Annual Health Law Conference: Between Complacency & Panic

This is a past event

Legal, Ethical and Policy Responses to Emerging Infectious Diseases

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 also incite overreations that lead to the scapegoating of vulnerable populations and counter-productive public health responses, such as those that occurred during the 2014 Ebola outbreak. This one-day conference will bring together leading policymakers, practitioners and academics to explore the dangers of such diseases and to discuss the development of effective, evidence-based, legally sound and ethically appropriate policy responses.

Agenda

8:30 AM: Welcome

8:45 AM: Keynote Address

10:00 AM: Plenary Panel: Emerging Infectious Diseases: Learning from the Past, Preparing for the Future

11:45 AM: Break

12:00 PM: Concurrent Panels I

1:15 PM: Lunch

  • Introduction: Michael Pollastri, Chair, Chemistry and Chemical Biology Department, Northeastern University

2:45 PM: Concurrent Panels II

4:00 PM: Break

4:15 PM: Breakout Sessions

5:30 PM: Closing Reception

Speakers’ presentation slides are available on the conference website here!

This conference was co-sponsored by the Northeastern University School of Law and its Center for Health Policy and Law, and the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics, with generous support from the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, Trident Legal, and The John and Sonia Lingos Family Foundation.