News, Resources, and Events Tagged "International"
Using Rights to Deepen Democracy: Making Sense of the Road to Legal Abortion in Argentina
This Article situates the 2020 passage of a law legalizing abortion as an inflection point for Argentine democracy and a case study of how rights concepts can be deployed to advance…
“Consideraciones desde argentina sobre el control judicial de las politics publicas sanitarias en el marco de la pandemia provocada por el covid-19,”
Este artículo analiza la respuesta a la pandemia de COVID-19 en Argentina, con un enfoque particular en el control judicial de las políticas públicas…
A Supreme Court review of a contentious patent issue would change the way pharma claims discoveries
In the coming weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court is expected to decide whether to review a wonky, but exceedingly important, debate over patents that has the pharmaceutical industry on…
Un Paso Altrás Para Las Mujeres
Este viernes lo que temíamos desde hace varios meses se hizo realidad: la Suprema Corte de Estados Unidos echó para atrás Roe vs. Wade, la…
Why a growing number of Latin American countries are legalizing abortion
As Americans contemplate living in a country where Roe versus Wade is overturned, a very different story is playing out in many parts of Latin America. In recent years, countries…
The Inexorable Logic of Priority-Setting: Just Four Choices for Courts?
Can public health care rights be reduced to just four choices? Even in countries with different cultures and resources, do “access” rights always depend on blending: (1) individual and…
Handle with Care: The WHO Report on Human Genome Editing
The World Health Organization’s recent Report on Human Genome Editing departs from similar reports from other institutions in that it recognizes that ethical assessments of the technology are…
Presentación del segundo tomo del Tratado Ecofeminista de Derechos Humanos
El pasado 21 de abril, en el Salón Verde, tuvo lugar la presentación del libro Tratado Ecofeminista de Derechos Humanos. Derechos Humanos para el Buen Vivir.…
Health Priority Setting with Alicia Yamin
Alicia Yamin spoke about her work on fostering meaningful citizen participation in health priority setting during a recent CHDS seminar. Yamin is a lecturer on Law and Senior Fellow…
Legal Experts Discuss Health Care Inequity in Latin America at Harvard Law School Panel
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School hosted a virtual panel Tuesday discussing the impact of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in…
Video now available! Health Justice in the Americas: The Role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
View the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #HealthJusticeAm. Watch the fully captioned event recording Read the event coverage: Jonathan A. Cosgrove and Tarah D. Gilles, "Legal Experts Discuss…
Where Democracy Falters, So Do Reproductive Rights
“It’s a slow, iterative process on the ground in building [reproductive rights] up,” said Alicia Ely Yamin, a senior fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health…
Video now available! Exporting Mayhem: Suing Gun Manufacturers in the US to Stop Violence in Mexico
View the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #ExportingMayhem. Watch the fully captioned event recording. Event Description In 2021, the Mexican government filed a ground-breaking suit in federal court in Boston, Massachusetts,…
GHLC Annual Conference: Human Rights and Global Health Policy
Featuring Benjamin Mason Meier (Panel Chair), Stéphanie Dagron, and Alicia Ely Yamin at https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=bZ-80ETExhM. Stéphanie Dagron'…
Coming together: Forging new paths to action for the Sustainable Development Goals
A partnership between the Center for Sustainable Development at Brookings and The Rockefeller Foundation, 17 Rooms is an experimental method for advancing the economic, social, and environmental priorities embedded in the…
Read now! International Pandemic Lawmaking: Conceptual and Practical Issues Report
Between 20 September and 4 November 2021, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, Middlesex University London, and the Max Planck Institute of Comparative Public Law…
Human Rights Obligations of States to not impede the Proposed COVID-19 TRIPS Waive
This opinion applies to the full range of diagnostics, medications, vaccines, therapeutics and other relevant health products required for the containment, prevention and mitigation of COVID-19. In short, it sets…
Editorial: Can a Pandemic Law-Making Exercise Promote Global Health Justice?
Amid the unfolding "moral catastrophe" of COVID-19, and across the entries in this symposium, we see a clamor for any pandemic law-making exercise to promote more justice in global health. …
A Conversation With Key Actors in the Fight for Abortion Legalization in Argentina
In December 2020, first trimester abortion was legalized in Argentina with the passage of Law 27.610. This historic move presents an inflection point for Argentine democracy, as well as a case study…
Video now available! Disruptions of Dignity: COVID-19 and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Latin America
View the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #DisabilityLatAm. Watch the fully captioned event video. Event Description The COVID-19 pandemic battered the Latin American region, and has exacted a disproportionate toll…
Video now available! Engendering Democracy: The Significance of Abortion Legalization in Argentina
Watch the fully captioned event recording. Check out the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #GreenWaveArgentina. Event Description In December 2020, first trimester abortion was legalized in Argentina with the passage of…
Abortion Is No Longer a Crime in Mexico. But Most Women Still Can’t Get One.
The Supreme Court’s decision set a legal precedent for the nation. But applying it to all of Mexico’s states will be a long path, and women…
Quebec moves towards vaccine passport after another spike in COVID cases
Warning the province appears to be entering a fourth wave of the novel coronavirus, Premier François Legault announced Thursday his government is imposing a vaccine passport system to…
Acceso A La Justicia en Latinoamérica: Acceso a la Justicia y Género
Acceso A La Justicia en Latinoamérica: Acceso a la Justicia y Género
El Derecho a la salud en el campo jurídico y sanitario. Hacia la construcción de la justicia sanitaria.
En el sistema jurídico Argentino el derecho a la salud es considerado un Derecho Humano fundamental interdependiente de los derechos económicos, sociales, culturales y ambientales (DESCA),…
Amicus Curiae Brief: Case of Manuela and Family v. El Salvador
Professor Philip Alston and Leah Motzkin have the honor of submitting this Amicus Curiae brief to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (hereinafter also referred to as “the Court…
The Point: What will be the key agendas of the upcoming S. Korea-U.S. summit?
The S. Korea-U.S. summit will take place on May 21st in Washington. The Blue House officially stated that vaccine partnership between the two nations would be one of the…
Empoderamiento jurídico y abogacía comunitaria en Latinoamérica: experiencias de acceso a la justicia desde la comunidad
Esta publicación es producto del esfuerzo de la comunidad de la Red Global de Empoderamiento Jurídico por adentrarse en aprendizajes e intercambios más profundos…
Video now available! Medical Stereotypes: Confronting Racism and Disparities in US Health Care: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Check out the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #MedicalStereotypes. Watch fully captioned video of the event. Event Description Minority racial and ethnic groups in the US have long experienced disparities…
Read more! The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics Announces Advisory Board
February 11, 2021 – The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is excited to announce its new, interdisciplinary Advisory Board. The Advisory Board, which had…
Supported Decision-Making in the United States and Abroad
Jane, a retired attorney, has been diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment caused by Alzheimer’s disease. Jane’s physicians warn that this is a likely precursor to dementia…
‘Immunity passports’ are already here. But they come with warnings.
With miles of barbed wire and electric fencing along its border and open government hostility to migrants, Hungary's borders aren't always the friendliest place for foreigners. That's…
The Stellenbosch Consensus on the International Legal Obligation to Collaborate and Assist in Addressing Pandemics
Full author list: Margherita M. Cinà, Steven J. Hoffman, Gian Luca Burci, Thana Cristina de Campos, Danwood Chirwa, Stéphanie Dagron, Mark Eccleston-Turner, Lisa Forman, Lawrence O. Gostin,…
Reporte: Acceso a la Justicia en Latinoamérica durante la pandemia de COVID-19
Un grupo de instituciones conformado por ACIJ (Argentina), Dejusticia (Colombia), FIMA (Chile), LABA (Brasil), CEJA-OEA, DPLF (regional) y la Red de Empoderamiento Jurídico (global) elaboraron una encuesta de…
Antibiotics in Agriculture: Preventing the Next Pandemic
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, this panel discussion will be held virtually, as an online webinar. To ensure that you will receive access to the livestream and be kept…
Video now available! Detecting Dementia: Technology, Access, and the Law
Online Viewing Check out the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #DetectingDementia. Watch fully captioned video of the event. Event Description Advances in neuroimaging, genetics, and mobile health apps are creating…
Video available now! Constitutional Democracy and the Role of High Courts in Times of Crisis: The Case of Mexico
Couldn't join the webinar? Check out the conversation @PetrieFlom using #RaceandHealth. Watch fully captioned video of the event! Event Description How do modern constitutional democracies preserve the rule of…
Vivir, enfermar y morir en el Sur de Buenos Aires
En esta edición, la revista se enfoca en el bienestar humano y su íntima vinculación con un planeta sano. La conversión y fragmentaci…
Video now available! COVID-19 and the Stakes for Democracy in South America
Couldn't join the webinar? Check out the conversation @PetrieFlom using #COVIDSouthAmerica. Watch fully captioned video of the event! Event Description The COVID-19 pandemic is not just a health crisis,…
Reimagining the Administrative State in Times of Global Health Crisis: An Anatomy of Taiwan’s Regulatory Actions in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Taiwan is standing in the midst of the global novel coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis. At the time of this writing, in Taiwan, 267 people (227 imported and 40 indigenous cases) are infected with this…
Unnecessary and Redundant? Evaluating Canada’s Genetic Non-Discrimination Act, 2017
In 2017, Canada’s Genetic Non-Discrimination Act (GNDA) came into force. The GNDA’s enactment was prompted by concerns about genetic discrimination given the growing amount of genetic data…
Video now available! COVID-19 and the Politics of Reproductive Health: Global Perspectives
Online Resources Couldn't join the webinar? Check out the conversation @PetrieFlom using #GlobalReproHealth. Watch fully captioned video of the event! Event Description The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged health systems…
Podcasts now available! 2020 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Innovation and Protection: The Future of Medical Device Regulation
Notice of Revision In light of developments with COVID-19, we converted our annual conference into a series of podcasts interviewing our contributors.Check out the episodes on This Week in…
CANCELED The International Regulators’ Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Health Care
Notice of Cancelation In light of developments with COVID-19, we have made the decision to cancel the International Regulators' Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Health Care. Conference Description Join…
‘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…
Relationally Speaking: The Implications of Treating Embryos as Property in a Canadian Context
In July 2018, the Ontario Superior Court, in S.H. v D.H., dealt with a dispute between a recently separated couple over a frozen embryo that the couple had created.…
Video now available! Lessons from Germany on Controlling Prescription Costs
Description To control the costs of prescription drugs, Germany combines immediate access to innovative drugs with price controls. The system assesses scientific evidence on the value of new drugs to…
Politically Trump’s Drug Importation Plan Looks Good On Paper, But It’s Unrealistic And Won’t Cut Costs, Critics Say
KHN Morning Briefing: Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizations For one thing, Canada doesn't produce enough drugs, nor does it seem to be on board with…
Eighth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review
At the Petrie-Flom Center's eighth annual Health Law Year in P/Review, leading experts discussed major developments in health law and policy during 2019 and what to watch out for…
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…
Is A Single Payer Health Care System Politically Feasible For The U.S.?
Even among those who agree that a single payer health care system in this country would be more efficient and cost effective, there's another debate. Is it politically feasible? …
Huntington’s disease: Woman who inherited gene sues NHS
A woman who was not informed that her father had a fatal, inherited brain disorder has told the High Court that she would have had an abortion if she'd…
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…
How Germany Averted An Opioid Crisis
HAMBURG, Germany ― In 2016, 10 times as many Americans as Germans died as a result of drug overdoses, mostly opiates. Three times as many Americans as Germans experienced opioid addiction. Even as…
China Effectively Bans Online Sales of E-Cigarettes: The move could effectively shut off one of the biggest markets for an industry that is facing pressure around the world.
SHANGHAI — China issued its starkest warning yet over electronic cigarettes, calling on the industry on Friday to stop selling and advertising the products online. Citing health concerns for minors,…
Data Privacy 3.0: Are We Ready for AI?
Description How can India take advantage of data to achieve its developmental objectives while balancing the need for personal privacy? The recently implemented Account Aggregator framework tries to establish a…
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…
Abortion Battles in Mexico and Beyond: The Role of Law and the Courts
Couldn't join us for the event? Check out some of the speakers' blog posts! Description Battles over sexual and reproductive health and rights, particularly abortion rights, are occurring around…
John and Marylyn Mayo Chair in Health Law, University of Auckland Law School
From the candidate information booklet: Dr John Mayo, one of the Faculty’s long-standing donors, has made a substantial gift to establish an endowed Chair in the area of…
International Association of Bioethics Board Elections
Jean-Cristophe Belisle-Pipon was elected to the board of the International Association of Bioethics. See the full results of the election here.
Book Launch: Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States
Description In June 2019, Cambridge University Press published Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States. This volume, edited by Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar, and…
Research Assistant in Global Health and Rights, Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School
Position Description This 10-hour/week Research Assistant position will support the Petrie-Flom Center's Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights Alicia Yamin, whose work focuses on…
Can Ethical Labeling Make Food Systems Healthy, Sustainable, and Just?: Lessons from a Critical Evaluation of the Democratic Governance Capacity of Animal Welfare Labeling
Description In this talk, Professor Christine Parker critically investigated the role of food labeling and its contestation as a governance pathway towards healthy, sustainable, and fair food systems. Consumers are…
Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy: Considering the Future of U.S. Policy on "Three-Parent IVF"
Couldn't join us? Check out the conversation on Twitter: @PetrieFlom #MRTpanel and some of our speakers' slide presentations below! Learn more about the issues! Check out media coverage supporting…
Book Talk: Global Health Justice and Governance
Description In a world beset by serious and unconscionable health disparities, by dangerous contagions that can circle our globalized planet in hours, and by a bewildering confusion of health actors…
An MD’s Take on Single-Payer Health Care
The ACA’s passage sparked a national dialogue about what type of health care works best for the United States. Having failed to repeal the ACA, the current administration…
Health Law Workshop: John Tingle
Presentation Presentation now available: "Patient Safety Policy Development in the NHS in England" This presentation is based on a chapter in Global Patient Safety: Law, Policy and Practice, edited by…
Drug Pricing Policies in the United States and Globally: From Development to Delivery
Couldn't join us? Check out the conversation on Twitter: @PetrieFlom #drugpricing and some of our speakers' slide presentations below! Description This one-day conference explored the current pharmaceutical pricing landscape…
Health Law Workshop: Christina S. Ho
Presentation Download the Presentation: "Health Impact Assessment: A Negative Right to Health" About the Presenter Professor Christina S. Ho is Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School. She joined the…
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…
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…
In whose best interests: The impact of globalised medicine on on withdrawal of treatment decisions in the UK
From the article: As a feature of the progressive globalisation of medicine, the recent, heavily litigated, trio of cases involving the withdrawal of treatment from infants (Charlie Gard, Isiah Haastrup…
Petrie-Flom Welcomes New Precision Medicine Fellow!
We are excited to announce that Sara Gerke is joining the Petrie-Flom Center's Project on Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and Law (PMAIL) as our Precision Medicine Fellow. As the…
To Tame Prescription Prices, HHS Dips A Toe Into Drug Importation Stream
From the article: This isn’t the first time officials have suggested importing drugs from other countries to find better prices. Bills have been offered in Congress to allow…
Building Capacity for a Global Genome Editing Observatory: Institutional Design
Complete author list: Krishanu Saha, J. Benjamin Hurlbut, Sheila Jasanoff, Aziza Ahmed, Anthony Appiah, Elizabeth Bartholet, Françoise Baylis, Gaymon Bennett, George Church, I. Glenn Cohen, George Daley, Kevin…
Is Trump giving the EU higher drug prices too?
From the article: Through single-payer health care systems the EU is able to regulate consumer costs at reasonable levels. It also makes decisions about what new drugs are worth spending…
S.J.D. candidate awarded scholarship to study health activism from a legal perspective
From the article: Maayan Sudai, an S.J.D. candidate at Harvard Law School, has been awarded a prestigious scholarship from Israel’s Dan David Foundation to support her…
Vaccine against Meningitis: Quebec Pays Twice As Much As United Kingdom
From the article: Quebec has agreed to pay twice as much as the United Kingdom for a new vaccine against meningitis, the effectiveness of which seemed uncertain. The disclosure of…
Healthcare Accreditation Driving Patient Excellence in Europe
From the article: In the business of medical travel, quality drives the market and the quality of healthcare a hospital or healthcare organization provides is often validated by its accreditation…
Surgery Lit by Cellphone: Togo Doctors Strike Over Deplorable Hospitals
From the article: I. Glenn Cohen, a professor at Harvard Law School and an expert on health law and bioethics, said medical ethicists generally agree that the potential benefits of…
Enabling Disability Rights in the U.S. and around the World
Professor Michael Stein is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability. An internationally acclaimed expert on disability law and policy, Stein participated in the…
Rooting Out Health Care Fraud: Tales from the Front Line: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium
Description By some measures, as much as 5% of health care spending can be linked to fraud, and dangerous practices from for-profit medical product companies have led to widespread negative health…
Preventing Mitochondrial Disease: A Path Forward
Abstract: In a possible first, the heritable transmission of a fatal mitochondrial DNA disease (Leigh syndrome) may have been prevented by replacing the mutation-bearing mitochondria of oocytes with donated mutation-free…
Petrie-Flom Center launches Project on Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School and the Center for Advanced Studies in Biomedical Innovation Law (CeBIL) at the University of Copenhagen…
Apply now! Call for Applications: Research Fellow for Diagnostic Digital Home Health, Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School
Overview The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School is hiring a full-time post-doctoral fellow to support its newly launched Diagnostic Digital Home Health…
The Petrie-Flom Center Launches New Project: Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law (PMAIL)
The Project on Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law will seek to better understand the frontiers of big data in health care diagnostics, through interdisciplinary analysis of important health…
India’s Hospitals Are Filling Up With Desperate Americans
From the article: Medical tourism thus presents both opportunities and risks. At its best, the industry can help India grow its health care system, using the revenues generated from international…
Sanofi scandal in the Philippines could spread dangerous mistrust of vaccines
From the article: Unfortunately, there are indications that the company, which could use a blockbuster product, should have taken its corporate foot off the gas pedal. And to restore confidence…
The Debate over Postmortem Sperm Retrieval of Fallen Soldiers
This essay is based in part on the workshop the Petrie-Flom Center hosted on October 23, 2017, in which then-Visiting Scholar Avishalom Westreich presented his research-in-progress to a diverse group of religious,…
Bernie Sanders Tells Big Pharma: Stop Making Americans Pay Twice
[...] Other experts told IBT federal support of drug development goes well beyond just funding research. “It’s not so much the money we are actually spending through NIH.…