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…
Digital Health @ Harvard Series Description Infectious disease emergencies are opportunities to test the efficacy of newly developed interventions (e.g. drugs, vaccines and treatment regimens), yet they raise many intertwined challenges of politics, logistics, ethics, and study design. Consistent with the efforts of CEPI, WHO, and others to encourage development and Phase I/II testing of…
From Development to Delivery Couldn’t join us? Check out the conversation on Twitter: @PetrieFlom #drugpricing and some of our speakers’ slide presentations below! Description This one-day conference explored the current pharmaceutical pricing landscape by bringing together leaders from the pharmaceutical industry, policymakers, legal practitioners, and scholars to engage in novel, interdisciplinary discussions to better understand…
Medicaid Work Requirements: Limitations in Digitally Identifying Individuals for Exemption Due to Disability Description This year, several states applied for and received permission from the federal government to implement work requirements in their Medicaid programs. Policy designs vary by state, but all states build in considerations for people with disabilities. These considerations include exemptions and…
Part of Outbreak Week at Harvard University Description Led by the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI), Outbreak Week was a University-wide effort to commemorate the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people around the globe. As the capstone of Outbreak Week, this full-day conference featured a keynote address by Anthony Fauci, Director…
Part of Outbreak Week at Harvard University Description Led by HGHI, Outbreak Week was a University-wide effort to commemorate the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people around the globe. Featuring keynotes from Michael Ryan, Deputy Director of the World Health Organization’s Emergency Response Programme and Nicole Lurie, Strategic Advisor to the…
Part of Outbreak Week at Harvard University Description Led by HGHI, Outbreak Week was a University-wide effort to commemorate the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people around the globe. At this symposium on “Media in the Age of Contagions,” journalists who have covered public and global health for print, television, radio,…
