A Moderated Discussion Online Viewing Couldn’t join the webinar? Event Description Structural racism pervades all facets of society, from education, to housing, to law enforcement. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the health disparities that result from this systemic and structural racism. The Petrie-Flom Center has asked leading scholars in law, public health, history, sociology, and…
Couldn’t join the webinar? Event Description The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a health crisis, or even an economic crisis, but also a critical inflection point for democracy and the rule of law. The pandemic has presented a test for the legitimacy of democratic governance, and perhaps nowhere are the stakes higher than in Latin…
Global Perspectives Online Resources Couldn’t join the webinar? Event Description The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged health systems around the world, displacing attention to other much-needed services and conditions. It has particularly impacted access to sexual and reproductive health goods and services—not only in the U.S., as discussed in Reproductive Rights in 2020: June Medical Services…
June Medical Services v. Russo and COVID-19 Online Resources Couldn’t join the webinar? Event Description 2020 has been a notable year for reproductive rights. On one hand, the Supreme Court has decided June Medical Services v. Russo, its first abortion-related case following the changeover from Justices Scalia and Kennedy to Gorsuch and Kavanaugh. On the…
Health Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic Online Viewing Fully captioned video of the panel discussion and panelists’ slide presentations below! Join the conversation on Twitter: @PetrieFlom #PPEethics! Event Description Personal protective equipment or PPE has been a major topic of discussion across the nation. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed major shortages of PPE and health…
Exploring Resource Allocation and the Framing of Disability Online Resources Couldn’t join the webinar? Event Description The COVID-19 Pandemic is raising difficult to answer questions regarding the allocation of scare resources, such as ventilators. Providers are struggling to triage access to ventilators ethically. Some have argued that we should consider health status and maximizing health…
Guaranteeing Health Rights and Universal Health Coverage Online Viewing Couldn’t join us during the webinar? Description Each year in low- and middle-income countries thousands of people are detained in hospitals for non-payment of medical bills, despite the fact that such detention is a violation of national and international law. Hospital detention for nonpayment of bills…
Equity, Access, and Interdependence Online Viewing Couldn’t join us for the live webstream? Join the conversation on Twitter with #AIanddisability , and check out the speakers’ slide presentations below! You can also watch the full event! Description This event highlighted the challenges and opportunities in harnessing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to serve the needs of…
A Key to Health System Transformation Description Despite most patients’ preferences to die at home among their loved ones, many with end-stage cancer, heart failure, and other advanced illnesses spend their last days in the hospital. Many clinicians resist telling patients that treatments are not working or that their prognosis is poor, fearful of destroying…
Event Description In the fifteen years since the United States Supreme Court referred to developmental science in ruling the death penalty unconstitutional for juveniles in Roper v. Simmons, state and federal courts have seen a wave of neuroscience-informed juvenile justice litigation. Advocates have come to see neuroscience as a powerful tool, and the Supreme Court…
