GHELI Senior Scholar in Residence, Alicia Ely Yamin, moderated a conversation on immigration and health care at Harvard Law School during the Petrie-Flom Center’s eighth annual Health Law Year in P/Review. The conference convened experts across health law policy, health sciences, technology, and ethics to reflect on key trends from 2019 and identify potential themes for the year ahead.
Focusing on the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border, Yamin’s panel explored how public health and law experts can evaluate the violations affecting detainee health. As one example, Francis X. Shen, the Senior Fellow in the Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience, discussed how neuroscientific evidence about the adverse developmental impacts of inhumane border detention facilities could “play a role in improving the conditions of confinement—and courtroom outcomes—of asylum seekers.” Other panels during the one-day conference focused on health reform, drug pricing, gene editing, AI and health IT.
Yamin is also the Senior Fellow in Global Health and Rights at Petrie-Flom Center, where she leads the Global Health and Rights Project—a collaboration between the Incubator and Petrie-Flom Center.