Gun Violence: The Health Care System’s Role in a Public Health Epidemic

This is a past event

A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium

There is an epidemic of gun violence in the United States. Physicians are often on the frontline, but what can the health care system do to stem the epidemic? What evidence do we have about various legal options? How should change be implemented?

This event was free and open to the public.

Panelists


The Health Policy and Bioethics Consortia is a monthly series that convenes two international experts from different fields or vantage points to discuss how biomedical innovation and health care delivery are affected by various ethical norms, laws, and regulations.

They are organized by the Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics and the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, in collaboration with the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Support provided by the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund at Harvard University.