Selected Health-Related Events

SPRING 2009 EVENTS

Panel Series:  Global Health Policy for the New Administration
Thursday, January 29th 2009
2:00pm Room 127
Keynote speaker: Professor Larry Gostin, the Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neil Professor of Global Health Law and Director of the O’Neil Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Fifteenth Annual Rebellious Lawyering Conference
When: Friday, February 20-Sunday, February 22, 2009
Health related Panels and Speakers:

Friday, February 20:

4:00-5:30pm "Lost in a Haze: Legalization and the Drug Reform Movement"
6:30-8:00pm Keynote Speaker: Van Jones, President, Green for All

Saturday, February 21:

9:30-11:00am: Conditions of Confinement: Using the Political Profess to Improve the Lives of Farm Animals
11:30am-1:00pm: Food Fight: Putting Food Policy and Agricultural Law on the Table
11:30am-1:00pm: Intersex Infants: Genital Surgery and the Movement for Informed Consent

Health Law Practice in a Law Firm Setting
When: February 17, 2009
Time: 1:10-2:00pm
Speakers: Paul Kalb ’90, Head of National Healthcare Group, Sidley Austin, DC and Sara Cooper Berkson ’03, associate in the Healthcare Group, Ropes & Gray, Boston.
Sponsored by the Career Development Office.

Careers in Health Law: The Public Sector
When: Thursday, March 5, 2009
Time: 1:10-2:00pm
Speaker: Elena Broder-Feldman ’96, FDA Office of Chief Counsel
Sponsored by the Career Development Office

“Aligning Criminal Justice and HIV Prevention”
When: Friday, February 27-Saturday, February 28, 2009
Synergizing criminal justice with public health promises to improve health outcomes, free up capacity to fight violent crime, and lead to other public benefits including cost-saving to the taxpayer. The February, 2009 event “Aligning Criminal Justice and HIV Prevention” will focus on one aspect of this larger agenda: the development of evidence-based tools to help integration of police and public health efforts aimed at high-risk populations engaged in drug use.

Faculty Tea with Professor Robert Post
When: Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Time: 12:00-1:00pm
Speaker: Professor Robert Post will discuss his recent work with The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.

“The Global Health Policy for the New Administration” January 29, 2009The conference includes a panel discussion on global health policy with panelists Jim Kim, Martin Collier and Bob Makuch, a discussion about global health policy for the new administration with members of the Transition Team from Capitol Hill, and a keynote speech by Professor Larry Gostin. The event is co-sponsored by Yale Law School Law and Health Initiative, the Yale School of Public Health, the Global Health Leadership Institute, the Health and Foreign Policy Seminar Series, and the Program in Global Health at the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.

Other Recent Health-Related Speakers and Events

• Eric Friedman, “Global Health and the Right to Health: The Current Reality and the Future” (December 2008)
• Jonathan Berger, “Patent Busters: Taking on the International IP System, One Lawsuit at a Time” (November 2008)
• Ambassador Stephen Lewis, “AIDS, Conflict, the United Nations and the Law” (April 2008)
• “Drugs, Development and Universities: Securing Access to Medicines in Developing Countries” (March 2008)
• Dr. John E. Tedstrom, “The Business of Public Health: How U.S. Health Policy Abroad Can Help Promote Economic Development & Save More Lives in the Process” (March 2008)

Panel at Yale Law School Alumni Weekend 2008: “Health Care Reform in the Next Administration: Promises and Perils?”
Over one thousand YLS alums and their guests returned to the Law School for Alumni Weekend 2008 to see classmates and to join in discussions about hot button issues such as health care. The panel featured YLS alumni Mark Barnes ’84,Troyen A. Brennan ’84 Gerald Friedland,’73, and Wendy E. Warring ’83.

“The Future of Sexual and Reproductive Rights” Conference, October 2008
Panels included “Uncomfortable Conversation: The Constitutional Law and Politics of Sexual and Reproductive Rights;” “Sexual and Reproductive Rights: Dignity, Liberty and Equality” and “Covering the Courts.” This conference brought together leading thinkers, cultural observers and journalists, including Pam Karlan, Kenji Yoshino, Dahlia Lithwick and Adam Liptak.

Rebellious Lawyering Conference
The RebLaw Conference is an annual, student-run conference that brings together practitioners, law students, and community advocates from around the country to discuss innovative, progressive approaches to law and social change. YLS has hosted the Rebellious Lawyering conference for 15 years. Past conference panels have included “Hospital Flight from Minority Neighborhoods” and “Federally-Funded Ignorance: How Abstinence-Only Sex Education Fails Students.”

Health Diplomacy Speaker Series
Co-sponsored with the MacMillan Center for International Affairs
The Health Diplomacy Speaker Series brings together scholars and leaders in fields such as international relations, medicine, law, economics, and the social sciences to give health-related issues a more prominent role in international relations and foreign policy. 


PAST EVENTS

Spring 2008

Panel:  Drugs, Development and Universities:  Securing Access to Medicines in Developing Countries
March 25, 6:10-7:30, Room 129
Sponsored by Universities Allied for Essential Medicines with Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law & Ethics and the Yale Law and Health Initiative

Lecture:  The Business of Public Health:  How U.S. Health Policy Abroad Can Help Promote Economic Development & Save More Lives in the Process
March 31, 4:30pm, Room 127
Dr.  John E. Tedstrom, executive director of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria
Co-sponsored by the MacMillan Center and the Yale Law and Health Initiative

Lecture:  AIDS, Conflict, the United Nations and the Law
April 10, 12:00pm, Room 127
Ambassador Stephen Lewis, former United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa
Co-sponsored by the Schell Center and the Yale Law and Health Initiative

Discussion:  Reaping What We Sow: How Federal Food and Farm Policy Underwrites the Obesity Epidemic
April 24, 10:30-11:30, Faculty Lounge
Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore's Dilemma and contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine
Co-sponsored by the Yale Law and Health Initiative and the Law and Media Program (LAMP)

The Mitchell Report and Beyond: Steroids, HGH, and the Future of Baseball
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Co-sponsored by the Dean's Office and YESLA

Careers in Health Law:  The Public Sector
Thursday, March 6
Cosponsored by the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics, the American Constitutional Society, and the Yale Law & Health Initiative.  
 
Mentor in Residence with David Gartner ‘99, Global AIDS Alliance
Thursday, March 6
Mr. Gartner ’99 is a senior counsel and was the policy director of the Global AIDS Alliance.  
  
Mentor in Residence with David Dorsey ‘91, U.S. Senate HELP Committee
Thursday, March 6
Mr. Dorsey ’91 works on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 

"The Center Cannot Hold:  My Journey Through Madness"
Elyn R. Saks, YLS '86,  Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the USC Gould School of Law
Thursday, February 28,
Co-sponsored by the Office of Student Affairs, Yale Law Women, and the Yale Law &  Health Initiative

Professor Robert P. George on "Embryo Ethics"
Wednesday, February 20th
Professor George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. Sponsored by Yale Law Students for Life, the Yale Federalist Society, and the Intercollegiate Studies Institute.

Rebellious Lawyering Conference: "Emerging Issues in Environmental Justice Advocacy"
Friday, February 22

Rebellious Lawyering Conference:  "Federally-Funded Ignorance: How Abstinence-Only Sex Education Fails Students"
Saturday, February 23