Food loss and waste (FLW) and food insecurity are parallel issues emerging as some of the greatest food system challenges faced today and, as such, are increasingly policy priorities for governments around the world. While an estimated one-third of food produced for human consumption is lost or wasted, more than 820 million people are undernourished […]
Join CHLPI and the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable for a webinar on Monday, April 22nd from 2:30-4 pm ET about Medicaid 1115 reentry waivers and the opportunity they present to combat hepatitis C in correctional facilities. John Card, Staff Attorney at CHLPI, will present at the webinar, as well as policy experts and states who have […]
Boston University School of Law is hosting a film screening and panel discussion for The Smell of Money, which documents food injustices experienced by a rural minority community in North Carolina. Following the film screening, there will be a moderated discussion on environmental ethics, animal rights, public health, and corporate social responsibility moderated by Dr. Tyson-Lord Gray. The discussion […]
In 2019, the Lahore High Court in Pakistan declared that the government's inaction in implementing laws and policies to mitigate food loss and waste violated the Constitutional right to food. Join us as we hear from a petitioner in the case, Hafsa Ahmad (LLM '24), the barrister who argued the case, Muhammad Ahmad Pansota, and […]
On April 1, 2024, the Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School (CHLPI) and the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI) hosted “A New Way Home: Medicaid and Reentry Symposium.” Information about the Symposium, links to recordings of the sessions, and related resources are available below. The Symposium highlighted opportunities and limitations […]
Have you ordered food online lately? Join our conversation with a panel of international experts on the evolving food e-commerce landscape and how governments are (or are not) choosing to regulate it. Experts include: Dr. Pinghui Xiao, HLS Food Law and Policy Clinic Visiting Scholar and Senior Lecturer at Guangzhou University. MJ Plana Casado, PhD. […]
The Food Law and Policy Clinic recently published More Than CAFOs and Corn, a comprehensive statistical analysis of Midwestern agriculture. The 167-page report includes new data on BIPOC farmers, farmworkers, and environmental outcomes, among other pressing issues, in the six-state region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. Join the two authors, Nathan Rosenberg and […]
Momentum to integrate food and nutrition insecurity interventions into health care is poised to continue in 2024, with more providers screening for health-related social needs and connecting patients to produce vouchers, medically-tailored meals, and other Food is Medicine interventions. Health care systems are also increasingly experimenting with new ways to engage patients about government benefit […]
The 2024 Symposium of the American Journal of Law & Medicine is titled Preventive Care Law & Policy: Evolving Issues & Potential Consequences of Braidwood Management, Inc. v. Becerra. The symposium will be hosted at Boston University School of Law on February 23, 2024. Keynote speaker: Professor Abbe R. Gluck (Yale Law School, Yale Medical School). The ongoing Braidwood litigation presents […]
This webinar will help explain the CY2024 CMS physician fee schedule (aka “CMS rule”) as it pertains to Principal Illness Navigation, Community Health Integration, and Social Determinants of Health Risk Assessment codes. We will discuss what we know, what we don’t know, and how to comment on real-world implementation of these new codes. We will […]