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2025 Annual Conference: Law, Health Care, and the Aging Brain and Body
Our 2025 annual conference called on participants to imagine how law, public policy, and health care entities can create systems that promote the well-being of older adults and their families in a world of enhanced longevity, and to suggest what lessons can be drawn from emerging scientific understandings of the aging brain and body.
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A Clarion Call for Public Health: Sustain Non-Partisan Federal Service
My fourth guide dog, Izzie, was the final dog partner in my particular federal agency’s building when I recently retired from service as a health care lawyer with expertise in public health.
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Massachusetts Lags Behind on CPR Education — It’s Time to Catch Up
Every year, more than 350,000 Americans experience cardiac arrest in non-hospital settings. But only about 1 in 10 survive. The single most important factor in whether someone lives? Whether a bystander provides cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
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From Words to Action: Making the Pandemic Agreement Work
The recent adoption of a Pandemic Agreement by the World Health Organization (WHO) member states has been widely hailed as a historic achievement for global health governance and security.
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Medicaid Cuts Will Endanger a Lifeline for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities’ Community Integration, Empowerment, and More
In the United States, more persons with intellectual disabilities are living in the community than ever before. This was not always the case.
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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.
