Postdoctoral Fellowships
Postdoctoral Fellowships
The Petrie-Flom Center hosts a range of postdoctoral fellows working on issues at the intersection of health law policy, biotechnology and bioethics.
Past Fellowships
Digital Home Health
David A. Simon joined the Petrie-Flom Center’s Diagnosing in the Home: The Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Home Health in May 2021. As a Research Fellow, David oversees the day-to-day work of this project, including conducting law, policy, and ethics research; drafting reports and recommendations; and coordinating the Center's world-wide collaboration with stakeholders from academia, non-profits, private industry, and the public sector.
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The Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR)
David Angelatos was a Research Fellow at the Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation (POPLAR) at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School from 2021 to 2022. In that role, he was responsible for the project’s day-to-day work, including law, policy, and ethics research, initial drafting of reports for state regulators, and writing articles for publication in legal and medical journals.
Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and Law
Sara Gerke joined the Petrie-Flom Center's Project on Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law (PMAIL) in August 2018. As Research Fellow in Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and Law, Sara oversaw the day-to-day work of the Center’s component of this collaborative project, including conducting law, policy, and ethics research; drafting reports and recommendations; and coordinating the Center's efforts with collaborators at the Center for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL) at the University of Copenhagen as well as other partners.
Learn more about the Project on Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law (PMAIL)!
Ethics of Technological and Biomedical Innovation
Mason Marks joined the Petrie-Flom Center for the 2020-2021 academic year as a joint fellow with the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics focused on legal implications of the Ethics of Technological and Biomedical Innovation. Mason is currently an assistant professor at the Gonzaga University School of Law, where he teaches courses on Health Law, Constitutional Law, Drug Law and Policy, and Law and Artificial Intelligence. He is also an affiliate fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project.
Regulatory Foundations, Ethics, and Law
From 2015 to 2018, the Petrie-Flom Fellow in Research Ethics supported the Center's collaboration with the Regulatory Foundations, Ethics, and Law Program of Harvard Catalyst | The Harvard Clinical and Translational Science Center at Harvard Medical School to promote the ethical conduct of research with human beings.
Academic Fellowship
The Academic Fellowship was a two-year, residential postdoctoral program, active from 2006 to 2016, that was specifically designed to identify, cultivate, and promote promising health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics scholars early in their careers. Fellows were selected from among recent graduates, young academics, and mid-career practitioners who were committed to pursuing publishable research likely to make a significant contribution to the Petrie-Flom Center's focus areas. Our prior fellows are now producing top-rate scholarship at schools around the country, including Harvard, UC Berkeley, BU, UCLA, Cornell, the University of Illinois, the University of Arizona, Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, the University of New Hampshire, and the University of Cambridge.
Fellows devoted their full time to scholarly activities in furtherance of their individual research agendas. In addition, fellows contributed to the intellectual life of the Center and the Harvard Law School community through mentoring students, presenting their research in and attending faculty workshops and seminars, participating in Center events, and blogging at Bill of Health.
Please note that we are not currently soliciting applications.