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  • Petrie-Flom Center

    Introducing Petrie-Flom’s 2025-2026 Student Fellows

    The Petrie-Flom Center Student Fellowship is a competitive one-year program designed to support Harvard graduate students interested in pursuing independent scholarly projects related to health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics. 

    Introducing Petrie-Flom’s 2025-2026 Student Fellows

  • Health Information Technology

    Quantum Computing Export Controls: Implications for the Health Care Sector

    Quantum computers promise to create a new wave of global innovation comparable to the advent of classic computers, the internet, and artificial intelligence. Unlike classical machines, quantum computers harness the principles of quantum mechanics to…

    Quantum Computing Export Controls: Implications for the Health Care Sector

  • Pandemic

    Pandemic Laws Still Leave Antimicrobial  Resistance in the Cold

    Over the past five years, governments have rewritten global health law at a rapid pace. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, states revised the International Health Regulations (IHR) in 2024 and signed a pandemic treaty…

    Pandemic Laws Still Leave Antimicrobial  Resistance in the Cold

  • Public Health

    Shaping Neglect: New Challenges for Chagas Disease

    The “One Big Beautiful Bill” is now law. This legislation, considered to be the cornerstone of the second Trump administration’s policy goals, has widely been criticized for its projected impacts on public health and reduction…

    Shaping Neglect: New Challenges for Chagas Disease

  • Gender-Affirming Care

    Skrmetti: Treating a Disease Label, Not a Child

    In the highly polarized case of United States v. Skrmetti, the Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s legislative denial of two types of medical care for gender dysphoria in young people. In so doing the decision conscripted…

    Skrmetti: Treating a Disease Label, Not a Child

  • Disability

    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.

    A Clarion Call for Public Health: Sustain Non-Partisan Federal Service