Past Events

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…

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 promises to trigger an explosion in the use of electronic health records through direct payments to health providers. While the privacy concerns related to electronic health records (EHR) have been discussed at length, little attention has been given to the impact EHR might have on a provider’s…

Jeff Crowley, the White House Director of National AIDS Policy and Senior Advisor on Disability Policy, visited Harvard Law School to speak about the Obama Administration’s agendas for health reform, developing a national AIDS strategy, addressing health disparities, and disability rights. Mr. Crowley addressed the issue of health reform, noting that it dominates the Obama…