By John Tingle Matt Hancock, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on February 6 gave a wide-ranging speech on the future direction of patient safety in the NHS. The speech is important as it gives key insights into government priorities for patient safety policy development in the NHS.He stated that we all…
A global set of authors make the case that military and police forces should be recognized as key players, rather than intruders, in public health.
The Petrie-Flom Center is thrilled to announce the launch of the Global Health and Rights Project, which will investigate using a human rights framework to advance global health justice.
Talking of healthcare as a right in the context of U.S. policymaking, though laudable, is misplaced. Healthcare is only one thread in the intricate tapestry that is population health.
By Alicia Ely Yamin As Susan Sontag eloquently noted decades ago, illness conjures metaphors that reveal a great deal about how we think about, and, in turn, address them. None more so than the lethal Ebola, which monstrously disfigures bodies before killing the infected person and spreading rapidly through the routines of everyday life. In…
By Mark Satta African governments spend millions of dollars every year training physicians who will leave their home countries to live and work in wealthier nations. The result is that for countries like Ethiopia, Kenya, and Sierra Leone, more of their native physicians are now in the United States and Europe than at home. This…
The Conduct of Clinical Trials of Treatments during Public Health Emergencies: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium February 9, 2018, 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Room 1010 Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA In the past several years, the United States has struggled to respond to viral outbreaks, such as Ebola and Zika. There…
The Conduct of Clinical Trials of Treatments during Public Health Emergencies: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium February 9, 2018, 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Room 1010 Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA In the past several years, the United States has struggled to respond to viral outbreaks, such as Ebola and Zika. There…
By Clíodhna Ní Chéileachair In November Serena Williams, indisputably one of the greatest – if not the greatest – tennis player in history gave birth to her daughter by emergency Caesarean section. After the surgery, Williams reported to an attending nurse that she was experiencing shortness of breath and immediately assumed she was experiencing pulmonary embolism….
By Clíodhna Ní Chéileachair The ‘Mexico City Rule’ is a Reagan-era regulation which bars US funding to worldwide NGOs which provide counselling relating to abortion, or referrals for abortion services, or which advocate for the expansion of abortion access. The regulation is a sticking point for the two-party reality of US politics, and has been…
