Monday, September 13 - 5pm
Health Law Policy Workshop |
 Abigail Moncreiff |
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Tuesday, September 14 - Noon |
Petrie-Flom Center Open House |
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Please
join us at the Center to welcome in the new academic year, meet our new
academic fellows and student fellows, and to learn about the plans for
events and programs scheduled for the upcoming semester. Information
about the vast array of programs and organizations focusing on health
care law, policy and bioethcis from across Harvard will be available
too for new members of the community interested in learning more. |
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Monday, September 27 - 5pm
Health Law Policy Workshop |
 Anup Malani |
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Monday, October 4 - 5pm
Health Law Policy Workshop |
 Rebecca Eisenberg |
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First Week of October: Online Symposium |
The Fragmentation of US Health Care: Causes and Solutions |
In a collaboration between the Center and the blog Concurring Opinions, we held an online symposium on the new book The Fragmentation of U.S. Health Care System: Causes and Solutions. This book, which grew out of a conference the Petrie-Flom Center hosted in 2008 was edited by Einer Elhauge and features a stellar list of contributors from law, economics, medicine, management, and other disciplines. This online symposium examined the themes and claims of the book, and in particular examined their relevance in the post health care reform world. Online symposium contributors: John Jacobi, Anup Malani, Abigail Moncrieff, Gwendolyn Roberts Majette, Ani Satz, Richard Saver, Vicki Williams, and Elizabeth Weeks. |
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Thursday, October 14 - noon |
Autism: Rights, Status, and Classification |
A multidisciplinary panel discussion addressing issues ranging from the new DSM classification, neuroscience, genetics, and disability rights. Panelists included Ari Ne'eman, the Founding President of the Autistic Self Advocacy Network and a newly appointed member of the National Council on Disability, and Isaac Kohane, Lawrence J. Henderson Professor of Pediatrics and Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard Medical School, Harvard Law School Professor and commentary by Faculty co-Director of the Petrie- Flom Center, Glenn Cohen, moderated by Professor Michael Stein of the Harvard Program on Disabilities.
Co-sponsored with the Harvard Law School Project on Disability
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Monday, October 18 - 5pm
Health Law Policy Workshop |
 David Hyman |
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Monday, November 1 - 5pm
Health Law Policy Workshop |
 Adam Kolbert |
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Monday, November 15 - 5pm
Health Law Policy Workshop |
Nir Eyal
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January 18 - Noon |
Current Controversies in Food and Drug Law |
A panel of distinguished practitioners discuss some of the current controversies in food and drug law, including changes in the FDA’s approval process for new drugs, the regulation of biosimilar products, restrictions on the marketing of therapeutics, and emergency preparedness for medical disasters.
Panelists
Peter Barton Hutt, Covington & Burling and Harvard Law School
Kirsten Mayer, Ropes & Gray
Mark Raza, FDA
Moderator
Benjamin Roin |
Monday, January 31 - 5pm
Health Law Policy Workshop |
Amitabh Chandra |
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Monday, February 28 - 5pm
Health Law Policy Workshop |
Ernst Berndt |
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Thursday, March 3 - 4pm |
Female Circumcision: Ethics and Human Rights |
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The practice of FGM has been at the center of health and human rights debates for decades. Public health, women's rights and child rights advocates, governments and health professional associations--in Africa, Asia, Europe and the US-- have taken positions running the gamut from abolition to harm reduction. In April 2010, the American Association of Pediatrics issued a Policy Statement on female genital cutting that was quickly retracted in the face of significant opposition. The controversy surrounding the report presents an excellent point of departure for examining the issues that still complicate our thinking about the issue. In this panel we hope to explore the ethical, legal, and human rights dimensions of female genital circumcision. These include dimensions of toleration, prohibition, harm-reduction, and cultural competency. |
Panelists
Dena Davis
Hope Lewis
Nawal Nour
Sarah Waldeck
Moderated by:
I. Glenn Cohen
Mindy Roseman
Co-sponsored with the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, and the Womens Law Association |
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Thursday, March 24 - noon |
Is the Obama Health Care Reform Constitutional? |
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America's most significant health care reform initiative in over 50 years, and the centerpiece of President Obama's domestic policy agenda, is currently being challenged in federal courts across the country. Thus far, two district courts have pronounced the measure (at least in part) unconstitutional focusing on its individual mandate, while two courts have upheld the measure. Appeals are pending before the Circuit courts, and with more litigation on the way the question may soon end up before the U.S. Supreme Court. Is the reform constitutional? How is the Supreme Court likely to rule? This panel, involving the nation's leading constitutional law scholars, will address these issues. The debate will be introduced by Harvard Law School Dean, Martha Minow.
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Panelists:
Charles Fried
Laurence H. Tribe
Randy Barnett
Moderator:
I. Glenn Cohen
Co-sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics and the Harvard Law School Federalist Society |
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Monday, March 28 - 5pm
Health Law Policy Workshop |
Einer Elhauge |
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Monday, April 4 - Noon |
Racial Disparities in Health Care |
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Forty years after the end of the Jim Crow era and the passage of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, there remain large racial disparities in the American healthcare system. This panel will explore the strengths and weaknesses of various policies that may be employed to alleviate ongoing racial health disparities. Such policies include those that enhance the enforcement or reach of existing civil rights laws and those that call for more direct and targeted quality-improvement initiatives. In addition, the panel will discuss those aspects of the Affordable Care Act that may lead to reduced disparities in care |
Panelists:
David Barton Smith,
Anup Malani
Gregg Bloche
Amitabh Chandra
Michael Frakes |
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Monday, April 4 - Noon
Health Law Policy Workshop
Location: HLS Hauser 105 |
Michelle Meyer |
Regulating the Production of Knowledge
Knowledge production is the core of the information economy. If knowledge-producing activities are mis-regulated, neither upstream incentives to innovate nor downstream incentives to disseminate information will much matter. The primary means of producing knowledge is research, and knowledge that is most likely to be directly relevant to human welfare usually requires research on human beings. Unfortunately, the available evidence - a small amount of empirical data, anecdote, and theories of optimal regulation - all point in the same direction: On any relevant metric - efficiency, legitimacy, equality or liberty - the current regulatory framework governing human subjects research (HSR) is suboptimal, at best.... |
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Monday, April 11 - 5pm
Health Law Policy Workshop |
I. Glenn Cohen |
Medical Outlaws or Medical Refugees? Circumvention Medical Tourism and the Extraterritorial Application of Domestic Criminal Law
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Monday, April 18 - 5pm
Health Law Policy Workshop |
Talha Syed |
Distributive Justice & Disability: Theory and Applications for a New Criterion of Weighted Priority |
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Thursday, April 28 |
Children with Disabilities: What's Right, What's Wrong, What's Next? |
This panel will discuss issues on the road for educational, legal, and health care rights for children with cognitive, social/emotional, and physical disabilities.
Tom Hehir Harvard Graduate School of Education
Charles Homer Harvard School of Public Health
Martha Field, Harvard Law School
Jaishree Capoor Blythedale Children's Hospital
Mary Catherine Arbour Harvard Medical School |
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