Biotech Calendar
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Thursday, April 20, 2006
"R&D under External Consumption Effects: Applications to Global Health"
Tomas J. Philipson – University of Chicago, Harris School of Public Policy Time: 12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Location: 104 Mount Auburn Street, 3rd Floor | Cambridge
Abstract: Given the rapid growth in health care spending that is often attributed to technological change, many private and public institutions are grappling with how to best assess and adopt new health care technologies. The leading technology adoption criteria proposed in theory and used in practice involve so called “cost-effectiveness” measures. However, little is known about the dynamic efficiency implications of such criteria, in particular how they influence the R&D investments that make technologies available in the first place. We argue that such criteria implicitly concern maximizing consumer surplus, which many times is consistent with maximizing static efficiency after an innovation has been developed. Dynamic efficiency, however, concerns aligning the social costs and benefits of R&D and is therefore determined by how much of the social surplus from the new technology is appropriated as producer surplus. We analyze the relationship between cost-effectiveness measures and the degree of surplus appropriation by innovators driving dynamic efficiency. We illustrate how to estimate the two for the new HIV/AIDS therapies that entered the market after the late 1980’s and find that only 5% of the social surplus is appropriated by innovators. We show how this finding can be generalized to other existing cost-effectiveness estimates by deriving how those estimates identify innovator appropriation for a set of studies of over 200 drugs. We find that these studies implicitly support a low degree of appropriation as well. Despite the high annual cost of drugs to patients, very low shares of social surplus may go to innovators, which may imply that cost-effectiveness is too high in a dynamic efficiency sense.
Tuesday, March 21, 2006
“Killing Embryos for Stem Cell Research”
A talk by Jeff McMahan, Professor of Philosophy - Rutgers University
Presented by The Harvard University Program in Ethics and Health
Tuesday – March 21, 2006, 12:30-2:00 PM,
Ware Room – 5th floor Countway Library, Harvard Medical School
Lunch will be provided.
Plese RSVP to: ethics_health@harvard.edu or 617-432-3768
Thursday, February 16, 2006
- Uncharted Territories:Bioethics and Biotechnology in the Supreme Court
A panel moderated by Einer Elhague, Harvard Law School Featuring Daniel Brock, Harvard School of Public Health Charles Fried, Harvard Law School John Robertson, University of Texas Law School
7:00-9:00p.m. Hauser Hall 104 map Harvard Law School Dinner will be provided
Sponsored by:
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics.
The Ethics, Law and Biotechnology Society (ELaB).
Friday, February 10, 2006
- Petrie-Flom Student Fellowships - Information Session
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at HLS will be offering student fellowships for the 2006-2007 academic year and the summer of 2007. We invite 1Ls, 2Ls and Harvard graduate students interested in writing scholarly research pieces in the focus areas of the Center to an information session on Friday, February 10 at 3:00 p.m. in Pound 100.
Applications for full-year fellowships will be due April 10. For more information about the Petrie-Flom Center please visit www.law.harvard.edu/programs/petrie-flom/
3:00p.m. Pound Hall 100 Harvard Law School
Thursday, February 9, 2006
- JLME Roundtable: "Prescription Drugs: Regulatory Approval & Patients' Privacy Rights."
Join HLS students Rochelle Lee and Juliana Han to discuss their newly-published articles in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics. Casual conversation over wine and dinner hors d'oeuvres. Co-sponsored by the Ethics, Law and Biotech Society and the Law and Health Care Society, in cooperation with The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. Hauser 105, Thursday, February 9, 7:30 pm.
7:30p.m. Hauser Hall 105 map Harvard Law School
Sponsored by:
The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics.
The Ethics, Law and Biotechnology Society (ELaB).
The Harvard Law and Health Care Society (HLHCS).
