Agentic AI could revolutionize health care delivery. Amid severe shortages in maternal health care, significant legal and ethical questions loom. Susannah Baruch shares thoughts on the new Health Affairs article: www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

🚨We are currently accepting abstracts for our 2026 annual conference, “Embryo Law and Ethics.” Read more here: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/current-oppo...

Join us Oct. 8 for an in-person lunchtime discussion of the legal, scientific, medical, and ethical issues related to aging political and judicial leaders. RSVP for location: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/detai...

We are excited to welcome seven new student fellows to the Petrie-Flom Center. Tai, Julia, Danny, Quincy, Evelyn, Aarushi, and Jared will be with us for the 2025-26 academic year. Read about their research interests here: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/09/17/i...

New article by Susannah Baruch argues pronatalists' efforts have been shown to harm people and not increase birth rates: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Take a look at our special Climate Justice collection for Harvard Climate Action Week: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/detai...

Join us to celebrate two decades of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. RSVP here petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/detai...

New blog post on Europe’s efforts to combat addictive algorithms petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/08/20/a...

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New article by I. Glenn Cohen and Guillermo Astudillo call for data deletion as a cornerstone of future U.S. data privacy protections: news.bloomberglaw.com/us-law-week/...

As we celebrate 20 years of the Petrie-Flom Center, see press coverage of our opening plus a teaser of our anniversary event on Sept. 11. RSVP for location: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/detai...

A new paper by ‪Christopher Robertson @bulaw.bsky.social and Wendy N. Epstein ‪at DePaul University in @nejm.org highlights the role private law is poised to play in American health care in the coming years www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Governance in quantum technology is needed, according to a new paper in Science. To read the article, by authors Mateo Aboy, Urs Gasser, I. Glenn Cohen, and Mauritz Kop, click here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Predictive aging technology, how AI will affect health insurance, how to protect against agetech misuse, menopause capitalism, and medicalized aging for profit: Watch our annual conference's fourth panel here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnjq...

Expanding right to die options for older Americans, federal law and policy to support older adults, anti-discrimination employment protections, and elder abuse: Watch our annual conference's third panel here: youtu.be/KkSqH_8ZnLo?...

Last week, 60 participants gathered for a two-day intensive training on issues in psychedelics-related law, medicine, research, and policy. Sign up for our newsletter to get event updates: mailchi.mp/law/petrie-f...

How to determine biological age (and when it’s ethical to use it), growing cognitive decline among the physician workforce, modernizing Medicare for extended lifespans, and elder-targeted health care: Watch our annual conference's second panel here: youtu.be/FYeVNQGDLKc?...

Agency and capacity, decision-making by, with, and for people with aged dementia, financial decision-making in older age, and human rights protections as related to older persons: Watch our annual conference's first panel here: youtu.be/FzKWdZCIrlY?...

New comment in @thelancet.com by Alicia Ely Yamin, Emma Joanna Lengle, & @gregggonsalves.bsky.social ‬highlights the efforts coalescing across the U.S. to combat “a full-fledged assault on science and public health.” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New post on Bill of Health examines how cuts to Medicaid could affect millions of disabled and older adults: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/07/01/m...

Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci on Bill of Health: “When health care systems rely on digital tools to expand access but ignore underlying inequalities, they risk excluding the very communities they aim to serve.” petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/06/16/d...

Decolonizing Digital Health: Reclaiming Equity, Consent, and Governance in Global Health Innovation, Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci - Petrie-Flom Center petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/06/16/d...

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PFC’s Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen was invited to testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary about the implications of 23andMe’s bankruptcy filing www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac... Thank you to Inter-CeBIL and Novo Nordisk Foundation for their support in this research area

New article in @nejm.org by I. Glenn Cohen, Ifeoma Ajunwa, and Ravi B. Parikh explores increased risk that AI will be used to surveil and monitor health care workers www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.... This work was supported by funding from Novo Nordisk Foundation.

New I. Glenn Cohen article in Nature Machine Intelligence examines unregulated emotional risks of AI wellness apps: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

New on the blog: how oral health is a civil rights issue petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/06/12/o...

PFC’s Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen testified today before the full U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary about the privacy and national security implications of the 23andMe bankruptcy. Watch his testimony here: www.judiciary.senate.gov/committee-ac...

New article in Nature Digital Medicine: First-ever assessment of FDA’s oversight of AI and machine learning-based medical devices Open access here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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On the Bill of Health blog: authors examine an Israeli embryo mix-up court case attracting worldwide attention petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/05/28/w...

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A cross-disciplinary panel of experts gathered to discuss how to prevent ongoing mental health crisis from being exacerbated by the global climate emergency. The 1 hr captioned event recording is live on our YT w HPOD & @harvardgh.bsky.social Watch here: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/detai...

Congrats to Senior Fellow Stephanie Tabashneck on receiving a Master of Religion and Public Life degree from Harvard Divinity School, creating a judicial toolkit integrating science and court decision-making, and being profiled in HDS podcast Breaking the Matrix rpl.hds.harvard.edu/news/2025/05...

The bankruptcy of 23andMe has created a dilemma for the millions of customers with their DNA profiles on file. @bcmhouston.bsky.social Professors Christi Guerrini & Amy McGuire weigh the pros & cons of letting the genetics company retain your information petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/04/28/t...

GHRP welcomes 4 affiliated researchers from Argentina for the upcoming academic year. Get to know them here, along with an introduction from @aliciay.bsky.social, GHRP Director, Petrie-Flom Center: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/05/05/i...

Here is everything you need to know about our May 8 event. See the event page for full info on our interdisciplinary panel of experts. This public virtual discussion is co-sponsored by us, HPOD, & @harvardgh.bsky.social. Register here: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/detai...

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Imagine rushing to an emergency room; signing a financial responsibility contract; being treated for a heart attack; receiving a $100,000 bill. As an uninsured patient, you are responsible for its entirety. PFC Student Fellow Rupa Palanki urges reform petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/04/25/t...

Students gathered Apr 15 at @bulaw.bsky.social to celebrate the launch of our new edited volume, Health Law as Private Law: Pathology or Pathway. PFC's I. Glenn Cohen & Susannah Baruch served as panelists with several other editors and writers of the book: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/edited-volum...

Former PFC Student Fellow Bobby Stroup testified at the MA State House on April 9 in front of the legislature’s Joint Committee on Advanced Information, Technology, the Internet and Cybersecurity. Stroup spoke about H.103. Listen here: malegislature.gov/Events/Heari...

Join us May 8 for Mental Health and Climate Change: When a Global Crisis and Planetary Emergency Collide. Hosted by us, HPOD, & @harvardgh.bsky.social this virtual event will explore the interplay between climate change and psychosocial disabilities petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/detai...

Our recent lunchtime event, featuring Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz and Juvenile Law Center co-founder Marsha Levick, explored how evolutionary biology can inform juvenile justice. The full video recording of this event is now available: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/events/detai...

“Potential tariffs on pharmaceutical products will have extensive implications on supply chains, insurance costs, and access to medicines in the U.S. health care system and abroad,” writes student fellow Jessica Samuels. Read more here: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/04/14/w...

Last week, a federal judge in Texas ruled to eliminate a minimum staffing standard for nursing homes. But, as @ninakohn.bsky.social of @syracuselaw.bsky.social writes, states have quite a bit of power to regulate the industry on their own. Read more here: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/04/16/s...

We are five posts into a special digital symposium about artificial intelligence in medicine. Edited by Timo Minssen & Marcelo Corrales Compagnucci. Supported by a generous scientifically independent grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation: petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/02/18/i...

A potential new Texas law claims to “clarify” the states near-total abortion ban. But in practice, writes @amwhelan.bsky.social, it “creates new and even more concerning problems.” petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2025/04/09/t...