The Petrie-Flom Center is pleased to welcome our new 2017-2018 Student Fellows. In the coming year, each fellow will pursue independent scholarly projects related to health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics under the mentorship of Center faculty and fellows. They will also be regular contributors here at Bill of Health on issues related to their research.
Clíodhna Ní Chéileachair is an LL.M student from Ireland at Harvard Law School, and holds a BCL degree in Law and Philosophy from University College Dublin. Prior to her masters, she worked as a teaching assistant in criminal law, company law and the philosophy of law in University College Dublin and as a paralegal in a corporate firm, with a focus on healthcare litigation and employment law. Her primary research interests are in the intersection of feminist legal theory and health law, ethics and the philosophy of law, particularly in relation to questions of consent and objectivity. For her Fellowship project, Clíodhna will study the manner in which health law and policy intersects with issues of personhood and autonomy in the context of pregnancy.
Aobo Dong is an M.T.S. candidate in Religion, Politics, and Ethics at the Harvard Divinity School. He graduated from Wesleyan University, where he majored in Social Studies and examined the alliance between American evangelicals and the GOP in his honors thesis. At Harvard, his research interests have shifted toward reconciling potential conflicts between religion and the modern human rights discourse, particularly in terms of sexuality, health, and other social-economic rights. He is also a junior fellow at the Science, Religion & Culture (SRC) program. For his Fellowship project, Aobo will investigate the legal and ethical challenges surrounding the fast-expanding healthcare cost-sharing ministries (HCSMs) that provide members with an alternative to traditional insurance models.
Gali Katznelson is a M.Be. candidate at the Center for Bioethics at Harvard Medical School. She completed a bachelor’s degree in Arts & Science at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. Her research interests include the ethics of emerging healthcare technologies. For her Fellowship project, she will focus on physician perceptions of the use and regulations of mobile health applications.
Yusuf Lenfest is an M.T.S. candidate in Islamic Studies at the Harvard Divinity School. He pursued undergraduate and graduate education at the University of Vermont (BA) and the London School of Economics (MSc) in the fields of literature, philosophy, and comparative politics. He is trained as a jurist in the Maliki school of law, in which he is qualified to issue fatwa, and he also completed advanced training in the fields of legal theory and theology under the tutelage of renowned Mauritanian scholar Shaykh Abdallah Bin Bayyah. For his Fellowship project, Yusuf will examine bioethical issues in contemporary Islamic legal and religious thought.