Join us for April’s Good Works webinar with Robert I. Field, JD, MPH. PhD, and 2018 Fulbright Specialist.
The seminar will explore the promise of new medical technologies, the risks they present to those whose data they collect, and the new ethical and legal landscape they create for medical science.
New medical technologies that vastly expand the capability to collect and store highly sensitive personal information are transforming patient care, while posing significant new threats to personal privacy.
Two technologies, in particular, present especially powerful opportunities to improve health and well-being, while undermining longstanding notions of medical ethics, law, and policy. These are genomics, which can reveal intimate aspects of a person’s physiological and psychological makeup, and neurotechnology, which can reveal conscious and unconscious thoughts and feelings.
While much of the data generated by these technologies is collected by healthcare providers and researchers, the greatest privacy risks come from private companies that sell data analysis services directly to the public.
Recent breaches in the US, at several of these companies coupled with the recent bankruptcy of one of the largest, 23andMe, reveal how tenuous data confidentiality can be.
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About our speaker
Robert I. Field is a professor of law at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law and a professor of health management and policy at the Dornsife School of Public Health of Drexel University in Philadelphia. He is also faculty director of the Law School’s Center for Law and Transformational Technology. He is an expert on risks to consumers from the collection of genetic and neurotechnology data by private companies and the legal protections that apply to them.
Robert was a Fulbright Specialist at Auckland University of Technology in 2018. He has written two books explaining the American health care system, 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.
He has a PhD in psychology from Boston University, an MPH from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health, and a JD from Columbia Law School.