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…
Description To control the costs of prescription drugs, Germany combines immediate access to innovative drugs with price controls. The system assesses scientific evidence on the value of new drugs to determine adequate price ranges. While price controls are supervised by the government, the system is administered by public sickness funds, an independent scientific institute, and…
A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium Couldn’t join us for the event? Check out the speakers’ slide presentations! Description In recent years, some cities have tried to impose soda taxes and other new policies to reduce the obesity epidemic in the US—particularly among children—and its critical impact on society and the health care system. How…
Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality Description When Misfortune Becomes Injustice (Stanford University Press, February 2020) surveys the progress and challenges faced in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over the last thirty years, with a particular focus on women’s health and sexual and reproductive health and rights. Author…
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,…
How Artificial Intelligence and Digital Phenotyping Can Advance Social Good Couldn’t join us for the event? Check out some of the panelists’ slide presentations below! And read a write-up of the event in the Harvard Crimson! Description The future of neuroscience and law will be a computational future, as both fields are increasingly integrating artificial…
How U.S. Action on HIV/AIDS Has Changed Global Health Couldn’t join us for the event? Check out some of the speakers’ slide presentations and blog posts! Description In May 2003, the U.S. Congress passed bipartisan legislation authorizing a bold new plan to combat a fast-spreading, deadly epidemic. In the 15+ years since, the President’s Emergency…
