From Gene Editing, to Uterus Transplants, to Embryos Derived from Our Skin – How Technology Is Changing Reproduction Dean John F. Manning honored I. Glenn Cohen on the occasion of his appointment as the James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law Professor Cohen, who is also the Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center…
Description The shift to value-based care presents opportunities to improve care delivery for advanced illness. This panel featured thought leaders who identified key challenges and shared their visions for a future where new payment models align with improved advanced illness care. This event was free and open to the public. Agenda 9:30am, Registration 10:00am, Introductory…
Considering the Future of U.S. Policy on “Three-Parent IVF” Couldn’t join us? Check out the conversation on Twitter: @PetrieFlom #MRTpanel and some of our speakers’ slide presentations below! Learn more about the issues! Check out media coverage supporting the Petrie-Flom Center’s initiative to discuss lifting the prohibition on MRT in the United States, and a…
Description Human beings are biologically predisposed to divide humanity into ingroups and outgroups, and this comes with a great social cost – the capacity for hate. While we may view ourselves and our communities as benevolent and egalitarian, we often view outsiders as inhuman, unworthy, or alien, allowing us to victimize them in conscious and…
Overcoming Obstacles to Community-Driven Solutions Description The Massachusetts Department of Public Health estimates that in 2018 alone, approximately 2,000 people died in the Commonwealth from opioid-related overdoses. The overwhelming majority of those who died of overdoses that year tested positive for substances banned under the Controlled Substances Act, such as fentanyl (89%), cocaine (48%), and…
Medicaid Buy-In and State Trailblazing in Health Care Learn more about the “State Medicaid Buy-In Tracker” map here. Description States can be laboratories of health reform. States like Massachusetts and Oregon expanded coverage during previous periods of federal inaction. With solutions unlikely to come from a politically divided Washington D.C., how will states tackle the…
Description In a world beset by serious and unconscionable health disparities, by dangerous contagions that can circle our globalized planet in hours, and by a bewildering confusion of health actors and systems, humankind needs a new vision, a new architecture, new coordination among renewed systems to ensure central health capabilities for all. Dr. Jennifer Prah…
Couldn’t join us in person? Check out some of the panelists’ presentations and additional reading on this subject below! Description At the center of contemporary political debate are the record numbers of migrant families and children at the U.S.-Mexico border. As these parents and children flee the trauma of violence in their native countries, they…
A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium Couldn’t join us for the event? Check out some of the panelists’ slide presentations below! Description Black-box medicine—the use of opaque computational models to make care decisions—has the potential to shape health care by improving and aiding many medical tasks. For example, IBM Watson for Oncology is a machine-learning…
Description At the Seventh Annual Health Law Year in P/Review symposium, leading experts discussed major developments during 2018 and what to watch out for in 2019. Speakers covered hot topics including health policy under the current administration, pharmaceutical policy, and public health law. Featured panels explored “Challenges Facing Health Care General Counsels” and “AI in…
