Category: Announcements

International Aid, Public Health, and Corruption

I. Glenn Cohen Leave a comment

My wonderful HLS colleague Matthew Stephenson has just launched the Global Anticorruption Blog (GAB). As it happens, his first two posts may be of interest to BOH readers, especially those  may be of interest to readers interested in international aid for public health projects, of the sort supported by the Gates Foundation.  The first post argues that the extent of corruption in these projects is much larger than the Gates Foundation and others acknowledge.  The second post contends that one reason for lowballing of corruption estimates is political: these projects depend substantially on public funding, and political support for health aid may be undercut by candid assessments of the extent of the corruption and fraud problems. Both the posts and the blog are well worth a read.

A New Way to Keep Up with New PHLR

Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research Leave a comment

This week, PHLR launched its SciVal Experts PHLR Community website.  The core of the site is publications and other information for 300 leading public health law researchers doing empirical evaluations of the impact of laws and legal practices on health. The SciVal system allows visitors to find experts by topic, to trace their institutional and individual networks, and to find the latest publications in the field.

We encourage you to visit the site and explore for yourself, but we’ll also begin periodically sharing batches of publications on this blog.

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Announcing the New Journal of Law and Biosciences

The Petrie-Flom Center Staff Leave a comment

The Petrie-Flom Center and Harvard Law School are delighted to announce our partnership with Duke University, Stanford University, and Oxford University Press to launch a new peer-reviewed, open access, online journal in 2014: Journal of Law and the Biosciences (JLB).

JLB will become the preeminent outlet to publish cutting-edge scholarship wherever law and the biosciences intersect. The journal will take a broad and interdisciplinary view of these areas, publishing articles on topics generally considered part of bioethics or neuroethics, such as the ethical, legal, and social implications of reproductive technologies, genetics, stem cell research, neuroscience, or human biological enhancement.  At the same time, JLB will be a home for work that speaks directly to legal issues where the biosciences can be involved, such as food and drug regulation, biosciences patent law, scientific evidence, and criminal responsibility.

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Beyond Roe: Reproductive Justice in A Changing World

Michele Goodwin Leave a comment

By Michele Goodwin

Blogging highlights from Rutgers-Camden (conference coordinated by Professor Kimberly Mutcherson)

A few blog highlights from the Beyond Roe conference at Rutgers-Camden:

Excellent Keynote remarks presented by Byllye Avery, founder of Black Women’s Health Imperative and MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (aka Genius Award). Dr. Avery urges a close examination of the states challenging reproductive access.  She explains a link between former slave states as the new battlefront in reproductive equality…

June Carbone gives a provocative preview of her forthcoming book with Naomi Cahn: The Marriage Market

Dazon Dixon Diallo, President of Sister Love, Inc-presents new empirical data on race, youth, and reproductive decision-making and African American youths’ perspectives on abortion.

Young scholars to watch out for:

Aziza Ahmed, Assistant Professor at Northeastern School of Law presents a project on Scientific Expertise in Abortion Jurisprudence.

Lisa Kelly, SJD candidate at Harvard Law School gives an enlightening talk on Transnational abortion rights and the litigation emerging in Latin American countries.

Terrific project on the rise by Grace Howard, a PhD student at Rutgers University who presented a talk: When the Crime is Birth: “Meth Babies” and the Limits of Pure White

The Petrie-Flom Center Unveils New Website

The Petrie-Flom Center Staff Leave a comment

The Petrie-Flom Center is proud to announce our new website:  https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/. The site continues to provide key information about the Center, our fellows, and events, but it is now poised to become the go-to place for news, scholarship, and other information on health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics.

Please stop by and take a look at some of the great new features:

  • Our front page now highlights key national and international news stories in our fields, as well as news and scholarly announcements regarding our affiliates, recent blog posts from here at Bill of Health, and an at-a-glance view of our upcoming events.
  • At our new events page, you can view – and share – all upcoming events, or sort items by type: lectures/panels, conferences, and workshops. You can also view an archive of our previous events (which is still in development) and watch event videos as they become available.
  • We have added a resources page, where you can find primers on key topics in health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics, including the Affordable Care Act, conflicts of interest, conscience, human subjects research, gene patenting, reproductive rights, vaccines, and more. You can also head to this page to find scholarship and media commentary from our affiliates.
  • For students, there are now pages (also in development) collating curricular resources and programs at Harvard and elsewhere.
  • The new site allows us to tag items by subject, which will making searching for what you’re interested in easier and more informative. Scroll down to the footer to see popular tags.
  • Finally, check back soon for a new “Opportunities” tab, where we’ll highlight jobs, fellowships, and other items of interest in the fields of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics from beyond the Petrie-Flom Center.

As we launch the new site, there are sure to be a few kinks. Please let us know if you find something that isn’t working quite as it should, or if you need help locating something from our old webpage.

We’d love to hear your feedback! In particular, if you have ideas for our key topics initiative, or another resource that ought to be included under the For Students tab, please let us know.

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2014 Health Law Student Scholarships for Healthcare Compliance Certification Program at Seton Hall

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Healthcare Compliance Certification Program 

2014 Health Law Student Scholarships

Seton Hall University School of Law 

Center for Health & Pharmaceutical Law & Policy 

The Healthcare Compliance Certification Program is a multi-day educational program that addresses the myriad of legal and compliance issues faced by the pharmaceutical and medical device industries.

Purpose: This award recognizes promising health law students with an aptitude for and commitment to a career in health law with a focus on the legal and compliance issues within the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical technology industries.

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Health Law Chair Position at Loyola University Chicago

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By Nadia N. Sawicki

I’m pleased to announce that Loyola University Chicago School of Law is seeking to fill the recently created Bernard J. Beazley Chair in Health Law and Policy.  My colleagues and I at the the Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy are excited for the opportunity to welcome a distinguished scholar of health law into the Loyola community.

Inquiries should be directed to Prof. Spencer Weber Waller, the chair of the search committee, at swalle1@luc.edu. Interested candidates should submit an application at www.careers.luc.edu.

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