By Michelle Meyer The op-ed, which will appear in tomorrow’s print edition, is online here. It’s co-authored with Christopher Chabris (who happens to be my husband). Here—where I’m writing only for myself—I thought I’d say a bit about what motivated us and elaborate on a few points whose force may have been blunted by the…
In case you missed it live on Monday evening, video from the Petrie-Flom Center’s event “Gene Patenting, the Supreme Court’s Myriad Decision, and the Future of Biotechnology” (co-sponsored by the Broad Institute) is now available here. 09/27/13 UPDATE: Our intern Fatima Mirza also wrote up this summary: At this event, a distinguished panel of law and…
By Holly Fernandez Lynch This afternoon the Petrie-Flom Center co-hosted a panel discussion (with the HLS Library and the Harvard Global Health Institute) of Glenn Cohen‘s new edited volume out from Oxford University Press, The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues. Panelists were Professor Cohen, Sue Goldie, and Neel Shah; Einer Elhauge served as…
By Nathaniel Counts Professor M. G. Marmot et al. conducted two studies, Whitehall I and Whitehall II, in which they studied morbidity and mortality in the British civil service sector in the 1960s and the 1980s. British civil servants are under the same plan with the National Health Service, so the studies controlled for access…
By Scott Burris Last week, the American Journal of Public Health published a PHLR paper by Michelle Mello and colleagues calling for our field to identfy “critical opportunities” for public health law. Critical Opportunities are legal interventions that target important public health problems. They may have a strong evidence base but be underutilized (like alcohol…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a short new article out expanding on the idea he launched here at Bill of Health that non-vaccinators should be held liable for the harms they can cause. Take a look.
By Ching-Fu Lin In a congressional letter last month, 76 House Members urged United States (US) Trade Representative Michael Froman to push for strong and enforceable sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures in the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP). SPS measures – which have been viewed as an area with very little room for…
By Arthur Caplan Art Caplan has a new opinion piece up at nbcnews.com on a recent outbreak of measles centered around a church in Newark, Texas. From the piece: The congregation of Eagle Mountain International Church in Newark, Texas, recently discovered that prayer is no substitute for vaccination. After visiting Indonesia, an unidentified visitor to the megachurch 50…
By The Petrie-Flom Center Applications are invited for 10 faculty fellowships in public health law education. DESCRIPTION Georgia State University College of Law and its Center for Law, Health & Society are leading an initiative funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for a faculty fellowship program to promote public health law education. Ten faculty…
By Scott Burris In documenting how often public health law research does influence legislation, I’ve used syringe exchange programs as an example of evidence NOT guiding policy. Despite the consensus in health research that increasing access to sterile syringes has helped reduce HIV, state drug paraphernalia laws, and pharmacy regulations remain a barrier, as does…
