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…
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…
