Dana Foundation Neurotech Justice Fellow Javier R. Mesa is the Dana Foundation Neurotech Justice Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. He is also a Research Fellow at the Neurotech Justice Accelerator at Mass General Brigham. Javier is interested in several aspects of neurolaw (the intersections…
Post-Doctoral Fellow in Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law Sofia Palmieri is the Post-Doctoral Fellow in Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. She holds a PhD in Health Law from the University of Ghent and graduated with honors in Law from…
Student Fellow2025-2026 Evelyn Shiang (JD, MPH 2027) is a second-year dual-degree student in law and public health whose research interests include health care access and antitrust law. Prior to law school, she conducted research focused on consumer product safety and mental health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her publications have appeared…
Student Fellow2025-2026 Quincy Martin (JD 2027) is a 2L at Harvard Law School with an interest in healthcare innovation and alternative payment reform. He previously worked in healthcare consulting, advising clients on value-based care and interoperability challenges. Drawing on his background in high-cost CRISPR-based therapeutics and community health, Martin now focuses his research on emerging…
Student Fellow2025-2026 Julia Etkin (MSc in Bioethics 2026) is a Dean’s Scholar at Harvard Medical School, pursuing a Master of Science in the Center for Bioethics. Her research interests include biopsychosocial pharmacovigilance, health policy of novel psychoactive substances (NPS), trauma studies, and FDA regulation. She has published on topics at the intersection of ethics and equity,…
Student Fellow2025-2026 Tai Dinger (JD/PhD 2028) is a law student and a PhD candidate in Health Policy. Before Harvard, he was an engineer at Epic Systems where he focused on leveraging insurance claims data to track population health. At Harvard, Tai explores the intersections of law, economics, and decision sciences, the study of how we [should]…
Student Fellow2025-2026 Jared Vornhagen (JD 2027) is a second-year law student from Cincinnati, Ohio and is interested in studying the intersection of law, science, and criminal justice. His recent research includes a series of experiments that examined several factors contributing to false confessions, such as suspect age and the presence of confession contamination. He has also…
Student Fellow2025-2026 Aarushi Solanki (JD 2027) graduated with a B.S. in Psychobiology from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she conducted molecular psychiatry research, and later worked as a paralegal in a medical-legal partnership and as an EMT. She is interested in legal and financial frameworks shaping access to behavioral health care, the role of…
Student Fellow2025-2026 Danny Finley (JD 2026) worked in the patient advocacy movement prior to law school in pursuit of policy solutions to the prescription drug affordability crisis in the United States, primarily focusing on the passage of Medicare negotiation of drug prices in 2022. This movement work motivated him to attend Havard Law School where his…
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Health Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School Former Executive Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School2017-2023 Carmel Shachar, JD, MPH, is Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Health Law and Policy Clinic at…
