The Petrie-Flom Center

What The Petrie-Flom Center does

The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics is a non-profit academic research center housed at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, founded in 2005 through a gift from Joseph H. Flom and the Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation. The Center conducts interdisciplinary research, publishes scholarship, and convenes experts on health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics, serving a horizontal audience of legal scholars, policymakers, healthcare executives, patient advocates, and the general public. Its core outputs are content- and convening-based rather than product-based: the Bill of Health blog (reaching nearly one million views per year), the Petrie Dishes Podcast, the peer-reviewed open-access Journal of Law and the Biosciences co-ventured with Duke and Stanford universities, annual edited volumes, a biweekly newsletter, and several sponsored research projects including PMAIL/Inter-CeBIL (precision medicine and AI law, with the University of Copenhagen), the Global Health and Rights Project, the Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience, and the Project on Advanced Care and Health Policy.

The Center does not sell commercial products or services; all offerings are free and publicly accessible. Its revenue is composed of foundation grants (notably multi-year Novo Nordisk Foundation funding for PMAIL, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation support for the podcast, and Brocher Foundation workshop grants) and philanthropic donations. The Center maintains a small core staff of approximately 11–50 individuals led by Faculty Director I. Glenn Cohen and Executive Director Susannah Baruch (since June 2023), supplemented by postdoctoral fellows, visiting scholars, and student fellows. A 2026–2027 academic-year pause of the Student Fellowship and Visiting Scholar programs is scheduled due to the Faculty Director's planned leave, representing a temporary operational contraction in the training pipeline.

Name

The Petrie-Flom Center

Legal name

The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School

Website

https://petrieflom.law.harvard.edu

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Petrie-Flom Center is a non-profit academic research center at Harvard Law School that conducts research, publishes scholarship, and convenes events on health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics for scholars, policymakers, industry leaders, and the public.

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Academic Research and Policy Institute

NAICS

Research and Development in the Social Sciences and Humanities (541720), Book Publishers (513130), Periodical Publishers (51312), Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services (5416)

SIC

Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731), Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721), Services-Commercial Physical & Biological Research (8731)

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Law & Legal Studies Research Universities

Education/Higher Education (Colleges & Universities)/Private Research Universities

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Medical, Clinical & Biomedical Scholarly Publishing

Education/Educational Publishing & Learning Content/Academic & Scholarly Publishing (Journals, Monographs)

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Open Access Scholarly Journals & Monographs

Education/Educational Publishing & Learning Content/Academic & Scholarly Publishing (Journals, Monographs)

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Medical & Clinical Reference (Physicians, Nursing, Allied Health)

Education/Educational Publishing & Learning Content/Professional & Technical Reference Publishing

Keywords

• Health law research
• Bioethics scholarship
• Biotechnology policy
• Academic legal publications
• Health policy fellowships

Headquarters

HQ city

Cambridge

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

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B2B

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Services

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Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Foundation and Grant Funding: Research initiatives are funded through grants from foundations such as the Novo Nordisk Foundation (for PMAIL/Inter-CeBIL project), Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation (for podcast), Brocher Foundation (for workshops), and others. The Center receives grants for specific research projects on AI in healthcare, psychedelics law, and other topics.
2. Donations: The Center accepts donations from individuals and organizations to support its work in health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics research and public engagement.

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Core offering

The Petrie-Flom Center is a non-profit academic research center at Harvard Law School that produces interdisciplinary scholarship, publications, and convenings on health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics. Its offerings include the Bill of Health blog, the Petrie Dishes Podcast, the Journal of Law and the Biosciences, annual edited volumes, sponsored research projects, fellowships for students and visiting scholars, and invitation-only roundtables with healthcare industry general counsels.

Product overview

The Petrie-Flom Center is a research center at Harvard Law School, not a product company. It operates as a platform of scholarly programs including the Bill of Health blog, the Petrie Dishes Podcast, the Journal of Law and the Biosciences (co-published with Duke and Stanford), annual Edited Volumes, a biweekly Newsletter, and Student Fellowship Programs. The Center also conducts multiple sponsored research projects including PMAIL (on AI and precision medicine), the Global Health and Rights Project, the Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience, and the Project on Advanced Care and Health Policy. These offerings function as an integrated scholarly ecosystem rather than a commercial product portfolio.

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Brands

• PMAIL/Inter-CeBIL: Project on Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law - a collaborative research project with the University of Copenhagen
• GHRP
• Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience
• Project on Advanced Care and Health Policy
• Journal of Law and the Biosciences

Products and services

• Bill of Health Blog
• Petrie Dishes Podcast
• Journal of Law and the Biosciences
• Edited Volumes
• PMAIL Research Project
• Global Health and Rights Project (GHRP)
• Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience
• Project on Advanced Care and Health Policy
• Biweekly Newsletter
• Student Fellowship Program

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Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) Center for Policy & LeadershipminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 June 2026The 2026 Annual Conference on Embryo Law and Ethics was sponsored by the Petrie-Flom Center with support from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine (ASRM) Center for Policy & Leadership.
• Graduate School of International Affairs at the New SchoolminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025In 2025, GHRP collaborated with the Graduate School of International Affairs at the New School on a multidisciplinary project on 'New Multilateralism for Global Health Equity,' which will continue into 2026.
• Harvard Global Health InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024In 2024, the Global Health and Rights Project (GHRP) was selected by the Harvard Global Health Institute to lead an Inter-faculty scholarly working group on 'Advancing Global Health Justice.' The SWG was renewed for a second year at the end of 2025 and includes professors from TH Chan School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School.
• Centre for Advanced Studies in Bioscience Innovation Law (CeBIL) at University of CopenhagencoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2018Launched in early 2018, the Project on Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law (PMAIL/Inter-CeBIL) is a collaboration between Petrie-Flom Center and CeBIL to understand the frontiers of big data in health care diagnostics through interdisciplinary analysis. In November 2023, a second five-year grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation was announced to continue the collaboration under the International Collaborative Bioscience Innovation & Law Programme (Inter-CeBIL).
• Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 March 2016The Project on Advanced Care and Health Policy is a collaboration between the Petrie-Flom Center and C-TAC, a non-partisan, non-profit alliance of over 130 national organizations dedicated to transforming advanced illness care. C-TAC provides the project with a framework for advanced care based on evidence-based best practices.
• Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Law, Brain and Behavior (CLBB)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2014The Project on Law and Applied Neuroscience is a collaboration between the Petrie-Flom Center and MGH's Center for Law, Brain and Behavior. The collaboration includes a Senior Fellow in residence, public symposia, and a Law and Neuroscience Seminar at Harvard Law School taught by Judge Nancy Gertner.
• Duke UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Journal of Law and the Biosciences is a co-venture between Duke University, Harvard Law School, and Stanford University, published by Oxford University Press as the first fully open-access, peer-reviewed legal journal focusing on biosciences and law.
• Stanford UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Journal of Law and the Biosciences is a co-venture between Duke University, Harvard Law School, and Stanford University, published by Oxford University Press as the first fully open-access, peer-reviewed legal journal focusing on biosciences and law.

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Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

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