The Petrie-Flom Center partnered with the Harvard Law School Project on Disability to screen selected portions of the PBS documentary film Through Deaf Eyes which explores the nearly 200 year history and culture of deaf communities in America. The film presented the shared experiences of American history – family life, education, work, and community connections…
Presentation Impact of Ethics and Economics on End-of-Life Decisions in an Indian Neonatal Unit Sadath Sayeed
Presentation Medical Bankruptcy in the United States Elizabeth Warren
Presentation A Comparison of European and Canadian Approaches to Choice and Regulation of the Public/Private Divide in Health Care Colleen Flood
Presentation Human/Non-Human Chimeras: Assessing the Issues Hank Greely
This panel examined current legislative debates concerning the development of regulatory approval processes for follow-on biologics, or large molecule drugs that are created by biological processes, as opposed to medicines created by chemical formulas. The panelists were Peter Hutt, Senior Counsel at Covington & Burling LLP and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, and…
Presentation The Thompsonian Movement and the Structures of American Health Law Theodore Ruger
Over two days in November, the Center convened leading thinkers in the area of health metrics evaluation to develop consensus on an appropriate set of metrics and tools for evaluating the impact of innovation on global health. The workshop brought together 30 distinguished scholars, medical researchers, and practitioners with experience in law, economics, philosophy, business,…
Patenting and other rewards that rely on protected markets to encourage research investment in medical technology do not always provide the right incentives needed to optimize public health. In recent years, a number of proposals have focused on replacing or supplementing the patent system and related incentives with a mechanism that rewards medical research based…
This colloquium brought together specialists on a group of model states and countries to discuss relevant health care systems, their successes and limitations, and their potential application to the reform of health care in the United States. The event aimed to interpret the U.S. reform effort in the context of the global system and to…
