About Us

Bill of Health was launched in September 2012 by the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School, but our bloggers come from all over the place. Our goal is to provide a one-stop shop for readers interested in news, commentary, and scholarship in the fields of health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics.

We post contributions from regular blog members (some of whom cross-post elsewhere), as well as guest bloggers.  If you are interested in the possibility of a guest blogging stint, which generally entails contributing 5-8 posts over the course of a one month period, please get in touch with Holly Fernandez Lynch, hlynch at law dot harvard dot edu.

About the Editors 

I. Glenn Cohen, Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Faculty Co-Director, Petrie-Flom Center

Holly Fernandez Lynch, Executive Director, Petrie-Flom Center

Collaborators

A number of our bloggers cross-post their material on other sites, as denoted in their individual posts.

We also formally collaborate with HealthLawProfs Blog, which cross-posts its material here, and with the Yale Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, which graciously permits us to post material from its weekly email round-up of news and commentary from the world of bioethics.

Finally, Public Health Law Research, a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation research program at Temple headed up by Scott Burris, provides us with a public health perspective, particularly with regard to empirical research on public health laws.  Follow them on:

About the Authors 

Ryan Abbott is a regular contributor. He is Associate Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School.

Nikola Biller-Adorno is an occasional contributor.  She directs the Institute of Biomedical Ethics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Currently she is a Commonwealth Fund Harkness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice.

Cansu Canca is a regular contributor.  Currently, she is a visiting fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center as well as the project coordinator for Low and Middle Income Countries at the Fogarty International Research Ethics Initiative in Turkey and Central Asia.

Art Caplan (find him on Twitter @ArthurCaplan) is the Director of the Division of Medical Ethics in the Department of Population Health at NYU Langone Medical Center.  Art cross-posts from MSNBC.com, WebMD/Medscape, and other media outlets, and will  be occasionally providing original content here.

Dan Carpenter is an occasional contributor.  He is the Allie S. Freed Professor of Government and Director of the Center for American Political Studies (CAPS) at Harvard University.

Amitabh Chandra is an occasional contributor.  He is an economist, a Professor of Public Policy, Director of Health Policy Research, Director of PhD Admissions, and Area Chair for Social and Urban Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Greg Curfman (more to come)

Judy Daar is an occasional contributor. She is the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at Whittier Law School.

Pablo de Lora is an occasional contributor.  He teaches Legal Philosophy at the Law School of the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and Bioethics at the Stanford University Program in Madrid.

Einer Elhauge is an occasional contributor. He is the Petrie Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and founding director of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics.  Follow him on Twitter @elhauge.

Richard Epstein will be cross-posting some of his material from other venues here, and occasionally contributing original content.  He is the inaugural Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law at NYU School of Law.

Nir Eyal is an occasional contributor.  He is Associate Professor of Global Health and Social Medicine (Medical Ethics) at the Harvard Medical School. His primary appointment is at Harvard University’s campus-wide Program in Ethics and Health.

Dov Fox is a regular contributor.  He is currently an Academic Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center, and has previously served as a Lecturer in Politics and Philosophy while a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford and as a law clerk for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Leslie Francis is a regular contributor. She holds joint appointments at the University of Utah as Alfred C. Emery distinguished professor of law and distinguished professor of philosophy, and adjunct appointments in Family and Preventive Medicine (in the Division of Public Health), Internal Medicine (in the Division of Medical Ethics), and Political Science. Since 2012, she has also served the College of Law as Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development. She is a contributing editor at the HealthLawProfs blog.

Daniel Goldberg is an occasional contributor.  He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioethics & Interdisciplinary Studies, The Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University.  He is an attorney, historian, and public health ethicist.  Follow him on Twitter @prof_goldberg.

Michele Goodwin is a regular contributor.  She is the Everett Fraser Professor in Law at the University of Minnesota, and holds joint appointments at the University of Minnesota Medical School and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

Rebecca Haffajee is a regular contributor.  She is currently a Fellow in Pharmaceutical Policy Research in the Department of Population Medicine of Harvard Medical School/Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.

Russell Korobkin is an occasional contributor.  He is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law.

Greg Koski is a regular contributor.  He was the first Director of the Office for Human Research Protections in the Department of Health and Human Services, and is currently Anesthetist, Cardiac Anesthesia Group, Mass General Hospital (MGH); Director of Clinical Research, Division of Cardiovascular Anesthesia, MGH; Senior Scientist, MGH/Partners Institute for Health Policy; and Associate Professor of Anesthesia, Harvard Medical School.

Katie Kraschel is a regular contributor.  She joins Foley & Lardner LLP as an associate in its Health Care Industry team in Fall 2012, and she is a 2012-2013 Harvard Medical School Division of Medical Ethics Fellow.  

Stephen Latham is an occasional contributor, and cross-posts from his Blog on Bioethics. He is Director of Yale’s Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics.  Follow him on Twitter @StephenLatham.

Ted Marmor will be providing the blog with quarterly round-ups on the debate around health care reform. He is Professor Emeritus of Yale University.

Max Mehlman is an occasional contributor.  He is Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law and Director of the Law-Medicine Center, Case School of Law, and Professor of Biomedical Ethics, Case School of Medicine.

Michelle Meyer is a Petrie-Flom Academic Fellow at Harvard Law School, currently on the law prof teaching market.  Michelle is doing some guest blogging  at The Faculty Lounge, and will be cross-posting here.  She’s also pretty active on Twitter – follow her @MichelleNMeyer.

Abby Moncrieff will be posting to the blog regularly in the fall, on hiatus in 2013, and hopefully back thereafter. She is Peter Paul Career Development Professor and Associate Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law, and Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Penn for Fall 2012.

Kevin Outterson will be cross posting on Bill of Health from The Incidental Economist.  He teaches health law and corporate law at Boston University, where he co-directs the Health Law Program. He also serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics.  Follow him on Twitter @Koutterson.

Efthimi Parasidis is a regular contributor.  He is a member of the Center for Health Law Studies and Assistant Professor at Saint Louis University.

Wendy Parmet is a regular contributor.  She is George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished Professor and Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

Frank Pasquale is the Schering-Plough Professor in Health Care Regulation and Enforcement at Seton Hall University, and a frequent blogger at Concurring Opinions and HealthLawProf Blog, where he will be cross-posting.  He is also active on Twitter @FrankPasquale.

Nicholson Price is a regular contributor. He is an Academic Fellow at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School.

Suzanne Rivera is a regular contributor.  She is the Associate Vice President for Research at Case Western Reserve University, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioethics.

Christopher Robertson is a regular contributor.  He is an associate professor at the James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona and a research associate with the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard Law School.

Susannah Rose is a regular contributor.  She is a member of the Professional Staff in the Department of Bioethics at Cleveland Clinic, and an Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University.

Al Roth blogs at Market Design and will be cross-posting his health-related content here. He is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University and in the Harvard Business School.

Ted Ruger is a regular contributor to the blog, beginning later this fall.  He is Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

William M. Sage is an occasional contributor.  He teaches law at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also serves the university as vice provost for health affairs.

Nadia Sawicki is a regular contributor (who began with us as a guest blogger in Fall 2012).   She is Assistant Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago.

Alex Smith is a regular contributor to Bill of Health, cross-posting from his blog, GeriPal. He is Assistant Professor in the Division of Geriatrics at UCSF.

Laura Stark is a regular contributor. She is assistant professor at Vanderbilt University’s Center for Medicine, Health, and Society.

Erin Talati is a regular contributor.  She is currently a Chief Fellow in Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at Boston Children’s Hospital and a Research Fellow in the Center for Outcomes and Policy Research at the Dana Farber Cancer Center.

Nicolas Terry is one of the permanent bloggers at the HealthLawProf blog, where he will be cross-posting.  He is the Hall Render Professor of Law at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law.

Katharine Van Tassel is the Editor of the Health Law Prof Blog, as well as a Contributing Editor of the blog Bio Law: Law and the Life Sciences, and will be cross-posting material here.  She is a Professor of Law at the University of Akron.

Dan Vorhaus is an attorney with Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson. He is also Editor of the Genomics Law Report, and will cross-post here.  Dan is active on Twitter – follow him @genomicslawyer.

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Student Bloggers

Petrie-Flom Center student fellows will be posting regularly here on Bill of Health.  We also have a few student interns from around Harvard.  This year’s student bloggers are:

Daniella Adler (student intern)

Adriana Benedict (student fellow)

Katie Booth (student fellow)

Cassie Chambers (student blogger)

Jonathan Darrow (student fellow)

Patrick O’Leary (student fellow)

Hyeongsu Park (student intern)

Jonathan (Yoni) Schenker (student fellow)

Casey Thomson (student intern)

Kathy Wang (student intern)

Jennifer Wong (student intern)

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Guest Bloggers

We’ll introduce Guest Bloggers as they come on board, but so far we’ve welcomed Nadia Sawicki, Christopher Robertson, and Ryan Abbott (allof whom have now joined us as regular contributors), as well as Cristiane Avancini Alves, Gaia Bernstein, Adam Kolber, William MacAskill, Anup Malani, Melissa Proctor, Elizabeth Sepper, and Joanna Sax.  Just as a preview, in the next academic year, we also expect to host: