The Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics is an interdisciplinary journal whose staff members come from all of Yale’s graduate and professional schools. The journal publishes pieces on many topics, ranging from civil rights enforcement in healthcare delivery to bioterrorism.
Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM) is a national student movement dedicated to increasing access to medicines in the developing world. Their mission is two-fold: 1) to change university licensing practices so that lifesaving medical products developed in campus labs become accessible in developing countries; and 2) to facilitate and promote research on neglected diseases—diseases that devastate poor countries, but predominantly affect those too poor to attract private sector research and development investment. UAEM believes that in both cases, universities are well-placed to make a difference. The national movement actually started here at Yale in 2001 with a successful student-led drive to make Stavudine (a medicine used in the treatment of AIDS which was developed here at Yale) available for low cost in the developing world. Building off that success, UAEM now has 35 student chapters throughout the United States and Canada.
Health Diplomacy Speaker Series
Co-sponsored with the MacMillan Center for International Affairs
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.
Rebellious Lawyering Conference
February 2008
Panels included “Hospital Flight from Minority Neighborhoods” and “Federally-Funded Ignorance: How Abstinence-Only Sex Education Fails Students”
American Constitution Society (ACS)
“Boundaries of Health” speaker series; Panel on stem cell research and policy
Career Development Office
Panels on careers in health law in the private sector (February 2008) and public sector (March 2008)