Events by Academic Year: 2018-2019
2019 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Consuming Genetics: Ethical and Legal Considerations of New Technologies
Couldn't join us for the conference? Join the conversation on Twitter with #DTCgenome! And check out many of our speakers' slide presentations and our "Consuming Genetics" blog…
The Science and Ethics of Chimera Research: Part of the Ethics Frontiers Seminar Series
Description Stem cell-based human/animal chimera research involves the transfer of human stem cells into animal hosts at various stages of development. The purpose of this research is to introduce…
The Ethics of Cancer Screening: When Should We Screen and When Should We Not?: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Description There is substantial debate over whether and how we should screen the general population to detect cancers such as breast, prostate, and colon cancer. The principle of early detection…
I. Glenn Cohen Chair Lecture - The Second Reproductive Revolution: From Gene Editing, to Uterus Transplants, to Embryos Derived from Our Skin – How Technology Is Changing Reproduction
Dean John F. Manning honored I. Glenn Cohen on the occasion of his appointment as the James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law Professor Cohen, who is also…
Providing Value and Redesigning Care for Serious Illness
Description The shift to value-based care presents opportunities to improve care delivery for advanced illness. This panel featured thought leaders who identified key challenges and shared their visions for a…
Can Ethical Labeling Make Food Systems Healthy, Sustainable, and Just?: Lessons from a Critical Evaluation of the Democratic Governance Capacity of Animal Welfare Labeling
Description In this talk, Professor Christine Parker critically investigated the role of food labeling and its contestation as a governance pathway towards healthy, sustainable, and fair food systems. Consumers are…
Gene Editing of Babies and Universal Human Rights: Hot Topics in Health Law
At this event, Professor George Annas, beloved health law professor at Boston University, discussed gene editing of babies and the idea of health care as a human right. The event…
Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy: Considering the Future of U.S. Policy on "Three-Parent IVF"
Couldn't join us? Check out the conversation on Twitter: @PetrieFlom #MRTpanel and some of our speakers' slide presentations below! Learn more about the issues! Check out media coverage supporting…
On Life and Death in Rikers with Dr. Homer Venters
“The closing of Rikers is absolutely necessary. It's not sufficient to transform the criminal justice system in New York City to become more humane, but it's necessary.…
Harvard Medical School Annual Bioethics Conference 2019: Controlling Death: The Policies, Practices, and Ethics of Choosing When We Die
Couldn't join us? Check out the Harvard Gazette's coverage of the event! Alvin Powell, "As the end nears, who’s in control?: Center for Bioethics examines…
The Future of Medicaid’s Health Care Safety Net: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Description Medicaid is a federal- and state-subsidized health insurance program that covers about 75 million lower income people and is one of the largest payers for health care in the United…
The Neuroscience of Hate
Description Human beings are biologically predisposed to divide humanity into ingroups and outgroups, and this comes with a great social cost – the capacity for hate. While we may view…
What Should Happen to Our Medical Records When We Die?: Digital Health @ Harvard
Couldn't join us at the event? Check out our presenter's slides! Description Digital innovation is transforming health care, and the amount of digital health care data being generated…
Public Health Approaches to the Opioid Crisis: Overcoming Obstacles to Community-Driven Solutions
Description The Massachusetts Department of Public Health estimates that in 2018 alone, approximately 2,000 people died in the Commonwealth from opioid-related overdoses. The overwhelming majority of those who died of overdoses that…
Health Law Careers in the Public Sector
Description The Harvard Health Law Society hosted this panel discuss where students learned more about practicing health law through a public interest career. This event was free and open to…
The Future of Health Care?: Medicaid Buy-In and State Trailblazing in Health Care
Learn more about the "State Medicaid Buy-In Tracker" map here. Description States can be laboratories of health reform. States like Massachusetts and Oregon expanded coverage during previous periods…
Book Talk: Global Health Justice and Governance
Description In a world beset by serious and unconscionable health disparities, by dangerous contagions that can circle our globalized planet in hours, and by a bewildering confusion of health actors…
Genome Editing: Rights and Wrongs: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Gene-editing technologies offer substantial promise in treating disease, but their use raises important ethical and public health questions about how these innovations should be applied and regulated. Different groups have…
Trauma at the Border
Couldn't join us in person? Check out some of the panelists' presentations and additional reading on this subject below! Description At the center of contemporary political debate are the…
Accelerating Alternatives to Animal Experimentation
This panel gave an overview of the current state of developing alternatives to animal use in science and research, before then discussing whether an “accelerator” type business model…