News, Resources, and Events Tagged "Environment"
Inside A Boston OR, Surgery Shows Hospital’s Steps To Reduce Its Carbon Footprint
[...] The health care sector produces 10% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. Hospitals are 36% of that. And operating rooms are their hot spots for emissions, waste and energy…
‘Dump it down the drain’: How contaminants from prescription-drug factories pollute waterways
[...] “You just go dump it down the drain,” said the employee who was laid off in 2018. “It always bothered me pouring pharmaceuticals down the drain,” said…
E.P.A. to Limit Science Used to Write Public Health Rules
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government can use to determine public health regulations, overriding protests from scientists and…
If Power Outages Are California’s New Normal, What About Home Medical Needs?
[...] “That is the real travesty of this PG&E plan,” said Sandy Jay, a nurse practitioner at Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital in Sonoma County, about 130 miles southwest…
Research Associate (Health Care), The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Harvard Business School
Duties & Responsibilities The Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness (www.isc.hbs.edu) is a joint Institute of Harvard University and Harvard Business School, dedicated to supporting and extending the…
Clinical Fellow, Environmental Law & Policy Clinic, Harvard Law School
Clinical Fellow, Environmental Law & Policy Clinic Harvard Law School 43890BR Duties & Responsibilities The Emmett Environmental Law & Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School is accepting applications for…
HLS in the World: New Technologies, New Dilemmas: Part of the HLS200 Bicentennial Celebration
This event was part of the HLS in the World sessions of HLS │200, a bicentennial summit of academic sessions and programs devoted to legal issues of pressing importance. Panel Description …
Fourth Annual Harvard-UCLA Food Law and Policy Conference: Food Innovation and the Law: Navigating the Next Frontier
The Food Law Lab at Harvard Law School and the Resnick Program for Food Law & Policy at UCLA School of Law hosted the 4th Annual Harvard-UCLA Food Law and…
Tenure Track or Tenured Professor For a New Initiative in Practical Ethics, University of California, San Diego
The University of California, San Diego invites applications from outstanding candidates for up to four separate searches (totaling up to eight positions) for TENURE TRACK or TENURED FACULTY POSITIONS in…
2015 Annual Conference: Law, Religion, and Health in America
Join the conversation on Twitter! @PetrieFlom #lawreligionhealth And check out many of the speakers' slide presentations below! Conference Description Religion and medicine have historically gone hand in hand, but increasingly…
Identified Versus Statistical Lives - Book talk and discussion
The essays in Identified versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Approach address the identified lives effect, namely, the greater human proclivity to assist persons and groups identified as at high risk…
Just Food?: Forum on Justice in the Food System
A conference exploring the intersections between social, economic, and environmental justice in the food system. Just Food? explored the legal, policy, health, and environmental aspects of modern domestic and international…
Book Launch: Identified versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Approach
Identified versus Statistical Lives: An Interdisciplinary Approach is an edited volume that grew out of the 2012 conference "Identified versus Statistical Lives: Ethics and Public Policy," cosponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center,…
Harvard Food+ Research Symposium
The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs was pleased to announce the first Harvard Research Symposium on the Nexus of Food, Agriculture, Environment, Health, and Society (or as we call it,…
Academic Fellow Jeffrey Skopek to Join Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge
We are pleased to announce that Petrie-Flom Academic Fellow Jeffrey Skopek will be joining the law faculty of the University of Cambridge in the fall. At Cambridge, Jeff will continue…
UCLA, Harvard Law Schools launch joint annual conference on food law and policy
From the article: UCLA School of Law and Harvard Law School have announced the inauguration of the UCLA-Harvard Food Law and Policy Conference, a joint annual conference that will focus…
New Directions for Food Safety: The Food Safety Modernization Act and Beyond
Sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center; the Food Law and Policy Clinic (a division of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation); the Food Law Lab; and the Harvard Food…
Harvard Law School to Host Conference on Food Safety Law
The Petrie-Flom Center's upcoming conference "New Directions for Food Safety: The Food Safety Modernization Act and Beyond," which will be held at Harvard Law School on Friday, February 21, 2014, was…
Ethics and Animals: Where Are We Now?: A lecture by Peter Singer
In this lecture by Professor Peter Singer, he argued that we owe animals equal consideration of interests. He elaborated on what that means and what changes would be required to…