah White, Barbara Bierer
Journal of the Society for Clinical Trials

Abstract: There has been significant analysis of the ethical and regulatory issues involved with paying research participants, but less attention has been focused specifically on paying economically vulnerable individuals and…

PORTAL Fellowship 2020, PORTAL, a research project of Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Deadline: February 14, 2020
Ameet Sarpatwari

The Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Medicine and Harvard Medical School invites its 2020 round of applications for postdoctoral fellows in pharmaceutical…

NIH Bioethics Fellowships, National Institutes of Health

Deadline: Post-doctoral: Midnight January 1, 2020 EST | Post-baccalaureate: Midnight January 16, 2020 EST 

301-496-2429

About the fellowship: The Department of Bioethics is pleased to offer a limited number of two-year post-doctoral and post-baccalaureate fellowships. Fellows participate in the activities and the intellectual life of…

Academic Medical Centers and Teaching Hospitals Institute, Arlington, VA

Deadline: Conference: January 30-31, 2020

The annual Academic Medical Centers program, co-sponsored by the American Health Lawyers Association and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), is designed to address the legal issues unique…

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

Deadline: December 31, 2019
Donna Patterson

>Read the full call.

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…

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Challenges in Implementing Brazil’s Universal Health Care

Igor De Lazari and Sergio Dias, referencing work by Carmel Shachar (Executive Director)
The Regulatory Review

From the article: Universal health coverage is a goal of many democracies, but achieving that goal requires implementing extensive reforms to existing health systems and making significant investments in public…

Health notes: Food labels, crowdfunding, teen sleep, missing health insurance image

Health notes: Food labels, crowdfunding, teen sleep, missing health insurance

Duluth Tribune News, referencing work by Jeremy Snyder I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Duluth Tribune News

From the article: Jeremy Snyder of Simon Fraser University in British Columbia and I. Glenn Cohen of Harvard said they found more than $650 million were raised annually for medical needs…

Female researchers are less likely than men to frame their work with positive words, study finds

Elizabeth Cooney
STAT

Are men more impressed with their own scientific research than women? Or are women warned off “overstating” their work? A new analysis suggests it might be a little…

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Advance care planning in Parkinson’s disease: ethical challenges and future directions

Leonard L. Sokol, Michael J. Young (Student Fellow Alumnus), Jack Paparian, Benzi M. Kluger, Hillary D. Lum, Jessica Besbris, et al.
npj Parkinson's Disease

From the abstract: Recent discoveries support the principle that palliative care may improve the quality of life of patients with Parkinson’s disease and those who care for them.…

Medical Device Failures Brought To Light Now Bolster Lawsuits And Research

Christina Jewett
Kaiser Health News

[...] For almost 20 years, malfunctions and injuries linked to 108 medical devices, including dental implants and pacemaker leads, were funneled into an FDA database that few patients, doctors or even FDA officials…

Call for Participation: Contested Data: What Happens When the Givens Aren’t Taken, Data & Society, New York, NY

Deadline: November 25, 2019

From the call: DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: NOVEMBER 25, 2019 APPLY HERE: HTTP://DATASOCIETY.NET/CONTESTED-DATA-APPLICATION FOR QUESTIONS, EMAIL EVENTS@DATASOCIETY.NET On March 6, 2020, Data & Society will host a workshop…

Big study casts doubt on need for many heart procedures

Associated Press
STAT

PHILADELPHIA — People with severe but stable heart disease from clogged arteries may have less chest pain if they get a procedure to improve blood flow rather than just giving…

Apple’s Reach Reshapes Medical Research: The company’s tools enable researchers to track huge numbers of people. But doctors do not yet know if it will significantly improve health outcomes.

Natasha Singer
New York Times

[...] The new ingredients allowing the huge scale: Apple’s iPhones, apps and money. Harvard’s new study is just one of three new large research efforts that Apple…

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Celebrating the pursuit of scientific innovation: We should all be thankful to Vannevar Bush, one of the true titans of science in the 20th century.

Douglas Eby (Senior Fellow)
Boston Globe

From the article: Seventy-five years ago, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt penned a letter to his director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development, Dr. Vannevar Bush. Basking in the…

E.P.A. to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health Rules

Lisa Friedman
New York Times

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government can use to determine public health regulations, overriding protests from scientists and…

Call for Abstracts:  International Association of Bioethics World Congress of Bioethics, Penn Medicine

Deadline: November 04, 2019

(+1) 856-423-7222 ext. 430

From the Abstract Submission Guidelines: The Program Planning Committee of the 15th World Congress of Bioethics is seeking proposals for individual paper, poster, symposium, and workshop presentations to be organised…

Lemelson Center Travel to Collections Award Program, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation

Deadline: November 01, 2019
Alison Oswald

>Read the full call.

From the call: The Lemelson Center Travel to Collections Award Program annually awards 3 to 4 short-term travel grants to encourage the use of its invention-related collections. Awards…

Lemelson Center Fellowship Program, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation

Deadline: November 01, 2019
Eric S. Hintz

>Read the full call.

From the call: The Lemelson Center Fellowship Program annually awards 2 to 3 fellowships to pre-doctoral graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and other professionals who have completed advanced…

Arthur Molella Distinguished Fellowship, Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation

Deadline: November 01, 2019
Eric S. Hintz

>Read the full call.

From the call: The Arthur Molella Distinguished Fellowship supports the work of an experienced author or senior scholar (associate/full/emeritus professor level or equivalent) from the history of…

Public sector financial support for late stage discovery of new drugs in the United States: cohort study image

Public sector financial support for late stage discovery of new drugs in the United States: cohort study

Rahul Nayak (Student Fellow Alumnus), Jerry Avorn, Aaron S. Kesselheim
BMJ

From the abstract: Objective To determine the extent to which late stage development of new drugs relies on support from public funding. Design Cohort study. Setting All new drugs containing…

CALL FOR PAPERS: 2020 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference, Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA

Deadline: October 14, 2019
Crissy Hutchison-Jones

From the call: We seek papers that offer innovative conceptualizations and advance inventive approaches. Abstracts should focus on the fresh contributions the presentation will make, including sketches of the supporting…

Postdoctoral position focused on bioethics and health policy, Yale School of Medicine

Deadline: Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
Jennifer E. Miller

Joseph Ross

Postdoctoral position focused on bioethics and health policy, in Yale School of Medicine Posting Date: October 2019 Postdoctoral Position in Yale School of Medicine, General Internal Medicine Section Job Description: Yale…

Undergraduate Fellowships in Ethics: Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University

Deadline: November 01, 2019
Emily Bromley

>Learn more about the fellows program.

From the posting: Undergraduate Fellowships in Ethics (for Harvard-enrolled students) Application deadline: November 1, 2019 The Edmond J. Safra Undergraduate Fellowship Program welcomes applications from Harvard College sophomores and juniors from…

Graduate Fellowships in Ethics: Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University

Deadline: November 01, 2019
Emily Bromley

>Learn more about the fellows program.

From the posting: Graduate Fellowships in Ethics  (for Harvard-enrolled students) Application deadline: November 1, 2019 The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics Graduate Fellowship Program invites applications from graduate students…

Fellows-in-Residence: Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University

Deadline: November 15, 2019
Emily Bromley

>Learn more about the fellows program.

The 2019 call for applications is now closed. From the posting: Application deadline: November 15, 2019 The Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University invites applications from a broad range…

Health Law Workshop: Holly Fernandez Lynch: Thinking about Bystanders to Research

September 16, 2019

Presentation Topic: "Thinking about Bystanders to Research" This paper is not available for download. About the Presenter Holly Fernandez Lynch is John Russell Dickson, MD Presidential Assistant Professor of Medical…

Book Launch: Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States

September 16, 2019
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Description In June 2019, Cambridge University Press published Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States. This volume, edited by Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar, and…

Call for Papers: Seton Hall Law School Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy, Seton Hall University, Newark, NJ

Deadline: November 22, 2019
Catherine Finizio

The call in its entirety: Seton Hall Law School Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy Fourth Annual Regional Health Law Works-in-Progress Retreat Call for Papers   I am…

Harvard GSAS Biotech Incubator, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Deadline: Not stated.
General inquiries

>Learn more.

From the website: There is a need to more broadly prepare students and postdocs for success in non-academic careers.  The Incubator focuses on developing and applying marketable skills and…

Research Assistant for the Center for Law, Brain and Behavior, Massachusetts General Hospital

Deadline: Open until filled.

>Read the Full Call and Apply

General Summary Under the direction of Dr. Francis Shen, JD, PhD, the Executive Director of the MGH Center for Law, Brain, and Behavior (CLBB), the research assistant will conduct…

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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…

Workshop: How to Bring Your Manuscript to Press, Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School

Deadline: August 21, 2019
Brittany Taylor

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From the call: Join Chancellor's Professor Michele Goodwin, the Senior and Founding Editor of Sex, Society, & The Law In The 21st Century (University of California Press) as she…

Call for Papers: Disability and Ethics, Bioethica Forum

Deadline: October 01, 2019
Angela Martin

Minerva Rivas

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From the call: The widely ratified United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities lists the rights of disabled individuals and prohibits any discrimination on the basis of…

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…

Request for Proposals: Special Volume to Honor Professor Eleanor Kinney, Indiana Health Law Review

Deadline: August 15, 2019
Nicolas Terry

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From the description:  Our celebrated and generous colleague Eleanor Kinney passed away late last year. To honor her and her legacy, the Indiana Health Law Review is soliciting papers…

Call for Papers: AALS Biolaw and Law, Medicine, & Health Care Sponsored Session, AALS 2020 Annual Meeting

Deadline: August 12, 2019
Prof. Jordan Paradise

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From the call: The Biolaw section and the Law, Medicine & Health Care section are pleased to announce a Call for Papers from which three (3) presenters will be selected for…

Genetic testing, insurance discrimination and medical research: what the United States can learn from peer countries

Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon (Visiting Researcher), Effy Vayena, Robert C. Green, and I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Nature Medicine

From the abstract: While genetic testing may be the gateway to the future of medicine, it also poses challenges for individuals, especially in terms of differentiated treatments on the basis…

Amid rising concern, pay-to-play clinical trials are drawing federal scrutiny

By Rebecca Robbins, quoting Holly Fernandez Lynch (Former Executive Director)
STAT

From the article: “The examples that we have, that get this kind of media attention, it’s obvious that people shouldn’t be asked to pay to…

Call for Applications: Disability History Association Mentorship Program

Deadline: August 19, 2019
Jaipreet Virdi

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From the description: The DHA Mentorship Program aims to match volunteer mentors with students who are either pursuing a graduate degree in the same subfield of history or who have…

Organ donor intervention trials and risk to bystanders: An ethical analysis

I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Clinical Trials

From the abstract: There are two distinct problems about bystander effects raised by organ donor intervention research. The first is the problem of “bystander organs”—sometimes called …

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…

Call for Papers: The Politics of Health 2020: International Health Humanities Consortium Conference, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Deadline: September 27, 2019
Center for Medicine, Health, and Society

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From the description: The sixth annual Health Humanities Consortium (HHC) conference will explore the politics of health and healthcare in the context of world events and a vital 2020…

Fulbright Visiting Research Chair in Health Law, Policy and Ethics, University of Ottawa, Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics

Deadline: September 16, 2019
Brad Hector

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From the description: Hosted at the Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics, the Chairholder will join a vibrant and growing community of scholars who are working on cutting-edge issues…

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…

Relocation of study participants for rare and ultra-rare disease trials: Ethics and operations

Luke Gelinas (Former Senior Researcher), Brian Crawford, Ariella Kelman, Barbara E. Bierer
Contemporary Clinical Trials

From the abstract: Clinical trials for investigational new products to treat rare and ultra-rare diseases typically involve a limited number of research sites recruiting from a small pool of patients…

You No Longer Own Your Face

by Sidney Fussell, quoting Michelle Meyer (Academic Fellow Alumna)
The Atlantic

From the article: “It’s just not what [the IRB] was designed to do,” says Michelle Meyer, a bioethicist who chairs the IRB Leadership Committee at Geisinger,…