Video is available on the main workshop website. Check it out here! Agenda Wednesday, April 26 – Emerson Hall, Room 105 5:00 – 6:30 pm: Opening Panel Thursday, April 27 – Tsai Auditorium, CGIS South, 1730 Cambridge Street 8:45 am: Welcome and Opening Remarks 9:00 am: Panel 1: Human Life and Law: Autonomy, Rights, Integrity,…
Panel discussion and screening of the documentary Newtown (2016) Couldn’t join us for the event? Check out some of the panelists’ slide presentations below! This film screening and panel discussion addressed challenges that arise from tragic acts of community violence. The event began with a screening of Newtown, a documentary examining the impact of the…
Identifying Ethical Implications Crowdfunding for medical care—seeking financial contributions from a large number of donors, often via social networks, to pay medical expenses—is growing in popularity in both the US and Canada. While the practice can have tangible benefits for some patients, it also raises challenging ethical and equity questions at the social level and…
Balancing Pain and Addiction Couldn’t join us for the event? Check out the slide presentations below! Description The current opiate epidemic has spurred long-overdue scrutiny on the pharmaceutical production and distribution of opiate medication, but it also raises questions of public policy and law regarding the regulation of medical access to and use of opiate…
Videos from the event are available on the conference website here! This year’s Just Food? Conference will focus on labor in the food system, exploring the issues most relevant to those who grow, harvest, prepare, and serve our food. Participants will learn from a diverse group of food system workers, advocates, scholars, practitioners and other…
A lecture by William B. Schultz, General Counsel of HHS, 2011-2016 Enacting universal healthcare was a 65 year project, which cost two Presidents control of Congress and jeopardized their chance for reelection. From the time the Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010 to the end of President Obama’s second term, its repeal was the…
The Next Generation of Biosimilars Couldn’t make it to the event? Check out some of the speakers’ slides below! Description Many of today’s important medications are biological products made from living organisms, manufactured through biotechnology, derived from natural sources, or produced synthetically. Biosimilars are a type of biological product approved by FDA on the basis…
Priorities, Strategies, and Predictions The Petrie-Flom Center hosted a live web panel to address what health care reform might look like under President-elect Trump’s administration. Expert panelists discussed the future of the Affordable Care Act under a “repeal and replace” strategy, alternative approaches to insurance coverage and access to care, the problem of high drug…
Legal and Policy Implications of Releasing Youth Incarcerated for Murder Couldn’t attend the event? Check out the speakers’ slide presentations below! Description Youth convicted of murder ordinarily serve decades in prison before they complete a sentence or are paroled. At the time of release, many of them have spent at least half of their entire…
Couldn’t join us for the event? Description For over 35 years, the “14-Day Rule,” prohibiting in vitro experimentation on embryos beyond 14 days, stood as an ethical line in the sand for embryo research around the world. Throughout the arc of the rule’s existence it had not been questioned, as scientists had been unable to…
