In 2008, the NIH Public Access Policy became a statutory mandate, requiring “that all investigators funded by the NIH submit or have submitted for them to the National Library of Medicine’s PubMed Central an electronic version of their final, peer-reviewed manuscripts upon acceptance for publication, to be made publicly available no later than 12 months…
Presenting as part of the 2012-2013 Radcliffe Fellows Series, Petrie-Flom Faculty co-Director I. Glenn Cohen discussed the growing phenomenon of medical tourism, the practice of citizens of one country traveling to seek medical care in another country. His lecture discussed the emerging legal and ethical issues brought up by the many varieties of medical tourism—for…
During this special off-the-record debate on American health care reform, moderated by the Petrie-Flom Center’s Founding Faculty Director Einer Elhauge, John McDonough, official surrogate of the Obama campaign and director of the Center for Public Health Leadership at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Oren Cass, domestic policy director for the Romney campaign, discussed…
Presentation Why Medicare Reform Hasn’t Worked Nick Bagley
Professor Michael Sandel introduced his new book What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets, arguing that there should be norms that govern our relationship with certain goods and that markets corrupt these norms. Michael J. Sandel is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government at Harvard University, where he has…
Presentation Why is Consent a Requirement for Ethical Research? Alan Wertheimer
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently released an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM), titled “Human Subjects Research Protections: Enhancing Protections for Research Subjects and Reducing Burden, Delay, and Ambiguity for Investigators” which proposes to substantially amend the Common Rule for the first time in twenty years. This development, as well as…
Presentation Reconceptualizing the Risk of Long-Term Care Allison Hoffman
Presentation The Split Benefit: The Painless Way to Put Skin Back in the Healthcare Game Christopher Robertson
Presentation The Oregon Health Insurance Experiment: Evidence from the First Year Katherine Baiker
