Bill of Health

APRIL 26, 2022

To navigate the myriad interests and stakes involved in creating federal psychedelic policy, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School convened a virtual panel discussion with three leading psychedelic policy advocates. By James R. A full video of the event is available below.

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HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Singh is a nationally recognized leader in the evaluation of proprietary AI technologies and has actively influenced AI policy through his research and participation in key initiatives, including the Google Health Bioethics Summit. Carethers, MD, vice chancellor for Health Sciences at UC San Diego.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

In fact, before publishing the book, the authors petitioned the government, highlighting glaring regulatory issues, but the government turned a blind eye. The book relies on primary sources of information — mainly government reports, judicial decisions, and government data.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Moreover, the Principles can equip civil society, jurists, and others with the tools to hold their governments and powerful corporate entities accountable to the standards set by human rights. But the Principles bear relevance and were developed for all levels of governance in mind.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 24, 2023

Regulatory and patent exclusivity periods govern the timing of generic entry, and because market share and revenue is often quickly lost upon market entry of generic drugs, extending market exclusivity for any duration can be extremely profitable. Glenn Cohen’s Health Law Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology Workshop at HLS.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 13, 2023

There is no specific regulation governing such research in the U.S.; it’s just that the federal government won’t fund the research. The post What the Law and Bioethics Tell Us About Synthetic Human Embryos first appeared on Bill of Health. To date, most, if not all, U.S. The original article can be found here.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 18, 2022

In 2019, China announced a new law prohibiting Chinese organizations from sharing genetic data with foreign groups without government approval. Government officials recently have expressed concern about the open-access sharing of U.K. Other countries have taken notice. citizens’ health data with China.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 25, 2022

Degree Candidate in Government and Global Health and Health Policy at Harvard College and a student intern at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Jolin is an A.B. His academic interests lie at the intersection of criminal justice and public health.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 18, 2024

Soekoe and Davis, both South African lawyers involved in litigation relating to transparency in vaccine contracts between the Government and pharmaceutical companies , detail the successful vindication of the right to access to information, entrenched in the South African Constitution and legislation.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The study engaged a diverse group of 30 South Africans in three evenings of deliberations on the governance of HHGE. Moreover, there were calls for the South African government to invest in HHGE research in order for South Africa to become an active player in this research space.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 12, 2022

Decentralized cooperative finance enables more diverse and resilient alternatives to corporate or government control of our essential infrastructure. This avoids vendor lock-in to corporate or government interests. Many current technical initiatives are “false flag” operations under jargon such as Self Sovereign Identity or Web3.

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HIT Consultant

AUGUST 1, 2023

The most important skills cited by several studies and publications as being important for life sciences professionals include research ethics, scientific peer communication, bioethics, time management, research project management and scientific knowledge and methods outside of their present research area and awareness of industry trends.

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Jane Sarashon

JANUARY 24, 2024

As you continue to debate the role of AI in your health/care work, as well as develop your organization’s strategy and staff complement, the WHO report (through this lens) gives us some insights into how to optimally approach governance when moving forward in this next phase of health care innovation.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 28, 2024

They completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the Department of Bioethics at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and received their PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. Harrison M.A., is a licensed marriage and family therapist, researcher, and bioethicist. William Leonard Pickard M.P.P.,

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

After her death in 2013, the Southwark Coroner’s Court found that air pollution “made a material contribution” to her death, “a landmark decision” according to a government advisor on air pollution. The coroner concluded that Ella was exposed to excessive levels of pollution.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 6, 2024

The federal government did not challenge this decision and instead amended the law in 2021 to expand access to MAID to individuals whose deaths are not reasonably foreseeable. Attorney General of Canada. The Court struck down the “reasonably foreseeable” requirement as violative of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Though strict protocol typically governs everything in hospitals, for prisoners, those rules seem to go out the window, without deliberation. This heightens the cruelty of incarceration. For example, typically, before a patient is placed in restraints, there has to be a face-to-face evaluation on initiation and frequent reassessment.

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Bill of Health

JULY 17, 2023

Concluding reflections In July 2019, the UN Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on climate change and disability rights, which called on governments to adopt a disability-inclusive approach to climate adaptation.

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Bill of Health

APRIL 27, 2022

Many governments have welcomed Ukrainian pets with or without their owners, and without documentation, rabies vaccine, and/or microchip. EU initiatives and advocacy efforts by animal rights groups pushed receiving countries to modify entrance requirements, waive fees, provide veterinary services, and shorten or eliminate quarantine times.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 31, 2022

The Delta variant led the federal government to resume control over mAb supply and promulgate allocation guidelines. Over the past few months, we have seen the arrival and wider availability of treatments such as monoclonal antibodies (mAbs), and more recently, of novel oral antiviral drugs like Paxlovid and molnupiravir.

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Health Populi

APRIL 6, 2021

During the height of the pandemic, there was a predisposition to give up personal health and location tracing data to government to help control the spread of the disease. By mid-2020, Edelman detected, “a decline in willingness to share personal data to fight the pandemic. Now barely more than half are willing to do so….

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Health Populi

APRIL 5, 2021

The pandemic has accelerated the use of digital health across its many segments: telehealth, mHealth, software platforms, behavioral health, digital therapeutics, among them.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 14, 2022

If that were the moral imperative, government—the primary expression of shared responsibility—would defend and improve health just as energetically as it defends territorial integrity.”

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Health Populi

AUGUST 13, 2021

With government’s relaxing regulations, health care providers could move staff and resources virtually from place to place, regardless of State licensure or other barriers to providing telemedicine, remote monitoring, and other flavors of telehealth. Relaxing regulations can inspire creativity and entrepreneurial behavior.

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Bill of Health

JULY 27, 2023

face challenges in court, the legal, public health, medical, and bioethics communities have an essential role to play both in properly framing the legal issue, as well as explaining what is truly at stake in these cases to minimize the chances of similarly harmful rulings for the transgender community moving forward.

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Health Populi

MARCH 3, 2021

Taken together, my trend-weave opens the over-arching umbrella of ESG goals – for Environmental, Social, and Governance pillars have become strategic and impactful talking points in C-suites across all industry sectors. This includes health care.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 25, 2021

Science is catching up to science fiction,” Smith warned, with insights for governments and consumers alike. The first image of a hacker was a teenager sitting on a bed, Smith reminded us, like Matthew Broderick’s character in War Games drawn in to playing the game. Then the threat of global nuclear war.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Such a provision could prevent the public from paying twice for publicly-funded medical products—first through their taxes subsidizing government funded research and development, and second to procure the product in an inflated U.S. pharmaceutical market. Moreover, the NASDAQ Biotechnology Index increased by 374% from 1995 to 2000.

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Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

healthcare system, representing just one example of “healthcare federalism” — the division of power between the federal and state governments in the regulation of health care. Attorney General Merrick Garland made the position of the federal government clear, stating: “[T]he FDA has approved the use of the medication Mifepristone.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

I’ve been privileged to be able to work not only with non-governmental and grass-roots organizations but also with national governments and courts, as well as with UN bodies. I am so grateful to PFC and the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI) for supporting new stream of interdisciplinary work on evolving governance in global health.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The drawbacks associated with relying on systems of decentralized governance and federalism to address health and public health crises. The risks inherent to leaving matters of public health in the hands of private actors during public health emergencies; and. Over the coming weeks, we will publish the responses we received.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

These daily losses matter inestimably at a human level, yet they do not matter in any meaningful way at all to the public and private institutions that govern our lives. Government and employers will provide only as much justice as they are forced to by the political consequences we create, no less and no more.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As a noun, Merriam-Webster tells us that a rebel is a person who opposes or takes up arms against a government or a ruler. As a verb, “to rebel” is to oppose or disobey one in authority or control, or otherwise renounce and resist by force the authority of one’s government.”

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As scholars, we grapple with the question of what happens once the right to health is constitutionalized and whether it has a transformative effect on the economy, government funding, and the material reality people face in struggling health care systems.

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Jane Sarashon

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

While his friend did not win his race, William Weld did win the governor’s post and Abner joined State government under Weld. He ended up working in Massachusetts State government for about 15 years.

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Bill of Health

JUNE 15, 2024

Chevron holds that “a government agency must conform to any clear legislative statements when interpreting and applying a law, but courts will give the agency deference in ambiguous situations as long as its interpretation is reasonable.” However, this “government” is the one we voted into power — whose job it is to safeguard the populace.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 18, 2024

Strategies for regulating international surrogacy Developing a formal international agreement governing international surrogacy could be valuable to create a consistent regulatory regime. This could take the form of adapting and expanding an existing convention such as the 1993 Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption.

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