Past Events

  • Read more: Private Funding of Drug Discovery: Ethical Issues, Practical Alternatives: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
    Mar 13 2020
    Health Care Finance

    Private Funding of Drug Discovery: Ethical Issues, Practical Alternatives: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium

    Description The traditional model for drug development begins with publicly-funded science based in academic or government laboratories before private investors and for-profit pharmaceutical manufacturers become involved with their substantial expertise and resources. This for-profit drug development model has been criticized for leaving certain public health issues unaddressed, particularly diseases prevalent in low-resource settings. What is…

  • Read more: The Evolution of Hope in Advanced Illness: A Key to Health System Transformation
    Mar 4 2020
    Advanced Care & Aging

    The Evolution of Hope in Advanced Illness: A Key to Health System Transformation

    Recording

    Description Despite most patients’ preferences to die at home among their loved ones, many with end-stage cancer, heart failure, and other advanced illnesses spend their last days in the hospital. Many clinicians resist telling patients that treatments are not working or that their prognosis is poor, fearful of destroying their hopes for cure. Difficult but…

  • Read more: The Next Frontier of Neuroscience and Juvenile Justice
    Feb 26 2020
    Law & Neuroscience

    The Next Frontier of Neuroscience and Juvenile Justice

    Recording

    Event Description In the fifteen years since the United States Supreme Court referred to developmental science in ruling the death penalty unconstitutional for juveniles in Roper v. Simmons, state and federal courts have seen a wave of neuroscience-informed juvenile justice litigation. Advocates have come to see neuroscience as a powerful tool, and the Supreme Court…

  • Read more: Lessons from Germany on Controlling Prescription Costs
    Feb 25 2020
    Health Care Finance

    Lessons from Germany on Controlling Prescription Costs

    Recording

    Description To control the costs of prescription drugs, Germany combines immediate access to innovative drugs with price controls. The system assesses scientific evidence on the value of new drugs to determine adequate price ranges. While price controls are supervised by the government, the system is administered by public sickness funds, an independent scientific institute, and…

  • Read more: The ‘Nudgability’ Model for More Ethical Clinical Research
    Feb 19 2020
    Behavioral Economics

    The ‘Nudgability’ Model for More Ethical Clinical Research

    The concept of “nudging,” has been thoroughly discussed and debated in the context of health care, and particularly in the public health domain. The use of nudging in the context of health care is aimed at influencing people to make healthier choices, while supposedly leaving the actual choice for them. The use of nudging has…

  • Read more: Soda Taxes and Other Policy Responses to the American Obesity Epidemic: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
    Feb 14 2020
    Health Law Policy

    Soda Taxes and Other Policy Responses to the American Obesity Epidemic: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium

    Recording

    Description In recent years, some cities have tried to impose soda taxes and other new policies to reduce the obesity epidemic in the US—particularly among children—and its critical impact on society and the health care system. How effective are these policies? What is blocking their uptake? What alternatives should we consider? This event was free…

  • Read more: Book Talk: When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality
    Feb 7 2020
    Global Health & Human Rights

    Book Talk: When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality

    Recording

    Description When Misfortune Becomes Injustice (Stanford University Press, February 2020) surveys the progress and challenges faced in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over the last thirty years, with a particular focus on women’s health and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Author and Petrie-Flom Center Senior Fellow Alicia Ely Yamin weaves…

  • Read more: Gun Violence: The Health Care System’s Role in a Public Health Epidemic: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
    Dec 13 2019

    Gun Violence: The Health Care System’s Role in a Public Health Epidemic: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium

    There is an epidemic of gun violence in the United States. Physicians are often on the frontline, but what can the health care system do to stem the epidemic? What evidence do we have about various legal options? How should change be implemented? This event was free and open to the public. Panelists The Health…

  • Read more: Eighth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review
    Dec 6 2019

    Eighth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review

    Recording

    At the Petrie-Flom Center’s eighth annual Health Law Year in P/Review, leading experts discussed major developments in health law and policy during 2019 and what to watch out for in 2020. Speakers covered hot topics including immigration and health concerns, gene editing in international contexts, coming developments in health IT, health and life sciences IP,…

  • Read more: Health Law Workshop: Jacob T. Elberg: Corporate Health Care Enforcement at a Crossroads: Newly Available Data and the Need for Comprehensive False Claims Act Reform
    Dec 2 2019

    Health Law Workshop: Jacob T. Elberg: Corporate Health Care Enforcement at a Crossroads: Newly Available Data and the Need for Comprehensive False Claims Act Reform

    Presentation Topic: “Corporate Health Care Enforcement at a Crossroads: Newly Available Data and the Need for Comprehensive False Claims Act Reform” About the Presenter Jacob T. Elberg is Associate Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law, where he teaches in the areas of Health Law, Health Care Fraud and Abuse, Evidence, and…