At the Petrie-Flom Center’s eighth annual Health Law Year in P/Review, leading experts discussed major developments in health law and policy during 2019 and what to watch out for in 2020. Speakers covered hot topics including immigration and health concerns, gene editing in international contexts, coming developments in health IT, health and life sciences IP, and pharmaceutical policy. In the lead up to the 2020 election, we featured a debate on the topic “Is Universal Health Care Coverage Achievable?”

This event was free and open to the public.

Agenda

8:30 – 9:00am, Registration

9:00 – 9:05am, Welcome Remarks

• ​I. Glenn Cohen, James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School

9:05 – 9:50am, Challenges Facing Health Care General Counsels

• Andrew Fuqua, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Cambridge Health Alliance
• Catheryn O’Rourke, Chief Legal and Compliance Officer, Smith + Nephew
• Moderator: ​I. Glenn Cohen, James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School

9:50 – 10:50am, Health and Life Sciences IP

• Claire Laporte, Head of Intellectual Property, Gingko Bioworks
• Jacob S. Sherkow, Edmond J. Safra Center and Petrie-Flom Center Fellow in Ethics of Technological and Biomedical Innovation; Professor of Law, Innovation Center for Law and Technology, New York Law School; Permanent Visiting Professor, Center for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law, University of Copenhagen Faculty of Law
• Andrew Torrance, Senior Director, Intellectual Property at Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Paul E. Wilson Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Kansas School of Law

10:50 – 11:00am, Break

11:00 – 11:45am, Coming Developments in Health IT

• Sara Gerke, Research Fellow, Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and Law, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School
• Adam Landman, Chief Information Officer, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• Moderator: Rina K. Spence, former President and CEO, Emerson Hospital, Concord, MA; advisor to the Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law Project, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School

11:45am – 12:45pm, Is Universal Health Care Coverage Achievable?

• Joseph Antos, Wilson H. Taylor Scholar in Health Care and Retirement Policy, American Enterprise Institute
• John McDonough, Professor of the Practice of Public Health and Director of Executive and Continuing Professional Education, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
• Moderator: Robert Greenwald, Clinical Professor of Law and Faculty Director, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation and Health Law and Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School

12:45 – 1:30pm, Lunch

1:30 – 2:10pm, Health Care in the Election

• David Blumenthal, President, The Commonwealth Fund

2:10 – 3:40pm, Immigration and Health Concerns

• Sabrineh Ardalan, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Assistant Director, Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, Harvard Law School
• Tiffany Joseph, Associate Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Northeastern University
• Wendy E. Parmet, Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law and Director, Center for Health Policy and Law, Northeastern University School of Law and Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, Northeastern University School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs
• Francis X. Shen, Executive Director, Center for Law, Brain & Behavior, MGH; Instructor in Psychology, Harvard Medical School; and Associate Professor of Law, McKnight Presidential Fellow, and faculty member in the Graduate Program on Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota
• Moderator: Alicia Ely Yamin, Senior Fellow, Global Health and Rights Project, Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School

3:40 – 3:50pm, Break

3:50 – 4:30pm, International Responses to Gene Editing

• Sheila Jasanoff, Pforzheimer Professor of Science and Technology Studies, and Director, Science, Technology & Society Program, Harvard Kennedy School of Government

4:30 – 5:10pm, Challenges in Drug Pricing

• Aaron Kesselheim, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; faculty member, Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Director, Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

5:10 – 5:15pm, Closing Remarks

• ​I. Glenn Cohen, James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School

Past P/Reviews

How were our health law and policy predictions for 2019? Check out videos of all of the presentations at the 7th Annual Health Law Year in P/Review and the blog symposium at Bill of Health!

This event was sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, with support from the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund at Harvard University.