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All 2016–2017 Events

Events and conferences at the cutting edge of health law and policy are held every month of the academic year, including a series of events focused on domestic health policy and health care issues, driven in part by the passions of interested students. Below is a list of events planned for the 2016-2017 academic term. 

2016–2017 Full Schedule

  • September 19, 2016, 12:00-1:30: Panel Discussion on Antibiotic Resistance (Room 129), cosponsored with the Global Health Justice Partnership
  • September 20, 2016, 7:30-9:20: Alumni Breakfast on Protecting Seniors from Financial Abuse with Stephen Deane, Natalie Denburg, Thomas M. Mierswa, Jr, and Judith M. Shaw (The Century Association, 7 W. 43rd St, New York, NY 10036), cosponsored with the Center for the Study of Corporate Law
  • September 26, 2016, 12:10-1:30: The Legal Causes of—and Solutions to—the Drug Price Problem, with Aaron Kesselheim, Amy Kapczynski, Sara Emond (Room 121), cosponsored with the Global Health Justice Partnership and Yale Health Law & Policy Society
  • September 28, 2016, 12:10-1:30: SCOTUS Talks Abortion: Unpacking the Supreme Court’s Decision in Whole Woman’s Health, with Linda Greenhouse, Reva Siegal, Cilla Smith, and Stephanie Toti (Room 120), cosponsored with Yale Health Law & Policy Society, Yale Law Students for Reproductive Justice, Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice, and the American Constitutional Society
  • October 4, 2016, 6:30-8:30: The Opioid Epidemic: Criminal Justice, Public Health and the Changing Face of Addiction with R. Douglas Bruce, Matt Curtis, David Fiellin, Daryl McGraw, and Ece Tek (Yale Medical School Historical Library, 333 Cedar St.), cosponsored with the US Health Justice Collaborative
  • October 4, 12:10-6:30 pm: Transforming the Global Economic Order: Understanding Critical Perspectives on the TPP, with U.S. Representative Rosa DeLauro, Lori Wallach of Public Citizen, Dean Baker of the Center for Economics & Policy Research, and representatives of Doctors Without Borders, the Sierra Club, and AFL-CIO (Room 127 and Auditorium), cosponsored with the American Constitutional Society, Global Health Justice Partnership, and Rockefeller Brothers Fund and Transitions Clinic
  • October 17, 2016, 6:00-7:00: Law and Ethics of Assisted Reproduction with Rich Vaughn and Professor Doug NeJaime (Room 124), cosponsored with Yale Law Students for Reproductive Justice and OutLaws; followed by Health Law Happy Hour in the Alumni Reading Room
  • October 20, 2016, 12:00-1:30: Harm Reduction, Reproductive Justice and Democratic Action (40 Ashmun, A436 Conference Room), cosponsored with the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice and the Global Health Justice Partnership
  • October 21, 2016, 4:00-5:00: Student Mentoring Tea with Alex Azar (YLS 1991), President of Lilly USA, LLC (Room 111), cosponsored with the Yale Health Law & Policy Society and the Yale Federalist Society
  • October 22, 2016, 9:30-10:30: Student Mentoring Breakfast with Frank Pasquale (YLS 2001), University of Maryland Professor of Law (K190A), cosponsored with the Yale Health Law & Policy Society
  • October 22, 2016, 10:30-11:45: Alumni Reunion Panel: “Health Law Policy, Politics, and Progress: What Lies Ahead” (Levinson Auditorium)
  • October 25, 2016, 6:10-7:30: Book Talk: Commissary Kitchen: My Infamous Prison Cookbook with Albert “Prodigy” Johnson and Kathy Iandoili, moderated by Dwayne Betts (Room 120), cosponsored with the Yale Food Law Society and Yale Health Law and Policy Society
  • October 28, 2016, 12:10-1:30: Shoring Up the Exchanges: Insurer Withdrawals, the Public Option and the Path Forward with Jacob Hacker, Timothy Jost, Len Nichols, and Judith Solomon, moderated by Abbe Gluck (Room 129), cosponsored with the National Academy of Social Insurance
  • November 3, 2016, 6:00-7:00: Scientific Evidence in the Courtroom with Judge Rakoff, Dan Kahan, Nina Morrison (Room 129), cosponsored with the Yale Health Law & Policy Society and Collaboration on Research Integrity & Transparency
  • November 7, 2016, 12:00-1:30: Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care—A Talk with Dayna Matthew (Room 129), cosponsored with the Yale Health Law & Policy Society and Black Law Student Association
  • November 7, 2016, 6:45-8:30 pm, Racial Bias in Health Care—A Talk with Dayna Matthew (Medical School, Beaumont)
  • November 10, 2016, 12:10-1:30: Transgender Litigation and Administrative Law with James Blumstein (Vanderbilt Law, Professor of Health Law and Policy), David Dinielli (Southern Poverty Law Center), and Hillary Schneller (Center for Reproductive Rights) and moderated by Professor Doug NeJaime (Room 122), cosponsored with the Yale Health Law and Policy Society, American Constitutional Society, Federalist Society, and Outlaws
  • November 14, 2016, 12:10-1:00: Lunch with Joe Leonard, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights, USDA (Room 112), cosponsored with the Yale Food Law Society
  • November 15, 2016, 2016: 12:10-1:30: Levers of Transformation in Health Care and Delivery System Reform- Talk with Zeke Emanuel (Faculty Lounge, Room 208)
  • November 16, 2016, 12:10-1:30: Summer Jobs in Health Law Panel, cosponsored with Yale Health Law & Policy Society
  • November 17, 2016, 12:00-1:00: Lunch discussion with Andrea Freeman (University of Hawaii) on health, economics, and food policy (Room 110), cosponsored with the Yale Food Law Scociety
  • November 28, 2016, 12:10-1:30: Health Care Reform After the Election: The ACA, FDA, and Beyond: Talk with John McDonough and former FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg (Room 129)
  • November 30, 2016, 12:10-1:00: Food Systems Reform: Changing Society Without Seizing Power with Olivier De Schutter (Room 122), cosponsored with the Yale Food Law Society
  • February 13, 2017, 12:10-1:30: Drug Courts: Addressing Addiction and Mass Incarceration with Judge Janet Bond Arterton, Aaron Arnold from the Center for Court Innovation, Eric Sevigny from Georgia State University, and Denise Tomasini-Joshi from the Open Society Foundations (Room 129), cosponsored with the Yale Health Law & Policy Society, American Constitutional Society, and Global Health Justice Partnership 
  • February 16, 2017, 12:10-130: The Three C’s of Progressive Reform with Deborah Peterson Small (Room 127), cosponsored with the Yale Health Law & Policy Society, Global Health Justice Partnership, and American Constitutional Society
  • March 1, 2017, 12:10-1:00: Black Mamas Matter: Maternal Mortality and Racial Disparities in Maternal Care with Elizabeth Dawes Gay and Kwajelyn Jackson (Room 129), cosponsored with the Global Health Justice Partnership, Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice, American Constitutional Society, Black Law Students Association, Law Students for Reproductive Justice, Schell Center for International Human Rights, and Yale Health Law & Policy Society
  • March 1, 2017, 3:10-4:00: Coffee Chat with Daniel Isaacs (YLS ’12) from Goodwin Proctor, LLP (Room 110), cosponsored with the Yale Health Law & Policy Society, Law & Business Society, and Law & Tech Society
  • March 3, 2017, 9:30-4:30: Medical-Legal Partnership Symposium (Auditorium), cosponsored with the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law and Ethics, Yale Health Law & Policy Society, and US Health Justice Collaborative 
  • March 6, 2017, 12:10-1:30: The Constitutional Right to Health: Current Evidence and Debates with Matthew Kavanagh and Natalia Pires de Vasconcelos (Room 121), cosponsored with the Yale Health Law and Policy Society, Global Health Justice Partnership, and the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights
  • March 6, 2017, 2:00-3:00: Coffee Chat with Matthew Kavanagh (Room 108, cosponsored with the Yale Health Law and Policy Society, Global Health Justice Partnership, and the Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights)
  • March 6, 2017, 4:30-5:30: Haven MLP Volunteer Appreciation (Box 63)
  • March 7, 2017, 6:00-7:30: YHeLPS and Solomon Center Happy Hour (Mory’s), cosponsored with the Yale Health Law & Policy Society
  • March 23, 2017, 12:10-1:00: Practicing Health & FDA Law: A Panel Discussion with Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer (Baker Hall A005), cosponsored with the Yale Health Law & Policy Society
  • April 10, 2017, 12:10-1:10: The Ongoing Dilemma of Health Insurance: What’s New and What’s Not with Brian Sullivan (YLS alum), former VP and General Counsel of Capital Blue Cross (SLB 112), cosponsored with the Yale Health Law & Policy Society
  • April 13, 2017, 12:10-1:00: Addressing Sugar Consumption and Barriers to Reform with Prof. Jennifer Pomeranz from NYU (Room 121), cosponsored with the Yale Food Law Society and Yale Sustainable Food Program
  • April 18, 2017, 12:10-1:00: Reducing Food Waste: Policy Solutions for People, Planet and Profit with Emily Broadlieb, Assistant Clinical Professor and Director of the Food Law and Policy Clinic at Harvard Law School (Room 127), cosponsored with the Yale Food Law Society and Yale Sustainable Food Program
  • April 18, 2017, 6:15-7:45: The Attention Merchants: Book Talk with Tim Wu (Room 129), cosponsored with the Yale Health Law & Policy Society, Asian Pacific American Law Students’ Association, and Information Society Project
  • April 19, 2017, 12:10-1:00: Medical Legal Partnership Information Session (Room 122), cosponsored with the Yale Health Law & Policy Society
  • April 20, 2017, 12:10-1:30: Reimagining Biopharma: A Conversation with Vivek Ramaswamy (YLS 2013), CEO, Roivant Sciences, Inc. (Faculty Lounge), cosponsored with the Center for Corporate Law 
  • April 20, 2017, 6:00-7:00: Careers in Health Law Alumni Panel with Caroline Fox (YLS ’99), Counsel of IBM Watson Health; Katherine L. Kraschel, Associate Counsel for the Yale New Haven Health System and Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School; Karen Porter (YLS ’89), Associate Professor of Clinical Law at Brooklyn Law; and Adam Yoffie (YLS ’11) with the Department of Justice Health Care Fraud Task Force, cosponsored with the Yale Health Law & Policy Society
  • June 1, 2017, 8:00-9:30:  Boston-Area Alumni Breakfast on Health Reform, Law and Policy under the Trump Administration with William Baer (Former Acting Associate Attorney General and Former Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, US Department of Justice), Roberta Herman (Executive Director of the Massachusetts Group Insurance Commission), and Peter Leibold ’88 (Chief Advocacy Officer for Ascension Health) and moderated by Prof. Abbe Gluck (Ropes & Gray, Prudential Tower, 800 Boylston Street, Boston, MA)