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Student Fellowship Alumna2008 – 2009 Heidi Williams is Class of 1957 Career Development Assistant Professor in the MIT Department of Economics. In 2015, she was named a MacArthur Fellow for her work “unraveling the causes and consequences of innovation in health care markets.”  During her fellowship year at the Petrie-Flom Center, Heidi completed the project “Estimating Marginal Returns to Medical…

Student Fellow Alumna2006 – 2007 Sarah Weston studied the promise and challenges of state-based health care reform taking into account past and potential future health reforms in Oregon, and asked whether freeing states from federal regulation to allow for more radical experimentation would be possible and/or wise. 

Student Fellow Alumna2009 – 2010 Sally Wang is a joint JD/MPH student at Harvard Law School and Harvard School of Public Health. Her areas of research interest focus primarily on matters of regulation but span a range of questions including how health policy and regulation affect the delivery of essential medicines, the elimination of systematic inefficiencies,…

Student Fellow Alumnus2006 – 2007 Christopher Walsh studied the possibilities of neural augmentation through electronics or genetic engineering. His research investigated appropriate intellectual property policy regarding such devices and examined additional ethical and legal issues surrounding such enhancement. 

Student Fellow Alumnus2012 – 2013 Dan Vorhaus is an attorney with Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson. His practice includes providing corporate, transactional and strategic advice to genomics and biotechnology researchers, entrepreneurs, companies and investors.

Student Fellow Alumnus2013 – 2014 Julián Urrutia is a PhD candidate in Health Policy, Ethics Concentration, at Harvard University. He holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. In 2009, Julián enrolled in the Medical School of the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. Julian’s interests lie in the intersection…

Student Fellow Alumnus2016-2017 During his fellowship, Shailin Thomas was a second year law student in a joint MD/JD program between Harvard Law School and the New York University School of Medicine. He received a B.S. from Yale University, where he studied cognitive neuroscience—exploring the anatomy and physiology behind social phenomena. His interests lie at the intersection of…

James Toomey graduated from Harvard Law School with a JD in 2019. As a student fellow during the 2018-2019 academic year, he wrote a paper entitled “How to End Our Stories: Dementia, Narrative Personal Identity and Seniors’ Theories of Legal Capacity.” He argued from analysis of interviews and an online survey of seniors that a concept of…

Student Fellow Alumna2009 – 2010 Ariane Tschumi is a joint JD/MPH student at Harvard Law School and Harvard School of Public Health focusing on issues of global health. Her research interests lie in health care delivery, early childhood and preventable diseases, maternal mortality, and the use of litigation as a strategy for realizing the right to…

Student Fellow Alumna2014 – 2015 Lauren A. Taylor, MDiv, MPH will enter the doctoral program in Health Policy and Management at Harvard University in fall 2015. Formerly, she was a Presidential Scholar and Master of Divinity Candidate at Harvard Divinity School and a joint BA/MPH degree candidate at Yale. For several years before coming to Harvard, Lauren worked…