By Dan Traficonte In this third blog post covering my visit to the Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference, I highlight some research from the conference focused on the importance of considering local social practices and belief systems into health policies and interventions. Faduma Gure, a Master’s student in Interdisciplinary Health Sciences at the…
By Dan Traficonte In this second blog post covering my visit to the Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference, I highlight some fascinating new research on the relationship between global poverty and population health. Dr. Joseph Dieleman from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington presented his research on…
By Dan Traficonte Recently, the Petrie-Flom Center sent me to the 6th Annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference in downtown Boston, where students, researchers and health professionals from around the world gathered to network and share ideas. The conference’s focus covered a broad range of pressing global health issues, including the Ebola crisis…
ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS AND REGISTRATION OPEN! In 2015 it will be 10 years since the adoption of the revised International Health Regulations (IHR). To mark this important anniversary, QUT’s Australian Centre for Health Law Research is pleased to invite you to Biosecurity in a Globalised World: The Adoption of the Revised International Health Regulations – 10…
Book Launch: Identified versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Approach March 11, 2015 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Room 2012 Harvard Law School, 1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA Identified versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Approach is an edited volume that grew out of the 2012 conference “Identified versus Statistical Lives: Ethics and Public Policy,” cosponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center, Edmond…
By Allison M. Whelan, J.D.Senior Fellow, Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy, University of California, Irvine School of LawGuest Blogger In a previous post, I discussed three possible methods of increasing vaccination and decreasing vaccine refusals in the United States. One of these options was using tort law and allowing lawsuits against parents for…
By Allison M. Whelan, J.D.Senior Fellow, Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy, University of California, Irvine School of LawGuest Blogger Thailand’s interim parliament recently passed a law prohibiting foreigners from seeking Thai surrogates. The law was proposed and passed in response to several recent scandals and the growing surrogacy industry that has made Thailand…
This new post by George Annas appears on the Health Affairs Blog, as part of part of a series stemming from the Third Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event held at Harvard Law School on Friday, January 30, 2015. 2014 saw an epidemic of Ebola in Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia, and an epidemic of fear in the US. Neither epidemic…
By Kevin Outterson Or so we claim in this month’s WHO Bulletin. Resistance is a global common pool problem requiring simultaneous action on three fronts: access to effective antibiotics (many more deaths from susceptible bacterial infections currently); conservation (protect and extend the most effective drug class in history through rational use and infection prevention); and innovation (new…
A Right to Health? A lecture by John Tasioulas Thursday, February 5, 2015 12:00 PM Wasserstein Hall, Room 3019 Harvard Law School 1589 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA There have been recent calls to establish a framework convention on health grounded in the human right to health. But is there really a human right…
