Reflections on the Petrie-Flom Center’s 20th: Martha Minow

To mark our 20th anniversary, the Petrie-Flom Center reached out to some of our esteemed colleagues for their reflections. Please enjoy this installment from Martha Minow.

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How has the Petrie-Flom Center made an impact?

I admire the pioneering work on privacy and data, artificial intelligence and health, quantum technology governance, neurobiology, and advanced care practices — and much more.  

Students find their home and their callings through work with Petrie-Flom; people from different disciplines and walks of life find conversations, podcasts, newsletters, and insights that matter. 

Tell us about your history of working with the Petrie-Flom Center and Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen.

Elena Kagan drew me into the planning process about what became the Petrie-Flom Center, and it has been a joy and a pleasure to watch it grow into its role as a true center of research and education about cutting edge issues in health, biotechnology, and bio-ethics  for scholars, practitioners, and students.  

All of this is synonymous with Glenn Cohen and his truly unique ability to name and investigate emerging issues, convene, research, collaborate, propel new understandings, and do so much that is worthwhile all at the same time!