Research Programs
Biotech and Bioethics
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Mental Health and Climate Change: When a Global Crisis and Planetary Emergency Collide
April 23, 2025
The range of adverse mental health effects resulting from climate change include triggering or exacerbating anxiety, depression, grief, and suicide. Natural phenomena from heatwaves and droughts to floods and fires that are fueled…
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Petrie-Flom Center Student Fellowship Drop-in Q&A
April 17, 2025
Chat about the 2025-2026 student fellowship with Petrie-Flom Center Executive Director Susannah Baruch…
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The Evolutionary Purpose of Adolescent Vulnerability: Decoding and Depathologizing Adolescent Neurobiology and Behavior
March 25, 2025
Adolescents- human and animal alike- take risks, challenge authority, and navigate social hierarchies as part of their development. In Wildhood, Dr. Barbara Natterson-Horowitz explores how these behaviors are biologically…
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Happier Hour: A Sober Curious Event
January 29, 2025
Join best-selling author and founder of the sober curious movement, Ruby Warrington, for a lunch talk and workshop on alcohol: why we drink and why…
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Sacred Rights: Psychedelics, Law, and Spirituality
January 23, 2025
Scientific and commercial interest in psychedelics is exploding. In the flood of news about drug companies, clinical trials, and state and federal regulation, one might…
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Five Years Later: A Book Talk on the events of 2020
January 17, 2025
Join the Petrie-Flom Center to reflect on a turbulent, world-changing year with an esteemed panel of experts. COVID-19, political unrest, and a societal reckoning all…
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Book Talk: The Constitution of the War on Drugs
November 7, 2024
Join us for Book Talk: The Constitution of the War on Drugs, as author David Pozen is joined by Mason Marks and Jeannie Suk Gersen to…
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Is Cash King? Insights from Cash Assistance Pilots Targeting Heath and Food Outcomes
October 17, 2024
Can direct cash payments address poverty-associated disparities in health outcomes, unmet food and nutrition needs, and strengthen a sense of community autonomy and well-being? Join…
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Event Description This academic year, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School proudly launched a new project called…
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The legalization of cannabis has raised significant questions for law and public policy. In her annual lecture, neuroscientist Dr. Yasmin Hurd explores the science of cannabis, CBD,…