News, Resources, and Events Tagged "Infectious Diseases"
Ethical Payment to Participants in Human Infection Challenge Studies, with a Focus on SARS-CoV-2: Report and Recommendations
Complete author list: Holly Fernandez Lynch, Thomas Darton, Emily Largent, Jae Levy, Frank McCormick, Ubaka Ogbogu, Ruth Payne, Alvin E. Roth, Akilah Jefferson Shah, Thomas Smiley To prepare for potential…
Data and COVID-19
Event Description John Snow famously used data to trace the source of a cholera outbreak, helping found the field of epidemiology. Data will play just as crucial a role in…
Indemnifying precaution: economic insights for regulation of a highly infectious disease
Economic insights are powerful for understanding the challenge of managing a highly infectious disease, such as COVID-19, through behavioral precautions including social distancing. One problem is a form of moral…
Ethical Dilemmas in Mask and Equipment Shortages: Health Care During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Online Viewing Fully captioned video of the panel discussion and panelists' slide presentations below! Join the conversation on Twitter: @PetrieFlom #PPEethics! Event Description Personal protective equipment or PPE has been…
‘Medical debt is a violation of human rights’: At a Petrie-Flom event on medical debt, health experts and journalists raise serious concerns about the affordability of testing and hospital care
Medical debt “totally traumatizes people” and “discourages people from going anywhere near the health care system,” said Robert Yates, director of the Global Health Programme and…
Emergency statutes must be passed to protect doctors and hospitals from potential lawsuits, say Harvard Law professors
State governments must enact emergency immunity statutes to protect doctors and hospitals from potential lawsuits and criminal prosecution during the COVID-19 pandemic, Harvard Law Professors I. Glenn Cohen ’03 and…
Viewpoint: Potential Legal Liability for Withdrawing or Withholding Ventilators During COVID-19: Assessing the Risks and Identifying Needed Reforms
With an anticipated shortage of ventilators for patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), hospitals, physicians, and nurses may have to make an unprecedented decision: should they withdraw or withhold ventilators from…
Protect the Doctors and Nurses Who Are Protecting Us: They need immunity from lawsuits and prosecution for triage decisions.
[...] triage protocols are essential to ensuring that we make it through the impending crisis with the fewest possible deaths. But if these public-health strategies are to succeed, doctors must be…
Protecting rights in a global crisis: HLS scholars raise important legal and ethical questions about health care delivery and the enactment of extraordinary public health measures
Fifty years from now, will emergency decisions made today to combat the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic be remembered as reprehensible human rights violations, comparable to the internment of Japanese…
Securing Health, Justice, and Democracy against the COVID-19 Threat
Our federal government and all ofour state governments are now fully engaged in fighting a national emergency of historic proportions. The scale of the emergency is roughly equivalent to World…
COVID-19: Latest News On The Coronavirus Outbreak
The latest in-depth coverage of the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, from free resource Kaiser Health News.
Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch on Twitter
Check out Tweets from Marc Lipsitch, Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health, who curates…
Infectious Diseases Reporter Helen Branswell on Twitter
Check out Tweets from STAT's infectious diseases and global health reporter Helen Branswell, who curates some of the best sources on COVID-19 news and science. Hear more from Helen…
As Second U.S. Death Reported Out Of Washington Nursing Facility, Fears Mount For Vulnerable Elderly Population
KHN Morning Briefing: Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations Authorities in the Seattle area reported four new cases Sunday night. Researchers say that it's likely the…
Do not violate the International Health Regulations during the COVID-19 outbreak
The International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR) govern how 196 countries and WHO collectively address the global spread of disease and avoid unnecessary interference with international traffic and trade. Article 43 of this legally…
Philadelphia hepatitis data exposure posed ‘no risk to confidentiality’ because of Inquirer notification, city says
From the article: The records in question were specific and intimate. One of the first few positive tests listed in the data set linked a woman’s name, race…
Some Big Health Care Policy Changes Are Hiding In The Federal Spending Package
Congress is set to pass a $1.4 trillion spending package this week, which President Trump has said he'll sign. The legislation includes policy changes and funding increases that public health…
Samoa Arrests Anti-Vaccination Activist As Measles Death Toll Rises
Samoan authorities have arrested a prominent anti-vaccination activist amid an outbreak that has killed at least 63 people, most of them children. Edwin Tamasese has been charged with "incitement against a…
Government To Provide PrEP To Uninsured Americans To Further Its Goal Of Eradicating HIV Epidemic
KHN Morning Briefing: Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations Some American cities with high HIV rates already have programs that pay the costs of PrEP for the…
Germany Mandates Measles Vaccine: All children attending preschool or higher in the country must be immunized, with fines for parents who do not comply, under a law that is to take effect next spring.
BERLIN — Parents in Germany must vaccinate their children against measles or face fines of several thousand euros under a law passed on Thursday that aims to stop the spread…
California To Make HIV Prevention Drugs Available Without A Prescription
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill on Monday that will make HIV-prevention drugs available without a prescription. It allows pharmacists to dispense both PrEP, or preexposure prophylaxis, and PEP,…
15+ Years of PEPFAR: How U.S. Action on HIV/AIDS Has Changed Global Health
Couldn't join us for the event? Check out some of the speakers' slide presentations and blog posts! Description In May 2003, the U.S. Congress passed bipartisan legislation authorizing a…
Simulation and Deliberation to Prepare for Clinical Trials in Infectious Disease Emergencies: Digital Health @ Harvard Series
Description Infectious disease emergencies are opportunities to test the efficacy of newly developed interventions (e.g. drugs, vaccines and treatment regimens), yet they raise many intertwined challenges of politics, logistics,…
Achieving Equitable Access to Vaccines: From Policies to Provisions
Description In order to achieve the objectives of global health organization policies those policies must be translated into actionable provisions and agreements. The Global Healthcare Innovation Alliance Accelerator endeavors to…
Ethical Investment in Global Public Health Security: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Description Health emergencies around the world in recent years have included SARS, MERS, Ebola, and influenza. These epidemics have caused substantial mortality, destabilized governments, and served as significant risks to…
Preventing Epidemics in a Connected World: Part of Outbreak Week at Harvard University
Description Led by the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI), Outbreak Week was a University-wide effort to commemorate the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people around the globe. As…
Vaccines for Outbreaks in the Modern World: Part of Outbreak Week at Harvard University
Description Led by HGHI, Outbreak Week was a University-wide effort to commemorate the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people around the globe. Featuring keynotes from Michael Ryan, Deputy…
Media in the Age of Contagions: Part of Outbreak Week at Harvard University
Description Led by HGHI, Outbreak Week was a University-wide effort to commemorate the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed more than 50 million people around the globe. At this symposium on "Media in…
HIV Criminalization: Creating a Viral Underclass in the Law
Description HLS Lambda hosted this lecture on HIV stigma, criminalization, and activism. Sean Strub is a longtime HIV survivor, founder of POZ magazine, director of the Sero Project, and an…
The Conduct of Clinical Trials of Treatments during Public Health Emergencies: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Couldn't join us for the event? Check out the panelists' slide presentations below! Description In the past several years, the United States has struggled to respond to viral outbreaks,…
Punishing Disease: HIV and the Criminalization of Sickness
Couldn't join us for the event? Check out the video of the event here! Please join us for a talk with Trevor Hoppe on his book, Punishing Disease: HIV…
Health Law Workshop: Aziza Ahmed
Presentation Topic: "'Dead But Not Disabled': A Feminist Legal Struggle for Recognition" This paper is not available for download. To request a copy in preparation for the workshop, please contact…
Health Law Workshop: Leo Beletsky
Presentation Download the presentation: "America’s Favorite Antidote: Murder-By-Overdose in the Age of the Opioid Epidemic" About the Presenter Leo Beletsky is Associate Professor of Law and Health Sciences…
Digital Health @ Harvard Brown Bag Lunch Series: Using Mobile Phone Data to Map Migration and Disease: Politics, Privacy, and Public Health
The Digital Health @ Harvard brown bag lunch series features speakers from Harvard as well as collaborators and colleagues from other institutions who research the intersection between health and digital technology.…
UPCOMING! Annual Health Law Conference: Between Complacency & Panic: Legal, Ethical and Policy Responses to Emerging Infectious Diseases
From the event: Emerging infectious diseases (EIDs) such as Ebola and the Zika virus pose potentially grave threats to human health. They can also incite overreations that lead to the…
Digital Health @ Harvard Brown Bag Lunch Series: Public Health Echo Chambers in a Time of Mistrust and Misinformation
The Digital Health @ Harvard brown bag lunch series features speakers from Harvard as well as collaborators and colleagues from other institutions who research the intersection between health and digital technology.…
Lawmakers urge US Army not to issue exclusive license to Sanofi for a Zika vaccine
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Vaccines and Airline Travel:: A Federal Role to Protect the Public Health
Abstract: This Article explores two ways in which airline travel is an important vector for the spread of infectious disease, and argues that airlines have market-based and liability-based reasons to…
The Summer Olympics And The Zika Virus — Is It Safe To Hold The Games In Brazil?
Olympic athletes going to Rio de Janeiro might come home with more than just a medal. Some public health officials are concerned about athletes, tourists and members of the media…
150 experts say Olympics must be moved or postponed because of Zika: Petrie-Flom Center Directors join bioethicists, scientists, and others in an open letter to WHO Director-General
More than 100 prominent physicians, bioethicists and scientists from around the world posted a letter Friday urging WHO Director-General Margaret Chan to exert pressure on Olympic authorities to move the Olympics…
Prizing Insurance: Prescription Drug Insurance as Innovation Incentive,: New Article from Academic Fellow Rachel E. Sachs
Abstract: A problem perennially facing scholars of both intellectual property and health law is the need to incentivize appropriately the development of new pharmaceuticals. Although physicians have an arsenal of…
The National Security Implications of the Genetics Revolution
Couldn't attend the event? Check out some of our speakers' slide presentations! Panelists Jamie Metzl, JD '97, Senior Fellow for Technology and National Security of the Atlantic Council. He has…
Negotiating for Health: The Role of Negotiation and Dispute Resolution in Healthcare
Harvard Negotiation Law Review Presents its 21st Annual Symposium Agenda Overview Keynote Address: Dr. Leonard Marcus, Founding Director of the Program for Health Care Negotiation and Conflict Resolution at the…
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…
Petrie-Flom Event Review: An opening for measles: Anti-vaccination trend a growing concern
[...] The recent California outbreak has reignited debates about balancing the public welfare while safeguarding civil liberties. A panel of experts convened atHarvard Law School on Wednesday to discuss the return…
Petrie-Flom Event Review:: Experts Talk Vaccine Opt-Out Parameters
There is a delicate balance between preserving individual rights and protecting public health when it comes to vaccines, experts argued at a panel discussion at Harvard Law School on Wednesday. [...] …
Measles, Vaccines, and Protecting Public Health
Couldn't join us? Watch the full event online! For more on this event, check out the write-ups in the Harvard Gazette (February 27, 2015) and the Harvard Crimson (February 26, 2015)! The measles…
Academic Fellow Rachel Sachs Guest Lecturing in Reading Group at Harvard Law School
Petrie-Flom Academic Fellow Rachel E. Sachs will be a regular guest lecturer in a reading group at Harvard Law School, co-taught by with Professors Terry Fisher and Mark Wu in…
I. Glenn Cohen discusses the Ebola crisis
Harvard Law professor and medical ethics expert talks about how the Ebola crisis is just one example of how Americans and other travelers are at risk for deadly disease when…