Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights Faculty Steering Committee Member, Harvard Global Health InstituteFaculty Steering Committee Member, Andes and Southern Cone Program, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American StudiesFaculty Affiliate, Center for International DevelopmentFaculty Affiliate, Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard TH Chan School of Public HealthFaculty Affiliate, Department of Global Health and Social…
Charles Tilford McCormick Professor of Law, University of Texas, School of Law Academic Fellow Alumnus2009-2011 Melissa F. Wasserman is the Charles Tilford McCormick Professor of Law at the University of Texas, School of Law. She was previously Associate Professor of Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Melissa’s research focuses on the institutional design of innovation policy, with…
Assistant Professor, University of California, Berkeley Law School Academic Fellow Alumnus2006-2009 Talha Syed was a member of the inaugural cohort of Petrie-Flom Academic Fellows. He was appointed to the faculty of the U.C. Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law in 2009. His research interests were most broadly in legal theory and political philosophy, and his primary area…
Academic Fellow Alumnus Mark S. Stein is the author of Distributive Justice and Disability: Utilitarianism against Egalitarianism (Yale University Press, 2006), which philosopher Peter Singer has praised as a book that “transforms the debate about utilitarianism and egalitarianism.” Mark received his J.D. from Michigan Law School, and practiced law for several years before earning a Ph.D. in political…
Senior Lecturer, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Academic Fellow Alumnus Dr. Jeffrey Skopek is a University of Cambridge Senior Lecturer (i.e., Associate Professor with tenure) in the Faculty of Law and the Deputy Director of the Centre for Law, Medicine and Life Sciences. His scholarship focuses on advances in the biosciences that destabilize categories and concepts that play a foundational role in…
Research Fellow, Digital Home Health 2021 – 2023 David A. Simon, Ph.D., J.D., LL.M., 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…
Professor of Law, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Law Edmond J. Safra/Petrie-Flom Centers Joint Fellow-in-Residence Alumnus 2019-2020 Jacob S. Sherkow is a Professor of Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Law. Sherkow’s research focuses on how scientific developments, especially in the biosciences, affect patent law, regulation, and bioethics. He is the…
Health Economist, Data For Decisions, LLC Academic Fellow Alumnus2007-2009 J.P. Sevilla holds a JD from George Mason School of Law and a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. He was an Academic Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center from 2007 to 2009. During his fellowship, he researched theories of well-being and the relationship between age and the value of statistical lives. In addition to…
Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis School of Law Academic Fellow Alumnus2014-2016 Rachel E. Sachs is an Associate Professor at the Washington University in St. Louis School of Law. Rachel’s primary research interests lie at the intersection of patent law and health law, with a particular focus on problems of innovation and access and…
Joint Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics and the Petrie-Flom Center Fellow-in-Residence2022-2023 Elizabeth Chloe Romanis is a Fellow-in-Residence at the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics and the Petrie-Flom Center for 2022-2023. She is an Assistant Professor of Biolaw at Durham University, UK. Chloe does research in healthcare law and bioethics with a particular interest in reproduction and…
