Couldn’t join us for the event? Check out some of the panelists’ slide presentations below! Description Value-based health care is one of the most pressing topics in health care finance and policy today. Value-based payment structures are widely touted as critical to controlling runaway health care costs, but are often difficult for health care entities…
Creating a Viral Underclass in the Law Description HLS Lambda hosted this lecture on HIV stigma, criminalization, and activism. Sean Strub is a longtime HIV survivor, founder of POZ magazine, director of the Sero Project, and an advocate for people living with HIV. He is the author of Body Counts: A Memoir of Politics, AIDS,…
A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium Couldn’t join us for the event? Check out the panelists’ slide presentations below! Description In the past several years, the United States has struggled to respond to viral outbreaks, such as Ebola and Zika. There is now an awareness of the need to rapidly develop vaccines and treatments for…
Health Care Costs and Transparency Description Health spending continues outpace wages and GDP, while some new insurance designs transfer greater shares of that to patients’ own out of pocket costs. In this talk, Dr. Freedman discussed what is driving health care costs up, who is benefiting, and how data is harnessed to study problems and…
HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness Couldn’t join us for the event? Check out the video of the event here! Please join us for a talk with Trevor Hoppe on his book, Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness. The book examines how and why US policymakers and public health systems have adopted coercive…
Pre-Workshop Webcast and Workshop Video of the full event will be posted here soon! Want updates sent to your inbox? Sign up for our newsletter! Couldn’t join us in person for the January 26 workshop? Join the conversation online: @theNASEM @PetrieFlom #ILAR You can also see some of our panelists’ slide presentations below! Description In…
Couldn’t join us? Check out the conversation on Twitter: @PetrieFlom #healthlawpreview2018 and some of our speakers’ slide presentations below! Description The Sixth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review symposium featured leading experts discussing major developments during 2017 and what to watch out for in 2018. The discussion at this day-long event covered hot topics in…
Ethics and Human Rights in U.S. Prisons The United States leads the world in incarceration. The “War on Drugs” and prioritizing punishment over rehabilitation has led to mass imprisonment, mainly of the nation’s most vulnerable populations: people of color, the economically disadvantaged and undereducated, and those suffering from mental illness. Although these social disparities are…
America’s Aging Judges and Politicians Couldn’t join us for the event? Check out some of the panelists’ slide presentations below! Description Our judiciary and our elected officials are getting old. Five of the nine Supreme Court Justices are 67 or older, with two over age 80. The President is 71, the Senate Majority Leader is…
Part of the HLS200 Bicentennial Celebration This event was part of the HLS in the World sessions of HLS │200, a bicentennial summit of academic sessions and programs devoted to legal issues of pressing importance. Panel Description New technologies with implications for human health and enhancement are developing at breakneck speed, with fundamental changes in…
