By Michele Goodwin For centuries, researchers have studied multiple aspects of women’s reproduction. Research tells us when women are more likely to become pregnant, when infertility kicks in, and even offers significant insights into the psychological dimensions of pregnancy and mothering from the dopamine release associated with breastfeeding to the potential for postnatal depression to…
Book Launch: “Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future” Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Harvard Law School Library, Langdell Hall 4th Floor, Caspersen Room, 1557 Massachusetts Ave. This event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be served. For a list of our panelists, please visit our website. MIT Press recently…
Book Launch: “Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future” Wednesday, October 22, 2014 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall 4th Floor, Caspersen Room, 1557 Massachusetts Ave. This event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be served. For a list of our panelists, please visit our website. MIT Press recently…
By Michelle Meyer A WSJ reporter just tipped me off to this news release by Facebook regarding the changes it has made in its research practices in response to public outrage about its emotional contagion experiment, published in PNAS. I had a brief window of time in which to respond with my comments, so these…
By Michelle N. Meyer Another stop on my fall Facebook/OKCupid tour: on October 10, I’ll be participating on a panel (previewed in the NYT here) on “Experimentation and Ethical Practice,” along with Harvard Law’s Jonathan Zittrain, Google chief economist Hal Varian, my fellow PersonalGenomes.org board member and start-up investor Ester Dyson, and my friend and…
A Conversation with the HHS Office of the Inspector General Tuesday, September 30, 2014 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Room 3018, Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave. Please join the Petrie-Flom Center for a conversation with the Boston office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Office…
The research assistant will work with the principal investigator Nir Eyal and collaborators from the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Duke University, Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Brigham and Women’s Hospital as well as the ACTG HIV trial site network. The multidisciplinary team uses methods of clinical epidemiology, economics, simulation modeling, and normative theory…
By Rachel Sachs Panel Discussion: Christine Grady, Mitchell Warren, Richard Saver, Luann van Campen; Moderator: Mark Barnes
By Robin Pierce Session 3 of the Post Trial Responsibilities Conference, Lessons Learned, featured four speakers who have been involved in the conduct of trials for which post trial access was an issue. Moderated by Petrie-Flom Executive Director, Holly Fernandez Lynch, the session aimed to better understand real world experiences implementing post-trial responsibilities, including both successes…
By Zachary Shapiro Hello from the Post-Trial Responsibilities conference! I will be live blogging session 2: where speakers will be providing important perspectives on PTA. Barbra Bierer is monitoring the discussion. We started with Richard Klein calling in from FDA: Richard is talking about post-trial responsibilities. He points out that there is a justice issue…
