The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School

The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Challenges

May 2011

The increasing globalization of health care and its inputs provides new challenges for health law and bioethics.  This conference brought together leading scholars and policy-makers to discuss several overlapping and diverging instances of this globalization, to try and develop new strategies and paradigms to approach these issues. Comprised of six panels over the course of two days, the event spurred provocative, engaging discussions.

Panel 1:

Medical Tourism One: Services Legal in Home and Destination Countries

tom mclean and leigh turner
Tom McLean and Leigh Turner

Presenters

Nathan Cortez

Hilko Meyer

Tom McLean

Jeremy Snyder

Leigh Turner

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Panel 2:

Medical Tourism Two: Services Illegal or Unavailable in Home Country

kimberly mutcherson
Kimberly Mutcherson

Presenters

Hazel Biggs

I. Glenn Cohen

Aaron Levine

Leslie Wolf

Kimberly Mutcherson

Richard Storrow

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Panel 3:

Research and Development / Telemedicine

trudo lemmens
Trudo Lemmens and Deth Sao

Presenters

Robert Gatter

Amar Gupta

Deth Sao

Trudo Lemmens

Gil Siegal

Bethany Spielman

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Panel 4:

Medical Worker Migration

lincoln chen
Lincoln Chen

Presenters

Nir Eyal

Vivien Runnels

Lucas Stanczyk

Allyn Taylor

 

Commentator

Lincoln Chen

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Panel 5:

Health Care Globalization and Equity

daniel goldberg
Daniel Goldberg

Presenters

Pavlos Eleftheriadis

Daniel Goldberg

Cynthia Ho

Kevin Outterson

Jennifer Prah-Ruger

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Panel 6:

Transplant Tourism is Different than Medical Tourism

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Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Presenters

Alexander Capron

Francis Delmonico

Nancy Scheper-Hughes

Daniel Wikler

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