Professor
Drexel University
Merion Station, Pennsylvania, United States
Robert I. Field is professor of law and in the Thomas R. Kline School of Law and professor of health management and policy in the Dornsife School of Public Health at Drexel University. He is also faculty director of the Law School’s Center for Law and Transformational Technology. He is the author of two books: "Mother of Invention: How the Government Created 'Free-Market' Health Care" and "Health Care Regulation in America: Complexity, Confrontation and Compromise", both published by Oxford University Press. Among his other publications are studies of ethical issues in vaccination, privacy of genetic and neurotechnology databases, racial and ethnic representation in genomic research, private equity investment in health care, and comparative health reform. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Specialist Award for teaching in New Zealand, an Erasmus Mundus scholarship for lectures in France and Denmark, and an appointment as Chaire des Ameriques from the Institut Des Ameriques de Rennes for research on health system structure in France. Before joining the Drexel faculty, he founded and chaired the Department of Health Policy and Public Health at University of Sciences in Philadelphia, where he was also professor of health policy.
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Increasing Diversity in Genetic Databases: Lessons Learned from 20 Years of Slow Progress
Wednesday, June 12, 2024
1:30 PM – 3:00 PM ET