By Michelle Meyer Updated below Like most parents, after learning about the latest mass school shooting this morning, my thoughts immediately went to my own kindergartener. And of course, like most reading this blog, I thought about how poorly we handle guns and mental illness. Before too long, though, I couldn’t help but make a…
The Petrie-Flom Center recently co-hosted a conference with the Safra Center on Institutional Financial Conflicts of Interest in Research Universities (fCOI), exploring situations where universities get cozy with industry. My friend, Jonathan Marks, is doing some really interesting work (see e.g., this) on conflicts of interest in the field of food-health research in particular. And, Michael Sandel also has…
By Christopher Robertson The Washington Post has an extensive story about the drug and device industry’s influence on the outcomes of clinical trials, which are published in leading medical journals and which then shape the prescribing decisions of physicians everywhere. Below the fold, I share some of my own thinking on this issue, and link…
By Adriana Benedict As of 2008, the NIH Public Access Policy requires “that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months…
By I. Glenn Cohen I am writing this from Malaysia where I am touring hospitals as part of my book in progress on medical tourism. I may try to blog on the trip a bit next week, but for now I want to continue my thoughts from my last blog post prompted by our conference…
By Suzanne M. Rivera, Ph.D. I was giving a workshop presentation at the annual meeting of the National Council of University Research Administrators and my co-presenter raised an interesting idea. Tommy Coggins of the University of South Carolina was talking about the importance of integrity for preserving the public’s trust in the research enterprise, and…
By I. Glenn Cohen I am writing this post from a terrific conference on Institutional Financial Conflicts of Interest In Research Universities, hosted at Harvard Law by the Petrie-Flom Center and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics. One set of fascinating questions that has been raised is when the university should reign in the ability of…
Friday, November 2, 2012 8:30am – 6:30pm (reception to follow) Milstein Conference Rooms, 2nd Floor Wasserstein Hall 1585 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA The Petrie-Flom Center and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics will be co-sponsoring a day-long symposium organized by Dr. David Korn on institutional financial conflicts of interest in research universities. The speaker line-up is incredible, including Derek Bok and Zeke…
By Suzanne M. Rivera, Ph.D. In August of 2011, the Public Health Service updated its rules to address the kind of financial conflicts of interests that can undermine (or appear to undermine) integrity in research. The new rules, issued under the ungainly title, “Responsibility of Applicants for Promoting Objectivity in Research for which Public Health…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Friday, November 2, 20128:30am – 6:30pm (reception to follow)Milstein Conference Rooms, 2nd FloorWasserstein Hall1585 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA Just a reminder that next week the Petrie-Flom Center and the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics will be co-sponsoring a day-long symposium organized by Dr. David Korn on institutional financial conflicts of interest in research universities. The speaker…
