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)

Past Events

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