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Older Persons’ Human Rights
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18
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From The Harvard Gazette: Time for mandatory retirement ages for lawmakers, judges, presidents?
Americans seem to mostly say yes; legal, medical scholars point to complexities of setting limits at the Petrie-Flom lunchtime event, How Old is Too Old to Govern?
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Predictive Persons: Privacy Law and Digital Twins
Imagine a clinical trial where the control group never sets foot in a clinic – because they don’t need to, and they don’t have feet. These “participants” are digital twins: computational models of real patients, built from health data to forecast disease trajectories and treatment response.
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Woke Medicine: Meeting Health-Related Social Needs During Anti-DEI Discourse
The Trump administration has set its sights on what it terms “wokeness” in health care. Health promoting interventions that address socioeconomically disadvantaged patients’ unmet social needs appear to be in the crosshairs.
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Civil Commitment and the Criminalization of Homelessness
In July, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” (the Order) to address homelessness — or what his administration called “endemic vagrancy,” disorderly behavior, and violent attacks.
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NIH’s Access Planning Policy for Patent Licenses: Part 2
Beginning Oct. 1, 2025, all applicants for commercial licenses of patents owned by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) are required to submit an Access Plan outlining how they will promote patient access to the resulting products.
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NIH’s Access Planning Policy for Patent Licenses: Part 1
Beginning Oct. 1, 2025, all applicants for commercial licenses of patents owned by the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) are required to submit an Access Plan outlining how they will promote patient access to the resulting products.
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Fireside Chat: I. Glenn Cohen and Rochelle Walensky
Professor Glenn Cohen, Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School interviews Dr. Rochelle Walensky, 19th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Senior Academic Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center. They discuss Dr. Walensky’s career as an infectious disease clinician focused on HIV/AIDS, her experience leading the CDC during COVID-19, and her reflections on public health infrastructure in the United States and internationally.
