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PFC Featured in The Practice Magazine
The January/February issue of The Practice magazine, from the HLS Center on the Legal Profession, includes a roundtable discussion with I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar, and Susannah Baruch.
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Voting Rights in Jeopardy: Implications for Health Care Disparities
Health care is consistently ranked among the top concerns of the nation’s voters. A special issue for health care voters is electing candidates who are committed to making high-quality health care accessible and affordable to all.
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The Right to Care and Disability in Latin America
On Aug. 7, 2025, with Advisory Opinion OC-31/25, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights took a decisive step by becoming the first international court to recognize the human right to care as an autonomous right.
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Regulating Psilocybin as Food, Not Drugs
Psilocybin should be regulated under food law rather than drug law. Doing so would serve public health, individual autonomy, and regulatory coherence.
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It’s Time to Safeguard Genomic Data
On Jan. 24, 2026, the New York Times reported that DNA sequences contributed by children and families to support a federal effort to understand adolescent brain development were later co-opted by other researchers and used to publish “race science” claims about intelligence.
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Fireside Chat: I. Glenn Cohen and Rochelle Walensky
Professor Glenn Cohen, Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School interviews Dr. Rochelle Walensky, 19th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Senior Academic Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center. They discuss Dr. Walensky’s career as an infectious disease clinician focused on HIV/AIDS, her experience leading the CDC during COVID-19, and her reflections on public health infrastructure in the United States and internationally.
