[Yls-lawandhealth] YLS Law and Health Announcements

[Barnett, Megan]

Yale Law School Law and Health Initiative


            If you have events or other announcements you would like to share, please send them to yls-lawandhealth at mailman.yale.edu<mailto:yls-lawandhealth at mailman.yale.edu>.


I.  Health-related events at YLS this week:

1)  Tuesday, April 22

Professor Yvonne Cripps, Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law
"Gene Patents: Where Property, Intellectual Property and Information Meet"
12:10p - 1:30p
Room 120
Lunch and presentation to be followed by Q&A

This talk will address questions concerning the effect of latest developments in genomics and gene patents, with particular reference to the meaning and scope of patents on human genes and what constitutes infringement.  Public and private law will also meet here with some discussion of constitutional issues.
Sponsored by the ISP.

2)  Tuesday, April 22

Farm Subsidies Panel:

Michael Roberts, Agricultural Economist, Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture

Jim Lyons, Vice President for Policy and Communications, Oxfam America
1:10 PM to 2:00 PM
Rm 124

Non-pizza, Passover-friendly lunch served.
Co-Sponsored by ACS/YELA


3)  Wednesday - April 23

Professor Michael J. Sandel, Professor of Government, Harvard University
presenting his new book
The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering
4:15-6:00 pm
Yale Law School, Room 127
Light refreshments will be served
Co-sponsored by The Yale Information Society Project and Yale's Interdisciplinary
Center for Bioethics

4)  Thursday, April 24

Michael Pollan, Knight Professor of Science and Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley and author of  In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
"Reaping What We Sow: How Federal Food and Farm Policy Underwrites the Obesity Epidemic" - A Conversation
10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Yale Law School Faculty Lounge
Co-sponsored by Yale Law School Law and Health Initiative<http://www.law.yale.edu/academics/lawandhealth.htm>, the YLS Law and Media Program, and CitySeed<http://www.cityseed.org/>.

Please note that there is limited seating for this event, and priority will be given to Yale Law School and Yale School of Public Health students.  To reserve your spot, or for more information, please contact shaan.chaturvedi at yale.edu<mailto:shaan.chaturvedi at yale.edu>.

II.  Health-related events around the University:

5) April 21 - Monday
Time: 12:00 pm
Location: Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Sponsor: George Walter Leitner Program in International and Comparative Political Economy
Speaker: Professor Peter Swenson
Topic: Brought to Heal: Reluctant Doctors and the Politics of Medical Reform in America

6) April 23 - Wednesday
Time: 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: Auditorium, The Anlyan Center, 300 Cedar Street
Sponsors: Office of Cooperative Research / CURE
Topic: Yale BioHaven Entrepreneurship Series Featuring Vidus Ocular Inc.
(Registration required: 203-785-6209 or biohaven at yale.edu<mailto:biohaven at yale.edu>.  For more information, visit www.yale.edu/ocr/news/biohaven.html<http://www.yale.edu/ocr/news/biohaven.html>)

7) April 23 - Wednesday
Time: 5:00 pm
Location: Room 101, Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street
Sponsor: Saybrook College
Speaker: Mark Bittman
Topic: Food Matters - A Look at Eating, Agriculture and Global Warming

8)  April 24 - Thursday
"China's Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic"

Zunyou Wu, M.D., Ph.D., Director
National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention
Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Beijing, China

LEPH Room 101, 60 College Street, New Haven
Thursday, April 24, 2008
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

RSVP: Nicole.whitcher at yale.edu<mailto:Nicole.whitcher at yale.edu>
For further information, email Nicole Whitcher at the above address or call 203-764-4337.

9)  April 25 - Friday
Genetically Modified Plant Symposium: "Alternative Paths to Agricultural Sustainability"
(sponsored by the Genetically Modified Plant Study Group)
Time: 1:00 pm
Location: 305 Bass Hall, 266 Whitney Avenue
Speakers: Michael Edgerton, Technical Lead for Corn Ethanol and Quality Traits, Monsanto Corporation; Nina Fedoroff, Evan Pugh Professor of Biology, Pennsylvania State University, and Science and Technology Advisor to the United States Secretary of State; Prabu Pingali, Director, Agricultural and Developmental Economics Division, FAO, and Gates Foundation
(Reception immediately following. For further information, reservations, and agenda, contact <carol.pollard at yale.edu<mailto:carol.pollard at yale.edu>> or <nancy.kerk at yale.edu<mailto:nancy.kerk at yale.edu>>.)



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