The Harvard Law School Library staff invite you to attend a book talk and discussion in celebration of the recent publication of Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics, edited by I. Glenn Cohen, Holly Fernandez Lynch, Effy Vayena and Urs Gasser (Cambridge Univ. Press, Mar. 31, 2018).
I. Glenn Cohen is the James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Urs Gasser is the Executive Director at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. This talk is co-sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics and by the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
Copies of Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics will be available for sale courtesy of the Harvard Law School COOP and Professors Cohen and Gasser will be available for signing books at the end of the talk.
Wednesday, September 12, 2018, at 4 PM
Harvard Law School WCC 2036 Milstein East B (Directions)
1585 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA
The Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics book talk is followed by the 2018 Petrie-Flom Center Open House, 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM, in the WCC Pub.
About Big Data, Health Law, and Bioethics
“When data from all aspects of our lives can be relevant to our health – from our habits at the grocery store and our Google searches to our FitBit data and our medical records – can we really differentiate between big data and health big data? Will health big data be used for good, such as to improve drug safety, or ill, as in insurance discrimination? Will it disrupt health care (and the health care system) as we know it? Will it be possible to protect our health privacy? What barriers will there be to collecting and utilizing health big data? What role should law play, and what ethical concerns may arise? This timely, groundbreaking volume explores these questions and more from a variety of perspectives, examining how law promotes or discourages the use of big data in the health care sphere, and also what we can learn from other sectors.” — Cambridge University Press
Moderator:
I. Glenn Cohen, James A. Attwood and Leslie Williams Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School
Panelists:
Urs Gasser, Executive Director at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School
Ameet Sarpatwari, Assistant Director for the Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law (PORTAL) at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Associate Epidemiologist at Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Carmel Shachar, Executive Director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School