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Critical Pathways to Improved Care for Serious Illness: Concluding Convening

June 23, 2017

Download the Report "Toward a Serious Illness Program Design & Implementation Framework" from the roundtables! Couldn't join us for the event? Check out the slide presentation below!…

Private Investment vs. Public Funding in Therapeutic Development: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium

May 12, 2017

Panelists Bhaven Sampat, PhD, Professor of Health Policy and Management, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health Terry McGuire, MS, MBA, Founding Partner, Polaris Partners Learn more about the Health…

2017 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Transparency in Health and Health Care: Legal and Ethical Possibilities and Limits

April 28, 2017

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Couldn't attend in person? You can still check out the conversation on Twitter: @PetrieFlom #transparencyinhealth! And check out many of the speakers' slide presentations below! Description Transparency is a…

Digital Health @ Harvard Brown Bag Lunch Series: Holding Hospitals Hostage: From HIPAA to Ransomware

April 27, 2017

The Digital Health @ Harvard brown bag lunch series features speakers from Harvard as well as collaborators and colleagues from other institutions who research the intersection between health and digital technology.…

Editorial Aspirations: Human Integrity at the Frontiers of Biology

April 26-28, 2017

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Video is available on the main workshop website. Check it out here! Agenda Wednesday, April 26 – Emerson Hall, Room 105 5:00 - 6:30 pm: Opening Panel Chair: J. Benjamin Hurlbut (Arizona State University)…

Healing in the Wake of Community Violence: Lessons from Newtown and Beyond: Panel discussion and screening of the documentary Newtown (2016)

April 18, 2017

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Couldn't join us for the event? Check out some of the panelists' slide presentations below! This film screening and panel discussion addressed challenges that arise from tragic acts of…

Health Law Workshop: Judith Daar

April 17, 2017

Presentation Download the Presentation: "A Clash at the Petri Dish: Transferring Embryos with Known Genetic Anomalies" About the Presenter Judith Daar is Professor of Law at Whittier Law…

Medical Errors and the Culture of Medicine: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium

April 14, 2017

Panelists Martin Makary, MD, MPH, Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Professor of Health Policy & Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Timothy Hofer, MD,…

Annual Health Law Conference: Between Complacency & Panic: Legal, Ethical and Policy Responses to Emerging Infectious Diseases

April 14, 2017

Speakers' presentation slides are available on the conference website here! Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) such as Ebola and the Zika virus pose potentially grave threats to human health. They can…

Health Law Workshop: Leo Beletsky

April 10, 2017

Presentation Download the presentation: "America’s Favorite Antidote: Murder-By-Overdose in the Age of the Opioid Epidemic" About the Presenter Leo Beletsky is Associate Professor of Law and…

Harvard Medical School 2017 Bioethics Conference: The Ethics of "Making Babies"

April 6 - 7, 2017

Description The use of assisted reproductive technologies raises far-reaching ethical and legal implications, yet there is little regulatory oversight of these medical procedures in the United States. In a field…

Crowdfunding Medical Care: Identifying Ethical Implications

April 5, 2017

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Crowdfunding for medical care—seeking financial contributions from a large number of donors, often via social networks, to pay medical expenses—is growing in popularity in both the…

Opiate Regulation Policies: Balancing Pain and Addiction

April 3, 2017

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Couldn't join us for the event? Check out the slide presentations below! Description The current opiate epidemic has spurred long-overdue scrutiny on the pharmaceutical production and distribution of opiate…

2017 Just Food? Conference

April 1, 2017

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Videos from the event are available on the conference website here! This year’s Just Food? Conference will focus on labor in the food system, exploring the issues most…

Digital Health @ Harvard Brown Bag Lunch Series: Using Mobile Phone Data to Map Migration and Disease: Politics, Privacy, and Public Health

March 30, 2017

The Digital Health @ Harvard brown bag lunch series features speakers from Harvard as well as collaborators and colleagues from other institutions who research the intersection between health and digital technology.…

Promoting Accurate and Useful Public Reporting on Physicians: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium

March 29, 2017

Panelists Robert Yeh, MD, Director, Richard A. and Susan F. Smith Center for Outcomes Research in Cardiology at BIDMC; Medical Director of Trial Design, Harvard Clinical Research Institute Thomas Lee,…

Health Law Workshop: Kathryn Zeiler

March 27, 2017

Presentation Topic: "Communication-And-Resolution Programs: The Numbers Don’t Add Up" This paper is not available for download. To request a copy in preparation for the workshop, please…

The Affordable Care Act: Past, Present, and Future: A lecture by William B. Schultz, General Counsel of HHS, 2011-2016

March 23, 2017

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Enacting universal healthcare was a 65 year project, which cost two Presidents control of Congress and jeopardized their chance for reelection. From the time the Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010…

Critical Pathways to Improved Care for Serious Illness

March 10, 2017

This discussion continued at a second roundtable event on June 23, 2017. Learn more on the website! Download the Report "Toward a Serious Illness Program Design & Implementation Framework" from…

Health Law Workshop: Khiara Bridges

March 6, 2017

Presentation Download the presentation now: ​Proposal, Untitled Ethnography (2016) Introduction, "Reproducing Race" (2011) Note from the Presenter: I am circulating the introductory chapter from my first ethnography, Reproducing Race: An…