Governance by Consent in Health Policy?
Health lawyers are accustomed to thinking about statutes, regulations, and agency action.
Health Law Policy
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Read more: What is Health Law? What is Health Law?
Join us for the Petrie-Flom Center’s lunchtime open house. Harvard Law School faculty and alumni from the private and public sectors will discuss their own career paths and describe the key interdisciplinary questions that define the practice of health law today and in the future. Expect an insider’s view of legal practice at the intersection…
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Read more: Poisoned Wells: Iowa’s Fertilizer Crisis Poisoned Wells: Iowa’s Fertilizer Crisis
Iowa is the only state bounded on either side by major rivers, fitting borders for a state whose prosperity is defined by water. The state has long been one of the nation’s most agriculturally productive.
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Read more: ICE in Hospitals: How Medical Legal Partnerships Could Help ICE in Hospitals: How Medical Legal Partnerships Could Help
Across the United States, immigrant patients and their families are increasingly facing a harsh reality: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are appearing near or even inside hospitals. Published Author Share Across the United States, immigrant patients and their families are increasingly facing a harsh reality: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are appearing near or even…
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Read more: Watch Out! Funding Cuts, Food Safety Surveillance, and Federalism Watch Out! Funding Cuts, Food Safety Surveillance, and Federalism
On July 1, the federal government quietly scaled back its only active surveillance system for foodborne illnesses.
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Read more: Pandemic Laws Still Leave Antimicrobial Resistance in the Cold 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 in 2025, alongside billions in new preparedness funding.
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Read more: Massachusetts Lags Behind on CPR Education — It’s Time to Catch Up Massachusetts Lags Behind on CPR Education — It’s Time to Catch Up
Every year, more than 350,000 Americans experience cardiac arrest in non-hospital settings. But only about 1 in 10 survive. The single most important factor in whether someone lives? Whether a bystander provides cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
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Read more: Book Talk: Health Law as Private Law Book Talk: Health Law as Private Law
Please join us to celebrate the launch of Health Law as Private Law: Pathology or Pathway, published by Cambridge University Press. Might private law be as powerful a tool as government regulation in solving problems in health care and public health? This new edited volume, which grew from a 2023 conference at the Petrie-Flom Center for…
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Read more: Bill of Health 2024 Year-In-Review Bill of Health 2024 Year-In-Review
As we near the end of 2024, here are some of our most widely viewed articles on the Bill of Health blog. Reproductive health, aging/longevity, and psychedelics were among readers’ favorite topics this year. Popular articles touched on insurance coverage for psychedelic therapy, polygenic embryo screening, AI in drug development, and medical assistance in dying. The single most-read article this year…
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Read more: Canaries in the Coal Mine: HUD’s Failure to End Childhood Lead Exposure in Federally Assisted Housing Canaries in the Coal Mine: HUD’s Failure to End Childhood Lead Exposure in Federally Assisted Housing
By Anna Aguilar and Sidney Lee In 1971, Congress tasked the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) with establishing procedures to “eliminate as far as practicable” the dangers of lead poisoning. Yet, HUD has repeatedly fallen short of accomplishing this. More than 50 years later, for children in federally assisted housing in the…
