Leaders in Healthcare, Ethics, Academia, and Government Discuss Conflicts of Interest in Science and Clinical Care
Program highlights include a panel on conflicts of interest in responses to COVID-19, featuring Deborah Birx, MD, former White House Coronavirus Task Force Coordinator, and Rick Bright, PhD, former BARDA Director turned whistleblower. Other speakers include Howard Bauchner, MD, Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA); Otis Brawley, MD, Professor of Oncology, Johns Hopkins University and former head of the American Cancer Society; Arthur Caplan, PhD, Professor of Bioethics, NYU Grossman School of Medicine; and James Sheehan, JD, of the New York State Office of the Attorney General.
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New health care policies, including the most recent Medicaid redesign in Massachusetts, have incentivized the creation of partnerships between health care and community-based organizations (CBOs). Such partnerships are thought to be an important strategy to address “upstream” causes of poor health among Medicaid beneficiaries, including unstable housing and poor nutrition. Although much has been written about the potential value of these partnerships to health care organizations, much less is known about how CBOs perceive these policy changes and their organizational impact.
The session will elaborate on Lauren Taylor’s recent paper with Elena Byhoff, “Money Moves the Mare,” which explores a strategic tension faced by CBOs in deciding how to respond to new Medicaid incentives. The findings are drawn from interviews with 45 community-based organization leaders in Massachusetts. The authors find that CBOs value their autonomy and distin
The third panel,
Are the Lockdowns Moving Cases Forward? Science and Treatments, was helmed by Dr. Jayanta (Jay) Bhattacharya, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, and Dr. George Fareed, whom I had the opportunity to interview.
Dr. Bhattacharya is a Professor of Medicine and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He is a Professor of Economics and Health Research and Policy, and focuses on the researching the health and well-being of vulnerable populations. As Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Hewitt pointed out, someone with both an M.D. and Ph.D in economics “can relate to not only the damage to our health, but the damage to the health of our economy.”
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