Overview

The Petrie-Flom Center fellowships are the central component of the Petrie-Flom Center’s mission to promote scholarly inquiry and shape the debates surrounding issues of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics. The fellowship programs are designed to support scholars pursuing various forms of research, including work from philosophical, economical, or empirical perspectives and are intended to be focused on contributing original ideas or findings that could be useful in guiding legal policy in the fields of health law, policy and bioethics.

The Center offers four types of fellowships:

• Senior Fellowships -- This is a one year fellowship for prominent senior scholars who wish to spend a year at the Center.
  

• Academic Fellowships -- This is a two year fellowship paying $60,000 per year for persons who already have a graduate degree in law or some other discipline, and are interested in doing original academic work in the Center's fields of health law policy, biotechnology or bioethics.

• Student Fellowships -- This fellowship is designed for current Harvard graduate students in law or other fields who wish to work on creating publishable scholarship within the Center's fields. Student fellows receive an annual stipend and participate in Center workshops and research lunches.

• Global Health & Human Rights Fellowships -- A joint program of the Petrie-Flom Center and the Human Rights Program at Harvard Law School, these one- or two-year fellowships allow scholars time to conduct research or to lead a clinical project on global health and human rights. The work product of this fellowship can range from scholarly papers, manuscripts and monographs, to direct involvement in policy or legal activities.

"“The Petrie-Flom Center establishes Harvard Law School as a preeminent place to work on health law, biotechnology, and bioethics.  It connects students and fellows to the great existing resources at other Harvard faculties examining these issues, while adding to the discourse a distinctly legal perspective.  It asks members of the law school community what we, as lawyers, can contribute in shaping the health care system of the 21st century.”