Health Policy & Bioethics Consortia: The Indian Health Service: Improving Health Equity or Failing to Meet Obligations?
Event Description
The Indian Health Service (IHS) is the federal agency responsible for delivering health care services to American Indians and Alaskan Natives. Despite treaty obligations, the IHS has been chronically underfunded, even in comparison to other federal health programs, and health disparities persist. This session will consider the complex laws governing Tribal and federal health programs, which were highlighted during COVID-19 public health actions, efforts to improve Tribal health care, and what can be done in the future for the federal government to meet its obligations.
Panelists
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Tom Sequist, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer, Mass General Brigham; Professor of Medicine and Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School
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Aila Hoss, JD, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
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Moderator: Tony V. Pham, MD, Research Fellow in Indigenous Community Well-Being, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital
The Health Policy & 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 with support from the Oswald DeN. Cammann Fund at Harvard University.
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global health and rights project health law policy public health