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2025 Annual Conference: Law, Health Care, and the Aging Brain and Body
Our 2025 annual conference called on participants to imagine how law, public policy, and health care entities can create systems that promote the well-being of older adults and their families in a world of enhanced longevity, and to suggest what lessons can be drawn from emerging scientific understandings of the aging brain and body.
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From Words to Action: Making the Pandemic Agreement Work
The recent adoption of a Pandemic Agreement by the World Health Organization (WHO) member states has been widely hailed as a historic achievement for global health governance and security.
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Medicaid Cuts Will Endanger a Lifeline for Persons with Intellectual Disabilities’ Community Integration, Empowerment, and More
In the United States, more persons with intellectual disabilities are living in the community than ever before. This was not always the case.
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Ozempic, Celebrities, and TikTok: A Regulatory Nightmare Waiting to Happen?
In the neon-lit world of TikTok, Ozempic has become the worst-kept “secret” in Hollywood and on social media. Celebrities gush about it, TikTokers brag about dramatic weight loss, and suddenly a diabetes drug is a pop culture phenomenon.
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University of Copenhagen Assumes Stewardship of the Patent Pledge Database
This summer, the Center for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law (CeBIL) at University of Copenhagen assumed stewardship and maintenance of the Patent Pledge Database created by Professor Jorge Contreras.
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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.
