Eighth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review

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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

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

12:45 – 1:30pm, Lunch

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

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

3:40 – 3:50pm, Break

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

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

5:10 – 5:15pm, Closing Remarks

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.