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Description

The Fourth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review symposium featured leading experts discussing major developments during 2015 and what to watch out for in 2016. The discussion at this day-long event covered hot topics in such areas as health insurance, health care systems, public health, innovation, and other issues facing clinicians and patients.

This year’s Health Law Year in P/Review was sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, the New England Journal of Medicine, Health Affairs, the Hastings Center, Harvard Health Publications at Harvard Medical School, and the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School, with support from the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund at Harvard University.

Agenda

Each speaker’s presentation was followed by time for Q & A.

8:00 – 8:30am, Registration

8:30 – 8:35am, Welcome Remarks

8:35 – 9:00am, The Current State of Health Care Reform

9:00 – 9:25am, Medicaid Expansion

9:25 – 9:50am, Value-Based Health Care Payments

9:50 – 10:15am, 2016 Presidential Election and Health Policy

10:15 – 10:30am, Break

10:30 – 10:55am, Proposed Amendments to the Common Rule Governing Human Subjects Research

10:55 – 11:20am, Expanded Access for Individuals and Right to Try Laws

11:20 – 11:45am, Fetal Tissue Research and Controversy

11:45am – 12:10pm, Wellness Incentives, the ADA, and GINA

12:10 – 12:30pm, Break

12:30 – 1:30pm, Debate: Information Sharing or Misleading Promotion? Evolving Case Law on Pharmaceutical Company Statements

1:30 – 1:40pm, Break

1:40 – 2:05pm, 21st-Century Cures

2:05 – 2:30pm, Trade Law’s Impact on Health Law

2:30 – 3:00pm, Health IP Update

3:00 – 3:25pm, Antitrust and Health Law

3:25 – 3:35pm, Break

3:35 – 4:00pm, Gun Control and Public Health Law

4:00 – 4:25pm, Opioid Addiction

4:25 – 5:00pm, #Blacklivesmatter and Health Law

5:00pm, Adjourn

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Health Affairs Blog Series

Debate: Information Sharing or Misleading Promotion? Evolving Case Law on Pharmaceutical Company Statements

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Partner Event

The Fourth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review was held in partnership with the American Journal of Law and Medicine‘s annual symposium.

Global Infectious Diseases: New Challenges and Solutions

Saturday, January 30, 2016, 8:15am – 5:00pm

Boston University School of Law

Infectious diseases were once relegated to the dustbin of history, but today emerging and re- emerging infectious diseases threaten health and health care systems in every country. Issues include whether we are blundering into a post-antibiotic apocalypse; how to prevent the emergence of global infectious diseases; and how to ensure equitable access to appropriate prevention and therapies across all income groups.

Recent events, such as the measles outbreak in the United States, the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, and litigation over a compounding pharmacy’s liability in the spread of fungal meningitis, highlight the legal, medical, and bioethical challenges posed by infectious diseases. This symposium focused on the interdisciplinary considerations and obstacles raised by these and similar developments. Panels discussed challenges and constraints to developing new treatments for infectious diseases, the global challenge of addressing diseases that do not recognize national borders, responsibilities relating to vaccination, the development of “super bugs” due to excessive use of antibiotics, and the possibility of expanding tort liability to cover the spread of infectious diseases.

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