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The Constitutional Right to Health: Current Evidence and Debates
On March 6, 2017, the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, Schell Center for International Human Rights, Global Heath Justice Partnership, and the Yale Health Law and Policy Society hosted a lunch panel on the constitutional right to health and what this means in practice.
Solomon Center Team Challenges Short Comment Period for New Healthcare Regulation
A team of students and faculty from the Yale submitted comments to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) responding to a proposed rule to modify regulations concerning the Health Insurance Marketplaces
Black Mamas Matter
On March 1, 2017, the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, the Program for the Study of Reproductive Justice and the Global Heath Justice Partnership hosted a lunch discussion on Black Mamas Matter, a black women-led alliance working in the area of maternal health, racial disparities and justice.
Isaacs ’12 on Representing Biotech & Life Science Startups
On March 1, 2017, the Solomon Center hosted Daniel Isaacs ’12 for a coffee chat with current law students.
Center Presents Panel on Drug Courts
On February 13, 2017, the Solomon Center brought together a panel that offered insights into the strengths and weaknesses of drug courts as an approach to treating addiction and reforming the criminal justice system.
Coalition of Students Unite Against ACA Repeal
A group of medical students recently organized a campaign advocating against a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, creating a petition signed by more than 4600 medical students from 150 medical schools across the country.
Students Urge CDC to Modify Proposed Quarantine Regulations
A new Health Affairs commentary written by two Yale Law students identifies dangerous shortcomings of the proposed CDC quarantine regulations.
Prof. De Schutter Discusses Food Systems Reform
On November 30, 2016, The Food Law Society and the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy held a discussion with Olivier De Schutter, Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Professor De Schutter is also a professor at the University of Louvain (Belgium) and at SciencesPo (France) and has been a member of the UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights since 2015. He also served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food from 2008 to 2014. Professor De Schutter’s talk, “Food Systems Reform: Changing Society Without Seizing Power,” shared potential social...
Hamburg & McDonough Discuss Future of Health Reform
On November 28, 2016, the Solomon Center hosted Peggy Hamburg and John McDonough to discuss the future of health reform following the election. Hamburg served for six years as the FDA Commissioner. McDonough was one of the lead Senate staffers for the Affordable Care Act and the author of Inside National Health Reform, an account of that experience and the bill that came out of it. McDonough described the Affordable Care Act (ACA) as already having survived five near-death experiences and now facing a sixth. He believes that Congress is likely to pursue a “repeal and delay” of the ACA through...
Zeke Emanuel Speaks About Transformation in Healthcare
On October 15, 2016, the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy hosted Professor Zeke Emanuel for a talk on transformation in the healthcare system. He provided a preview of his forthcoming book on providers that have transformed how they care for patients—and offered some political and policy insights into the options that might be pursued by those who want to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Professor Emanuel is optimistic that many of the transformations he writes about have been so successful in reducing costs and improving outcomes that they could survive and spread even if the next...