Current Realities and the Future of Pharmaceutical Pricing Regulations in the United States From “Pharma Bro” Martin Shkreli to huge price jumps for the EpiPen to the Hepatitis C treatment that costs $1000 per pill, pharmaceutical pricing is a major issue in the news and in Washington. The regular introduction of new, often expensive therapeutics…
A Lecture by Larry Levitt Larry Levitt delivered a lecture on the future of the Affordable Care Act and health care in America. Larry Levitt is Senior Vice President for Special Initiatives at the Kaiser Family Foundation and Senior Advisor to the President of the Foundation. Prior to joining the Foundation, he served as a…
In July 2017, Cambridge University Press published Law, Religion, and Health in the United States, co-edited by outgoing Petrie-Flom Center Executive Director Holly Fernandez Lynch, Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen, and Elizabeth Sepper, Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law. This edited volume stems from the Center’s 2015 annual conference, which brought together…
A lecture by Francis X. Shen Couldn’t join us for the event? Check out the panelist’s slide presentation below! Description Rapid advances in the brain sciences offer both promise and peril for the law. In light of these developments, Dr. Francis Shen explored how neuroscientific analysis of law is revolutionizing legal doctrine and practice. Dr….
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…
