Event: The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Challenges
May 4, 2011
A conference, The Globalization of Health Care: Legal and Ethical Challenges on May 20-21 is sponsored by The Petrieâ€Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics and the Harvard University Program on Ethics and Health. It will take place in Cambridge, MA at the law school. The program will address issues such as: Medical Tourism for Services Legal or Illegal in the Patient’s Home Country (e.g., Fertility Tourism, Death Tourism, Organ Tourism); Medical Migration (Brain Drain); Medical Repatriation; Parallel Drug Pricing, and Arbitrage in Pharmaceuticals across Borders; Research Tourism and Multiâ€Regional Clinical Trials; Policing Transnational Infectious Diseases and International Vaccine Development; Moral Duties to Provide Health Care Across Nations. http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/petrie-flom
