Description At this reception, faculty, colleagues, and students with shared interests in health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics gathered to learn about what the Petrie-Flom Center does and how to get involved. Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen and Executive Director Carmel Shachar reviewed our sponsored research portfolio, introduced our staff and fellows, and described various…
Description In March 2018, Cambridge University Press published Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics. This volume, edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Holly Fernandez Lynch, Urs Gasser, and Effy Vayena, stems from the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2016 annual conference, which brought together leading experts to identify the various ways in which law and ethics intersect with the…
Presentation Download the Presentation: “Health Misinformation and the Power of Narrative Messaging in the Public Sphere” Background Reading: About the Presenter Timothy Caulfield is a Canada Research Chair in Health Law and Policy, a Professor in the Faculty of Law and the School of Public Health, and Research Director of the Health Law Institute at…
Description Efforts to place the patient at the center of medical research, spurred by the Affordable Care Act’s founding of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, have begun to change the way clinical research is conceptualized and conducted. Such efforts hold great promise, but also raise potential challenges for ethical oversight. How should oversight bodies…
Description The Networking Exchange showcased life science technologies developed at universities, research institutions, and hospitals of Massachusetts. The event provided a range of opportunities to engage with Massachusetts technology licensing offices, including Boston Children’s Hospital, Brandeis University, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University, Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute, Massachusetts Institute…
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School 2018 annual conference was organized in collaboration with the Harvard Law School Project on Disability. Conference Description Historically and across societies people with disabilities have been stigmatized and excluded from social opportunities on a variety of culturally specific grounds. These justifications…
Description High drug costs reduce patient adherence and lead to worse outcomes. The process for translating a drug’s price, set by the manufacturer, to cost paid by patients and health care institutions is complex and involves a number of different actors. Can we develop policies that optimize pharmaceutical spending to ensure that patients can access…
Description Economic ordeals are interventions that deliberately make access to products or services more difficult in an effort to improve resource allocation. In this vein, making patients wait in long lines to schedule an appointment with a specialist might discourage patients with needs that could be met by less qualified personnel from taking up the…
With over 70 million Baby Boomers retiring, elder financial exploitation has been labeled the “Crime of the 21st Century.” In this half-day event, we explored the neuroscience, psychology, and legal doctrine of financial decision-making in older adults. How does the aging brain make financial decisions, and when is it uniquely susceptible? How can courts best…
Couldn’t join us for the event? Check out some of the panelist’ slide presentations below! Decision aids can be highly-effective tools to promote shared decision making and support patients in becoming engaged participants in their healthcare. This was a first-ever convening with leaders behind a Washington experiment in certifying decision aids, as state officials, health…
