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…
The Role of Law and the Courts Couldn’t join us for the event? Check out some of the speakers’ blog posts! Description Battles over sexual and reproductive health and rights, particularly abortion rights, are occurring around the world. Mexico has witnessed heated political and legal mobilization by both progressive and conservative forces regarding the issue…
Description In June 2019, Cambridge University Press published Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States. This volume, edited by Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar, and Barbara J. Evans, stems from the Petrie-Flom Center’s 2017 annual conference, which brought together leading experts to reach better understandings of this health policy…
How Medicine and Technology are Remaking Reproduction and the Law Couldn’t join us for the book talk? Check out some of the speakers’ slide presentations and blog posts! Description Millions of Americans rely on the likes of birth control, IVF, and genetic testing to make plans as intimate and far-reaching as any over a lifetime….
Consuming Genetics: Ethical and Legal Considerations of New Technologies Couldn’t join us for the conference? Join the conversation on Twitter with #DTCgenome! And check out many of our speakers’ slide presentations and our “Consuming Genetics” blog symposium! The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is pleased to announce…
