The Petrie-Flom Center hosted a discussion of the issues surrounding noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT), a screening method for detecting certain specific chromosomal abnormalities, as well as sex, in utero. NIPT may help mothers avoid other tests that could put their pregnancies at risk, but the ability to detect substantial information about a developing fetus with…
Health, Law, and Human Rights in Surrogacy and Egg Donation A screening of the documentary Can We See the Baby Bump, Please?, which was followed by a panel discussion of the legal and human rights issues surrounding surrogacy and egg donation in a global context. The film screening began at 5PM, followed by the panel…
MIT Press recently published Human Subjects Research Regulation: Perspectives on the Future (2014), co-edited by Petrie-Flom Center Faculty Director, I. Glenn Cohen, and Executive Director, Holly Fernandez Lynch. This edited volume stems from the Center’s 2012 annual conference, which brought together leading experts in a conversation about whether and how the current system of human…
(followed by Petrie-Flom’s 2014 Open House) New healthcare start-ups face a range of legal and ethical challenges as they develop new products and services and solicit financial support from investors. Building on the success of the President’s Challenge at the Harvard Innovation Lab, which invites teams of Harvard students to develop innovative solutions to a…
A conversation with the Boston office of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General (OIG), Office of Evaluation and Inspections. The OIG has for decades served as the foremost government watchdog of federal healthcare programs, overseeing Medicare, Medicaid, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and…
Ethics and Implementation Conference Description Who: Clinical research sponsors, investigators, funders, regulators, trial participants, and other stakeholders Introduction / Background: The term “post-trial access” is used broadly to connote a wide range of possibilities for providing continued access to study interventions (and potentially other care) once a trial is over, or a subject’s participation has…
Behavioral Economics, Law, and Health Policy Couldn’t join us in person at Harvard Law School? Join the conversation on Twitter using #BELHP2014! We also liveblogged the full event at Bill of Health throughout the conference on Friday, May 2 and Saturday, May 3! Check it out here! Registrants can access conference materials via Dropbox here….
Plus Q&A on Careers in Law and Bioethics! Couldn’t attend in person? Check out the speakers’ slides below! This event featured an update from the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues delivered by Michelle Groman (HLS ’05), Associate Director at the Bioethics Commission. Since its inception in 2009, President Obama’s Commission has issued…
Description More than 30 years have passed since AIDS first appeared in the United States. Today the CDC estimates that 1.1 million Americans are living with HIV/AIDS, and each year 50,000 Americans are newly diagnosed. Despite great strides in education, awareness, prevention, and treatment, people affected by HIV/AIDS still face significant discrimination, including unequal treatment…
Book Talk and Panel Discussion We hosted this book talk and panel discussion for Professor Frances Kamm’s latest book, Bioethical Prescriptions: To Create, End, Choose, and Improve Lives (Oxford University Press, December 2013). The book showcased Professor Kamm’s articles on bioethics as parts of a coherent whole, with sections devoted to death and dying; early…
