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Using Rights to Deepen Democracy: Making Sense of the Road to Legal Abortion in Argentina

Alicia Ely Yamin and Agustina Ramón Michel
Fordham International Law Journal

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…

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Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights in Public Health Emergencies

International Commission of Jurists and Global Health Law Consortium, including Alicia Ely Yamin
Global Health Law Consortium, International Commission of Jurists, and Brocher Foundation

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“Consideraciones desde argentina sobre el control judicial de las politics publicas sanitarias en el marco de la pandemia provocada por el covid-19,”

María Natalia Echegoyemberry
Vacunas Paralegente

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…

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A Supreme Court review of a contentious patent issue would change the way pharma claims discoveries

Ed Silverman, featuring Jacob Sherkow (Former Fellow-in-Residence)
STAT

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…

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Un Paso Altrás Para Las Mujeres

Alma Beltrán y Puga
La Silla

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…

The Right to Health as a Tool of Social Control: Compulsory Treatment Orders by Courts in Brazil

Luciano Bottini Filho (Affiliated Researcher)
Health and Human Rights Journal

Brazilian citizens have a constitutional right to health. This right has also been a powerful instrument in the judicial enforcement of drug dependence treatment in Brazil. This study reviews a…

Why a growing number of Latin American countries are legalizing abortion

Featuring Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights)
PBS NewsHour

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…

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The Inexorable Logic of Priority-Setting: Just Four Choices for Courts?

Chris Newdick, Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights), Danielle Da Costa Leite Borges, and Gaurav Mukherjee
International Society for Priorities in Health

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…

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Handle with Care: The WHO Report on Human Genome Editing

I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director), Jacob S. Sherkow, and Eli Y. Adashi
Hastings Center Report

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

Featuring María Natalia Echegoyemberry (Affiliated Researcher)
Universidad de Buenos Aires Noticias

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.…

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Health Priority Setting with Alicia Yamin

Featuring Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights)
Center for Health Decision Science News

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…

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Legal Experts Discuss Health Care Inequity in Latin America at Harvard Law School Panel

Jonathan A. Cosgrove and Tarah D. Gilles, featuring Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights)
The Harvard Crimson

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…

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Video now available! Health Justice in the Americas: The Role of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

April 05, 2022
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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…

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Where Democracy Falters, So Do Reproductive Rights

Hanna Kozlowska, featuring Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights)
ForeignPolicy

“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…

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Video now available! Exporting Mayhem: Suing Gun Manufacturers in the US to Stop Violence in Mexico

February 17, 2022
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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,…

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Video now available! Countering COVID-19 Misinformation: The Impact on Health Care Providers

February 02, 2022
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Join the conversation and submit questions on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #AgainstMisinfo. Watch the fully captioned event video. Event Description The COVID-19 pandemic has sparked debates about a number of public…

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GHLC Annual Conference: Human Rights and Global Health Policy

Benjamin Mason Meier, Stéphanie Dagron, and Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights)
Global Health Law Consortium

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'…

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Coming together: Forging new paths to action for the Sustainable Development Goals

17 Rooms, featuring Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights)
Brookings

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…

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Read now! International Pandemic Lawmaking: Conceptual and Practical Issues Report

Edited by Alicia Ely Yamin, Joelle Grogan, and Pedro Villarreal

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…

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Human Rights Obligations of States to not impede the Proposed COVID-19 TRIPS Waive

International Commission of Jurists Expert Legal Opinion co-signed by Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights)
International Commission of Jurists

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…

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Editorial: Can a Pandemic Law-Making Exercise Promote Global Health Justice?

Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights), Joelle Grogan, and Pedro A. Villarreal
Verfassungsblog

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. …

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A Conversation With Key Actors in the Fight for Abortion Legalization in Argentina

Mazelle Etessami, featuring Alicia Ely Yamin (Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights)
The Harvard Law Record

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…

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Video now available! Disruptions of Dignity: COVID-19 and the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Latin America

October 08, 2021
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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…

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Video now available! Engendering Democracy: The Significance of Abortion Legalization in Argentina

September 14, 2021
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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.

Natalie Kitroeff and Oscar Lopez
The New York Times

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…

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Quebec moves towards vaccine passport after another spike in COVID cases

Sidhartha Banerjee, featuring I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Global News

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

Featuring María Natalia Echegoyemberry (Affiliated Researcher)
Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia

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.

María Natalia Echegoyemberry (Affiliated Researcher)
Revista Debate Público Reflexión de Trabajo Social

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),…

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Amicus Curiae Brief: Case of Manuela and Family v. El Salvador

Center for Human Rights and Global Justice co-signed by Alicia Yamin (Senior Fellow Global Health and RIghts)
Inter-American Court of Human Rights

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…

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The Point: What will be the key agendas of the upcoming S. Korea-U.S. summit?

Interviewing W. Nicholson Price II (Former Academic Fellow)
Arirang Issue

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

María Natalia Echegoyemberry (Affiliated Researcher) et al.
NAMATI

Esta publicación es producto del esfuerzo de la comunidad de la Red Global de Empoderamiento Jurídico por adentrarse en aprendizajes e intercambios más profundos…

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Video now available! Medical Stereotypes: Confronting Racism and Disparities in US Health Care: A Health Policy and Bioethics Consortium

February 12, 2021
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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…

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Read more! The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics Announces Advisory Board

Petrie-Flom Center

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…

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Supported Decision-Making in the United States and Abroad

Emily Largent (Former Student Fellow) and Andrew Peterson
Journal of Health Care Law & Policy

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…

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‘Immunity passports’ are already here. But they come with warnings.

Scott McLean and Florence Davey-Attlee, featuring Carmel Shachar (Executive Director)
CNN

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…

Reporte: Acceso a la Justicia en Latinoamérica durante la pandemia de COVID-19

Featuring María Natalia Echegoyemberry (Affiliated Researcher)
Asociación Civil por la Igualdad y la Justicia

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…

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Video now available! Enforcing Constitutional Commitments to Health and Social Equality in Kenya: A Conversation with Justice Mumbi Ngugi

November 19, 2020
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Check out the conversation on Twitter @PetrieFlom using #HealthJusticeKenya. Watch fully captioned video of the event. Event Description Mumbi Ngugi is a Judge of the High Court of Kenya who…

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Antibiotics in Agriculture: Preventing the Next Pandemic

November 18, 2020

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…

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Video now available! Detecting Dementia: Technology, Access, and the Law

November 16, 2020
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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…

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Video available now! Constitutional Democracy and the Role of High Courts in Times of Crisis: The Case of Mexico

October 23, 2020
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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…

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Establishing Good Practice for Human Rights-Based Approaches to Mental Health Care and Psychosocial Support in Kenya

Faraaz Mahomed, Jacqueline Bhabha, Michael Ashley Stein (Affiliated Faculty), and Dainius Pūras
Health and Human Rights Journal

A human rights-based approach (HRBA) to health has long been seen as an important way in which to address public health needs in a manner that is equitable and conducive…

Vivir, enfermar y morir en el Sur de Buenos Aires

María Natalia Echegoyemberry (Affiliated Researcher)
FARN

En esta edición, la revista se enfoca en el bienestar humano y su íntima vinculación con un planeta sano. La conversión y fragmentaci…

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Video now available! COVID-19 and the Stakes for Democracy in South America

September 17, 2020
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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,…

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Reimagining the Administrative State in Times of Global Health Crisis: An Anatomy of Taiwan’s Regulatory Actions in Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ching-Fu Lin (Student Fellow Alumnus), Chien-Huei Wu and Chuan-Feng Wu
European Journal of Risk Regulation

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…

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Unnecessary and Redundant? Evaluating Canada’s Genetic Non-Discrimination Act, 2017

Kathleen Hammond (Former Visiting Researcher)
SSRN

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…

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Video now available! COVID-19 and the Politics of Reproductive Health: Global Perspectives

July 29, 2020
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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…

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Podcasts now available! 2020 Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: Innovation and Protection: The Future of Medical Device Regulation

May 8, 2020

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…

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CANCELED The International Regulators’ Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Health Care

CANCELED

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…

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‘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

Chloe Reichel (Communications Associate)
Harvard Law Today

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…

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Relationally Speaking: The Implications of Treating Embryos as Property in a Canadian Context

Kathleen Hammond (Former Visiting Researcher)
SSRN

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.…

The Coronavirus Goes Global: The illness is on every continent except Antarctica, with more new cases outside China than within. But how threatening is the outbreak really?

Hosted by Michael Barbaro, interviewing Donald G. McNeil Jr.
"The Daily," from the New York Times

What began as a public health crisis in China is well on the way to becoming a pandemic. And while there is a lot of news about the coronavirus, there…

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Video now available! Lessons from Germany on Controlling Prescription Costs

February 25, 2020
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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…

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Book Talk: When Misfortune Becomes Injustice: Evolving Human Rights Struggles for Health and Social Equality

February 7, 2020
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Description When Misfortune Becomes Injustice (Stanford University Press, February 2020) surveys the progress and challenges faced in deploying human rights to advance health and social equality over the last thirty years,…

WHO Declares Coronavirus Outbreak A Global Emergency, But Reiterates Confidence In Chinese Officials

Kaiser Health News

KHN Morning Briefing: Summaries of health policy coverage from major news organizationsWHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the declaration comes now because of fears that the coronavirus may reach countries…

Politically Trump’s Drug Importation Plan Looks Good On Paper, But It’s Unrealistic And Won’t Cut Costs, Critics Say

Kaiser Health News

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…

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Eighth Annual Health Law Year in P/Review

December 6, 2019
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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

Merrit Kennedy
NPR

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.?

Bob Oakes
WBUR (NPR Boston)

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

Fergus Walsh
BBC News

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.

Melissa Eddy
New York Times

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

Shefali Luthra
Kaiser Health News

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.

Elsie Chen and Alexandra Stevenson
New York Times

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,…

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Data Privacy 3.0: Are We Ready for AI?

October 8, 2019

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…

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15+ Years of PEPFAR: How U.S. Action on HIV/AIDS Has Changed Global Health

October 7, 2019
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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…

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Abortion Battles in Mexico and Beyond: The Role of Law and the Courts

October 4, 2019
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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

Deadline: October 14, 2019
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Dr. Kathrin Soehnel

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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…

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International Association of Bioethics Board Elections

by IAB, electing Jean-Cristophe Belisle-Pipon (Visiting Researcher) to the board
IAB

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

September 16, 2019
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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…

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Research Assistant in Global Health and Rights, Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School

Deadline: Open until filled.

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

April 23, 2019

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"

April 17, 2019
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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

March 11, 2019
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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

November 16, 2018

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

November 5, 2018

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

October 24, 2018
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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

October 15, 2018

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

October 12, 2018

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

September 28, 2018
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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

September 26, 2018
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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

David Locke & Carmel Shachar (Executive Director)
New Law Journal

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!

Petrie-Flom Center

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

Rachel Bluth, quoting Rachel E. Sachs (Academic Fellow Alumna)
Kaiser Health News

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

Krishanu Saha, J. Benjamin Hurlbut,Sheila Jasanoff,Aziza Ahmed, Anthony Appiah, Elizabeth Bartholet [...] I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)[...]
Trends in Biotechnology

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?

Lindsey Rae Gjording, quoting Rachel Sachs (Academic Fellow Alumna)
DW

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…

Vaccine against Meningitis: Quebec Pays Twice As Much As United Kingdom

Marie-Claude Malboeuf, Suit brought by Jean-Christophe Belisle Pipon (Visiting Researcher)
La Presse

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

Medical Tourism Magazine, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)

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

Tim McDonnell, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
The New York Times

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

March 19, 2018

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

March 9, 2018

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

Eli Y. Adashi and I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Obstetrics & Gynecology

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

Q & A with I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Harvard Law Today

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…

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Apply now! Call for Applications: Research Fellow for Diagnostic Digital Home Health, Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School

Deadline: Filled.

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)

Petrie-Flom Center

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

Daniel Block, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Foreign Policy

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

Ed Silverman, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
STAT

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

Avishalom Westreich (Visiting Scholar Alumnus)
Jerusalem Post

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

Josh Keefe, quoting Rachel E. Sachs (Academic Fellow Alumna)
International Business Times

[...] 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.…