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,…
A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium Description The US has struggled with an epidemic of prescription opioid overuse and abuse, which has contributed to an uptick in illegal drug use and affected communities across the country. Numerous states and organizations have tried different approaches to address the epidemic, including limitations on prescriptions and improving access…
Couldn’t join us for the event? Check out coverage from HLS Today and view some of the panelists’ slide presentations below! Description In March 2018, Cambridge University Press published Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics. This volume, edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Holly Fernandez Lynch, Urs Gasser, and Effy Vayena, stems from the Petrie-Flom Center’s…
Opportunities and Challenges for Ethical and Regulatory Oversight Description Efforts to place the patient at the center of medical research, spurred by the Affordable Care Act’s founding of the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute, have begun to change the way clinical research is conceptualized and conducted. Such efforts hold great promise, but also raise potential…
Beyond Disadvantage: Disability, Law, and Bioethics Couldn’t make it to the event? Check out some of the speakers’ slides here! “Congress acknowledged that society’s accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.” Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., School Bd. of Nassau, Fl….
