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Harvard Law School (HLS) is home to a number of faculty whose work relates closely to global health law, policy, and innovation. It features research programs on myriad topics related to global health and development, including racial justice, East Asian legal studies, environmental policies, human rights, law and economics, labor and health law, food law and policy, animal law, biotechnology and bioethics, corporate governance, entrepreneurship and venture finances, negotiation and dispute resolution, and also law and the sciences of the mind, brain, cognition, and behavior. HLS centers, institutes, and programs that engage with key aspects of global health include, for example, the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics, and the HLS Program on Negotiation.

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Featured Course

The Spring 2024 seminar course Abortion: Law, Policy and Ethics provides a space for students to discuss the difficult questions that abortion brings up in the realms of ethics, law, and policy. Students will study both sides of the issue and engage in intellectual conversation about abortion, autonomy, sex equality, politics, history, and more.

Featured Resource

This article posted on the Petrie-Flom Center Bill of Health blog explores the “Food is Medicine” movement, which refers to a range of nutrition programs that provide food to patients with diet-related chronic health conditions or risks. The article provides a brief introduction of Food is Medicine, discusses limitations of the approach, and provides a few recommendations for successful Food is Medicine initiatives.