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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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JANUARY 24, 2024

WHO has released guidance on the use of large multi-modal models (LMMs) in health care which detail 40+ recommendations for stakeholders in the field to consider when deploying AI. The post Ethics for AI in Health – A View From The World Health Organization appeared first on HealthPopuli.com.

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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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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2023

By Roojin Habibi, Timothy Fish Hodgson, and Alicia Ely Yamin Today, as the world transitions from living in the grips of a novel coronavirus to living with an entrenched, widespread infectious disease known as COVID-19, global appreciation for the human rights implications of public health crises are once again rapidly fading from view.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 25, 2021

Artificial intelligence (AI) has begun to play a role in health care for predictive analytics, personalization, and public health. On 26th January, I’ll moderate a tweetchat at 1 pm Eastern time, brainstorming the current and future state of and opportunities for AI in health care.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

I-DAIR is a global organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with the mission of expanding access to inclusive and responsible research into AI and digital health. Dr. Baptista Leite is also a third-term Member of the Portuguese National Parliament and Head of Public Health at the Catholic University of Portugal.

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Jane Sarashon

JULY 28, 2022

“Tech giants are the primary forces driving digital transformation forward,” and this is especially the case for health care systems re-imagining how health care services are delivered and “consumed.” Why worry about ethical values in digital health technologies?

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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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JULY 2, 2024

The FAS asserts that we need regulatory frameworks, investment in AI accessibility, incentives for data collection and collaboration, and regulations for auditing and governance of AI systems used in CDS systems/tools. The FAS notes that the Medicare and Medicaid programs in the U.S.

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

By Taleed El-Sabawi The use of emergency public health powers by state and local governments during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic led to intense public criticism followed by legislative attempts (include some successes) to strip state executives of this authority. What does the future hold?

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

By Sharona Hoffman As state and federal public health authority erodes, employers may increasingly find themselves playing a central role in promoting public health. In the future, they may frequently take the lead in implementing public health measures. Sharona Hoffman is the Edgar A.

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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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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

As a result of my personal experiences and my professional background as a Professor of Law and Bioethics at Case Western Reserve University, I wrote a book called Aging with a Plan: How a Little Thought Today Can Vastly Improve Your Tomorrow. She is the author of over 70 articles and book chapters about health law and civil rights issues.

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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

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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FEBRUARY 17, 2025

exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, could set the stage for another public health emergency given eroding trust in institutions — especially in media, government, and public health officials. public that would connect with people. The partisan divide in the U.S.,

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 12, 2021

and the issue of pandemic preparedness for the next “Disease X” became part of global public health planning. But the biggest health threat to human life is climate change, according to a new report from the World Health Organization titled The Health Argument for Climate Action.

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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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AUGUST 28, 2020

I wrote about this challenge in 2014 in my report for California Health Care Foundation, Here’s Looking at You: How Personal Information Is Being Tracked and Used. Years ago, the Harvard Privacy Project led by Latanya Sweeney at the time had addressed privacy as, “the sword and the shield of public health.”

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Health Populi

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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SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Building a nutrition label for health equity – learning from MITRE . Questions about the ethics and governance of AI in health are being posed globally. To build a digital health ecosystem that delivers timely access to information to inform public health decision-making, and.

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JANUARY 14, 2022

In the future, he envisions the mesh of the food system with the health system. The pandemic has stretched the food system to its fragile limits, dependent on corporate food conglomerates whose supply chains were broken in the public health crisis.

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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. With fast growth in the public health crisis comes evolving and growing risks that, in the midst of the pandemic hurricane, have gone unattended.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 25, 2022

This disturbing health crisis is insidiously ingrained in the culture of corrections and surprisingly neglected in American public health scholarship. Indeed, legislators must heed this scholarship, not only for its potential benefit to inmates, but also for the welfare of the broader American public health.

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Bill of Health

JANUARY 18, 2024

While receiving significant global traction and acceptance since their publication in 1985, the Siracusa Principles, the authors argue, proved to be simply “unequal to the task” of guiding States’ conduct in the context of COVID-19 because they are “unable to speak in any significant detail to the particular concerns of public health crises.”

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Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Frequently labelled a scholar-activist, she combines academic research and scholarship that bridges law, development, and public health with grassroots work and policy advocacy. Although I’m the only Senior Fellow focusing on global health work at PFC, affiliated researchers also contribute enormously to GHRP. 1991), M.P.H.

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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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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

JANUARY 7, 2022

Over the summer of 2021, concern grew that the vaccines were not providing the near-perfect protection against symptomatic disease and transmission that had first emboldened the administration to jettison other public health measures. Instead, the administration mostly adapted by shifting its messaging.

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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

MARCH 7, 2024

In response to the COVID pandemic, the federal government passed the Ryan Haight Act to ease restrictions on telehealth services — making it easier to provide medications to patients without speaking (in person) to a physician. Leveraging Public Opinion to Serve Public Health Again, this is not necessarily problematic !

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

This will include transporting pregnant women to other states to receive an abortion if they are being detained in a state where the health procedure is now illegal. As noted by several scholars, the Dobbs decision will have impacts on laws governing areas other than reproductive rights.

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Bill of Health

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Within both eras, such actions have fueled stigma, propagated misinformation, and encouraged scapegoating in the middle of public health crises. . The legal relationship between employees and employers is governed by agency law. Unlike HIV/AIDS, the monkeypox virus is not a sexually transmitted infection (STI).

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The risks inherent to leaving matters of public health in the hands of private actors during public health emergencies; and. The drawbacks associated with relying on systems of decentralized governance and federalism to address health and public health crises.

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Bill of Health

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Pressure from Senator Bernie Sanders, Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee seems to have catalyzed the administration to make this move. It is unlikely that the removal of a reasonable pricing condition on products funded by the federal government contributed to an increase in CRADAs.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 12, 2024

But the disappointment surrounding financing outcomes was merely a symptom of deeper power imbalances, what critical legal scholar Martti Koskenniemi describes as the “structural biases” of global governance institutions. Yet this progress was not abstracted from the structural bias shaping the broader climate governance regime.

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