Upcoming Events

Friday, November 2, 2012
Symposium: Insitutional fCOIs in Research Universities
	Agenda Welcome Glenn Cohen The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, Harvard Law School Lawrence Lessig Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University Introduction and Overview David Korn, M.D. Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital Evolving Roles and Enduring Values of American Research Universities Jonathan Cole Columbia University William Fisher Harvard Law School Ezekiel Emanuel University of Pennsylvania Institutional Conflicts of Interest in Practice, Part I Derek Bok Harvard University Jonathan H. Marks The Pennsylvania State University Welcome Martha Minow Dean, Harvard Law School Institutional Conflicts of Interest in Practice, Part II Claude Canizares Massachusetts Institute of Technology Hunter Rawlings Association of American Universities Federal Perspectives on Institutional Financial Conflicts of Interest Francis Collins National Institutes of Health Sally Rockey National Institutes of Health Julie Taitsman Office of the Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services Concluding Session Charles Vest National Academy of Engineering
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Recent Events

Friday and Saturday, May 18-19, 2012
PFC Annual Conference: The Future of Human Subjects Research
	The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently released an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM), titled “Human Subjects Research Protections: Enhancing Protections for Research Subjects and Reducing Burden, Delay, and Ambiguity for Investigators,” which proposes to substantially amend the Common Rule for the first time in twenty years. This development, as well as attention by the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, suggests we are at a moment when the regulation of human subjects research is ripe for re‐thinking. This conference is meant to gather leading experts from the U.S. and across the globe to assist in that endeavor. Conference Program
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Thursday and Friday, April 19-20, 2012
The Harvard Global Health Institute Recent Conference – 7th Annual Program in Ethics and Health: Identified Lives vs. Statistical Lives – Ethics and Public Policy
	The Harvard Global Health Institute in collaboration with partner organizations including the Petrie-Flom Center convened a University-wide program focusing on how decision makers and the public tend to feel more strongly obligated to assist “identified” people at risk than to assist “statistical” ones, and the implications for public policy. To illustrate, when a group of Chilean miners were stranded following a 2010 mine accident, the rescue mission garnered worldwide support and millions of dollars, but the public had not felt a similar need to invest in mine safety measures that would have saved more statistical lives. The conference examined questions such as what factors trigger or explain this difference in attitude and behavior; how is it manifested when we think about global health problems, such as treatment and prevention (and “treatment as prevention”) for HIV/AIDS; does the law express such bias; is there any ethical justification for this bias, for example, as a matter of obligation toward each and every individual? Is it, alternatively, a moral error, rooted in well-known cognitive biases? Conference Program Webcasts
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