All 2021–2022 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. 

• September 2, 2021, "How Did the Supreme Court Just (Not) Act to Ban Abortion In Texas?," a community debrief with Executive Director Katie Kraschel and Priscilla Smita '91, co-sponsored by the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights, the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice, and Yale Health Law and Policy Society
• September 16, 2021, "A Conversation on S.B. 8, the Shadow Docket, and Reproductive Justice," with Professor Khiara M. Bridges and Stephen Vladeck ‘04, co-sponsored by the American Constitution Society
• October 21, 2021, "COVID-19 Litigation Around the World," a rountable discussion with Professor Fabrizio Cafaggi (Italy), Judge Bénédicte Fauvarque-Cosson (France), and Judge Candice Lavocat Galvão Jobim (Brazil), co-sponsored by the Yale Health Law and Policy Society
• October 25, 2021, "Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization: Roe on the Line," a panel discussion with Yale Clinical Lecturer in Law Linda Greenhouse ’78 MSL, Dean Kimberly Mutcherson of Rutgers Law, Attorney Hillary Schneller, and Yale Law Professor Reva Siegel, co-sponsored by the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice and the Yale Health Law and Policy Society
• November 2, 2021, "Bruen and a Progressive Approach to the Second Amendment," a panel discussion with Professor Joseph Blocher '06, Matt Post YC '22, and Professor Reva Siegel, co-sponsored by the Yale American Constitution Society
• November 3, 2021, "Accountability for the Opioid Crisis," a discussion with CT Attorney General William Tong and author Patrick Radden Keefe '05, co-sponsored by the Yale Health Law and Policy Society
• November 15, 2021, "The Family Roe: The People Behind the Landmark Ruling," a book talk with author Joshua Prager, Linda Greenhouse '78 MSL, and Professor Randi Epstein, co-sponsored by the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice
• December 7th, 2021, "A New Deal for Cancer: Lessons From a 50 Year War," a book launch event for a new volume co-edited by Faculty Director Abbe Gluck ’00
• February 2nd, 2022, "Coalition Building to Unlock the Therapeutic Effects of Psychedelics," a roundtable discussion with Ismail Lourido Ali (MAPS), Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Dr. Sharmin Ghaznavi, and Melissa Lavasani (Psychedelic Medicine Coalition), and Mason Marks (Moderator), co-sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School, the Yale Program in Psychedelic Science, the Yale Psychedelic Science Group, and the Yale Health Law and Policy Society
• February 15, 2022, "Yale Cancer Center Grand Rounds: A New Deal for Cancer," a Grand Rounds discussion on cancer policy, research, and innovation, including moderator Dr. Eric P. Winer, Abbe R. Gluck '00 (Co-Editor), Dr. Charles Fuchs (Co-editor), and several contributing authors to the new book. Watch the recording here.
• February 20, 2022, "Addressing the Opioid Crisis — Safe Consumption and Federal Preemption," a panel discussion with moderator Prof. Leo Beletsky (Northeastern University), Sterling Johnson (Activist), Sam Rivera (OnPoint NYC), and Dr. Kimberly Sue (YSM), co-sponsored by the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine, the Global Health Justice Program, and the Yale Health Law and Policy Society
• March 1, 2022, "FDA Hot Topics: Ask the Experts" with Dr. Aaron Kesselheim (Harvard Medical School), Dr. Joshua Sharfstein (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health), Patricia Zettler (The Ohio State University), and moderator Dr. Joseph Ross (Yale School of Medicine), co-sponsored by the Yale Health Law and Policy Society
• March 9, 2022, "Spring Spotlight Series on Prison Health: Understanding and Addressing the Occupational Health Hazards of Correctional Staff," part one in this series co-sponsored by the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law and the SEICHE Center for Health & Justice
• March 14, 2022, "Covid-19 & Disability: Sustaining Reforms for Justice", a panel discussion with Rachel Arfa (Chicago Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities), Rebecca Cockley (Ford Foundation), Jessica Roberts '06 (University of Houston Law Center), and Silvia Yee (Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund), co-sponsored by the Disabled Law Student Association and Yale Health Law and Policy Society
• March 31, 2022, "Health Law & Policy Career Night with YLS Alums," with Nicholas Oo '20, Adam Pan '19, Paul Rodriguez '11, Emma Roth '17, and Christen Linke-Young '09, co-sponsored by the Yale Health Law and Policy Society
• April 6, 2022, "Spring Spotlight Series on Prison Health: The Public Health Crisis of American Jails & Prisons," part two in this series co-sponsored by the Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law and the SEICHE Center for Health & Justice
• April 13, 2022, "The Need for Medicaid Expansion: Access, Equity and Outcomes," a panel discussion with Prof. Leonardo Cuello (Georgetown University), Laura Guerra-Cardus (Center on Budget and Policy Priorities), Eliot Fishman (Families USA), Katie Keith (Georgetown University) co-sponsored by the American Constitution Society and the Yale Health Law and Policy Society