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Upcoming Event – Advances in HIV Prevention: Legal, Clinical, and Public Health Issues
Monday, November 5, 2012
12-1:30 pm
Austin Hall, Room 111
Harvard Law School
On July 3, 2012, FDA approved OraQuick, the first at-home HIV test available for sale directly to consumers, allowing individuals to self-test and receive confidential results in about 20 minutes. Then on July 16, FDA approved once-daily Truvada, an already-approved HIV therapy, as the first agent approved for pre-exposure prophylaxis in uninfected, at-risk adults. These developments represent dramatic changes in the fight against HIV, and raise a host of legal, clinical, and public health issues. Please join us for a panel discussion of these issues with some of the preeminent leaders in the field, moderated by Robert Greenwald, Director of the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation at Harvard Law School:
- Douglas A. Michels, President and CEO, OraSure Technologies, Inc.
- David Piontkowsky, Senior Director for Medical Affairs, HIV and HIV Global Medical Director, Gilead Sciences, Inc.
- Kenneth H. Mayer, Medical Research Director, Co-Chair of The Fenway Institute
- Kevin Cranston, Director, Bureau of Infectious Disease, Massachusetts Department of Public Health
- Mark Barnes, Senior Associate Provost, University Chief Research Compliance Officer, Harvard University
This event is free and open to the public. Lunch and refreshments will be served. Co-sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center, the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, and the Fenway Institute.
Upcoming Event: Human Rights and the Social Determinants of Health, November 1-2, 2012 at Northeastern University
Human Rights and the Social Determinants of Health
Thursday, November 1, 2012, 1-5:30pm
Friday, November 2, 2012, 12-1:30pm
Northeastern University School of Law
Dockster Hall
65 Forsyth Street, Boston
The Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy (PHRGE) and the Program on Health Policy and Law at Northeastern University School of Law are hosting an event entitled “Human Rights and the Social Determinants of Health” on November 1 and November 2, 2012. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Ichiro Kawachi, from the Harvard School of Public Health. The event will also feature a special presentation by Sir Michael Marmot of University College London. Marmot is known internationally as a pioneer in the field of the social determinants of health. For further information, please contact Sasha Varasano
Call for Papers – Petrie-Flom Center Annual Conference: The Food and Drug Administration in the 21st Century
We are pleased to announce plans for our annual conference, this year entitled: “The Food and Drug Administration in the 21st Century.” This one and a half day event will take place Friday and Saturday, May 3-4, 2013, at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For details on the event and the call for proposals, see the Call for Papers/Presentations. Abstracts are due no later than December 10, 2012.
Reminder, TODAY – Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics
TODAY!
4:00pm
Radcliffe Gymnasium
18 Mason Street
Cambridge, MA
Please join us for a presentation of the 2012-2013 Radcliffe Fellows Series.
Petrie-Flom Faculty co-Director I. Glenn Cohen will discuss the growing phenomenon of medical tourism, the practice of citizens of one country traveling to seek medical care in another country. He will examine the emerging legal and ethical issues brought up by the many varieties of medical tourism—for services that are legal in the destination and home country, for services that are illegal in the home country but legal in the destination country, and for services that are illegal in both places.
Upcoming Event – Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
4:00pm
Radcliffe Gymnasium
18 Mason Street
Cambridge, MA
Please join us for a presentation of the 2012-2013 Radcliffe Fellows Series.
Bill of Health Co-Editor I. Glenn Cohen will discuss the growing phenomenon of medical tourism, the practice of citizens of one country traveling to seek medical care in another country. He will examine the emerging legal and ethical issues brought up by the many varieties of medical tourism—for services that are legal in the destination and home country, for services that are illegal in the home country but legal in the destination country, and for services that are illegal in both places.
TOMORROW: Glenn Cohen on Action Speaks! Diamond v. Chakrabarty
Tomorrow, Wednesday, October 3 at 5:30 pm, Bill of Health co-editor I. Glenn Cohen will participate in a live national broadcast on Actionspeaksradio.org regarding Diamond v. Chakrabarty, the 1980 case that first established the right to patent life.
For information on how to listen or attend the recording live in Providence, RI, click here. And for some background from Glenn on the case and current issues, click here and here.
Upcoming Event: “Office and Responsibility – A Symposium in Honor of Professor Dennis Thompson”
Our colleagues at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, the Department of Government, and the FAS Dean’s Office at Harvard are sponsoring an exciting event next Thursday and Friday, October 11-12, 2012, in honor of Professor Dennis Thompson. The symposium is free and open to the public
For information on the lineup of speakers and presentations, visit the Symposium webpage.
Reminder, TODAY – Health Care Reform: A View from Both Sides
Today’s the day!
12:00-1:30pm
Austin Hall, Classroom 111
Harvard Law School
Please join us for a special off-the-record debate on American health care reform, moderated by the Petrie-Flom Center’s Founding Faculty Director, Einer Elhauge. John McDonough, official surrogate of the Obama campaign and director of the Center for Public Health Leadership at the Harvard School of Public Health, and Oren Cass, domestic policy director for the Romney campaign, will discuss what each candidate would mean for the future of US health policy.
This event is free and open to the public. No reporting will be permitted without the express permission of the speakers. Lunch and refreshments will be served.
Co-sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center, HLS Democrats, HLS Republicans, and HLS American Constitution Society.
Call for Applications: Summer Ethics Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics
The Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE) uses a unique historical lens to engage law students in an intensive course of study focused on contemporary legal ethics. FASPE Fellows are granted an all-expenses paid 12-day trip to Germany and Poland to learn about the roles played by legal practitioners — lawyers and judges — in Nazi Germany, underscoring the reality that moral codes governing the legal profession can break down or be distorted with devastating consequences. This historical perspective then becomes a launching point for discussions about ethical dilemmas facing lawyers in American today. The program integrates historical, cultural, philosophical, and literary sources; survivor testimony; and on-site workshops in Berlin, Auschwitz, and Nuremberg.
FASPE Law was initially developed with the assistance of Professor Tony Kronman, former Dean of Yale Law School and other Yale Law School faculty members. Since piloting the program in 2009, 43 Fellows have participated from law schools including Berkeley, Columbia, Georgetown, Harvard, Northwestern, the University of Arizona and Yale. The summer 2013 program will include 12-15 new Fellows chosen through a national application process. The lead instructor for the 2013 program will be Eric Muller, the Dan K. Moore Distinguished Professor in Jurisprudence and Ethics at UNC School of Law. The Fellowships include all costs associated with the 12-day program, including international and European travel, lodging, and food.
FASPE Law Fellows examine such topics as:
- Ethical approaches to truth and disclosure in the adversarial process.
- The ethical challenges of ambition in professional development.
- Ethics and government lawyering.
- The Nuremberg Trials and post-war justice, in historic and modern contexts.
- Ethics in the day-to-day practice of law.
The Fellows are provided with reading materials prior to meeting in New York; and the academic component of the program is intensive and interactive. Daily Seminars are led by faculty and local experts who engage the Fellows in legal issues associated with the locations visited.
The tentative program dates for FASPE Law are May 26 – June 6, 2013.
Completed applications must be received by January 11, 2013. Candidates of all religious, ethnic, and cultural backgrounds are encouraged to apply. To apply or to learn more about FASPE, please visit: https://www.FASPE.info If you have any questions, please contact Thorin Tritter, Managing Director of FASPE, at ttritter@FASPE.info.
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