Should Vaccinating Children Off-Label Against COVID-19 Be Universally Prohibited?
We think that off-label pediatric administration of approved COVID-19 vaccines should be left to individual risk-benefit judgments.
Holly Fernandez Lynch
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Read more: What Should Academics Know About Lobbying Law? What Should Academics Know About Lobbying Law?
This post was originally published on AM Rounds on January 14, 2020. By Holly Fernandez Lynch, Alison Bateman-House, and Suzanne M. Rivera Academics sometimes get a bad rap for being stuck in their ivory towers. But many academics realize that their expertise can be useful to policymakers and aim to make it widely available through…
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Read more: Payment, Lying, and Research Eligibility Payment, Lying, and Research Eligibility
Does payment in exchange for research participation encourage deception?
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Read more: New Article Examines the Possibility of Applying Workplace Safety Rules to the NFL New Article Examines the Possibility of Applying Workplace Safety Rules to the NFL
Part of the Law and Ethics Initiative of the Football Players Health Study at Harvard University: Article authored by Adam M. Finkel, Chris Deubert, Orly Lobel, I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director), and Holly Fernandez Lynch (Former Executive Director Could occupational health and safety laws be applied to better protect NFL players? A new analysis, published on April…
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Read more: TOMORROW, 11/9! Book Launch: Specimen Science – Ethics and Policy Implications TOMORROW, 11/9! Book Launch: Specimen Science – Ethics and Policy Implications
Book Launch: Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications November 9, 2017 12:00 PM Countway Library, Lahey Room Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA In September 2017, MIT Press will publish Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications, co-edited by Holly Fernandez Lynch (outgoing Petrie-Flom Executive Director), Barbara Bierer, I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director), and Suzanne M. Rivera. This edited volume stems from a conference in 2015 that brought…
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Read more: Book Launch: Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications Book Launch: Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications
Book Launch: Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications November 9, 2017 12:00 PM Countway Library, Lahey Room Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA In September 2017, MIT Press will publish Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications, co-edited by Holly Fernandez Lynch (outgoing Petrie-Flom Executive Director), Barbara Bierer, I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director), and Suzanne M. Rivera. This edited volume stems from a conference in 2015 that brought…
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Read more: Thank You for Five Great Years! Thank You for Five Great Years!
Five years ago today, the first post went up on Bill of Health. Since then, the blog has received over 980,000 unique page views from 220 countries, helping to further the discussion of issues in health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics and to publicize opportunities in the field. Over 3,100 posts have covered everything from ethical issues with…
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Read more: Final Common Rule Revisions Just Published Final Common Rule Revisions Just Published
By Holly Fernandez Lynch This morning, the Federal Register posted for public inspection the final rule revising the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects (AKA “The Common Rule”). This has been a long, long road, beginning with an ANPRM in 2011 and a massive NPRM in 2015. The agencies clearly wanted to slide this…
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Read more: NEW REPORT: Protecting and Promoting the Health of NFL Players – Legal and Ethical Analysis and Recommendations NEW REPORT: Protecting and Promoting the Health of NFL Players – Legal and Ethical Analysis and Recommendations
The Football Players Health Study at Harvard University today released a set of legal and ethical recommendations to address a series of structural factors that affect NFL player health. The Football Players Health Study is a research initiative composed of several ongoing studies examining the health and wellbeing of NFL players. The newly released report,…
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Read more: NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER! Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER! Nudging Health: Health Law and Behavioral Economics
This volume, edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Holly Fernandez Lynch, and Christopher T. Robertson, stems from the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2014 Annual Conference “Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy.” Pre-order your copy today! Behavioral nudges are everywhere: calorie counts on menus, automated text reminders to encourage medication adherence, a reminder bell when a driver’s seatbelt isn’t fastened. Designed to help…