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…
The Food Safety Modernization Act and Beyond Sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center; the Food Law and Policy Clinic (a division of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation); the Food Law Lab; and the Harvard Food Law Society; with support from the Top University Strategic Alliance and the Dean’s Office at Harvard Law School….
Couldn’t attend in person? Learn more about the event: At our second Annual Health Law Year in P/Review event, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the New England Journal of Medicine welcomed experts discussing major developments during 2013 and what to watch out for in areas…
Could Rating Help? Imagine a rating or accreditation system for companies’ “global health footprint.” Such a system would rigorously assess companies’ overall impact on human health, including the health of the world’s poorest and sickest populations, then disseminate this information in ways that users could readily understand and act upon. If successful, such a system…
This discussion of selected topics in the field of international reproductive rights addressed a range of issues. Expert panelists were: Co-sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics; the Human Rights Program; and the Child Advocacy Program at Harvard Law School; and the Harvard Global Health Institute.
Book Talk and Discussion by Editor I. Glenn Cohen I. Glenn Cohen, Faculty Co-Director of the Petrie-Flom Center and Professor at Harvard Law School, discussed his new edited volume The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues, published by Oxford University Press in March 2013. The book ties together the manifestation of health care…
We don’t stand for doctors discriminating against patients on the basis of race, but what about when the tables are turned? At this event, Kimani Paul-Emile of Fordham Law School led a discussion of her new article in the UCLA Law Review, Patients’ Racial Preferences and the Medical Culture of Accommodation. Renee Landers of Suffolk…
What Have We Learned? Objectives: Please see the conference page for further information. A final agenda, featuring keynote speakers Dr. Jeff Drazen (NEJM) and Dr. Albert J. “AJ” Allen (Lilly) as well as regulators from US, EMA, Canada, Japan, Russia and other countries, may be viewed here. Download the final conference report. Co-sponsored by the…
