Past Events

Event Description We marked the publication of COVID-19 and the Law: Disruption, Impact and Legacy, an edited volume based on the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2021 annual conference, published in partnership with the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School. In this moderated discussion, prominent experts and contributors to the volume will reflect on the…

Event Description Leading experts in health and human rights shared the capstone webinar to Harvard Petrie-Flom Center’s Bill of Health symposium on the 2023 Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies.

The Health Law Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology Workshop provides a forum for discussion of new scholarship in these fields from the world’s leading experts. The workshop is led by Professor I. Glenn Cohen, and presenters come from a wide range of disciplines and departments. Harvard graduate students may register to take the workshop for course…

Event Description Drawing on the science of substance use disorders (SUD), this presentation focusws on legal responses to SUD that contradict neuroscience and behavioral research, such as incarcerating individuals on probation following a relapse. Implications for bail, sentencing, probation, and parole were discussed as well as client-centered considerations. The presentation also included science-informed criminal justice…

Event Description A child born in America today has a 37% chance of having their welfare investigated by the state by the time they turn 18. For black children, the probability rises to 53%. Over next 18 years, 145 million American children will be referred to child protective services. What does this mean? And what…

Event Description The information revolution has ushered in a data-driven reorganization of the workplace. Big data and AI are used to surveil workers and shift risk. Workplace wellness programs appraise our health. Personality job tests calibrate our mental state. The monitoring of social media and surveillance of the workplace measure our social behavior. With rich…

Event Description Military veterans and active-duty service members experience unique stressors and are heavily impacted by depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and suicide. As part of the evolving psychedelic renaissance, researchers are exploring therapeutic interventions such as psilocybin, MDMA, and ibogaine. These substances produce profound changes of cognition, perception, and mood. Clinical trials suggest they may…

Event Description If the COVID-19 pandemic was a stress test for multilateral cooperation, the world failed both in relation to intellectual property regimes and economic solidarity. The COVID-19 pandemic exposed serious weaknesses in the framework of global governance for health, as well as in the normative standards relating to public health emergencies. The International Health…

Event Description Join the HLS Library on Wednesday October 4 at 1pm ET for a HLS Library Book Talk on When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality, 2nd ed. with author Alicia Ely Yamin and panelists Aziza Ahmed (Boston University Law School), Jesse Bump (Harvard T.H. Chan School of…

Event Description Studies have shown that ChatGPT — a generative AI chatbot — can help to diagnose a number of medical conditions. But generative AI is just one buzzy development in a field already crowded with technologies that promise to move diagnosis out of the confines of the clinic and into the homes of patients….