Petrie-Flom Center (PFC) — A Harvard center dedicated to interdisciplinary research and debate of cutting-edge issues in health law policy, biotechnology, and bioethics.
In 2005, with a generous gift from Joseph H. Flom ’48 and the Petrie Foundation, the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics was founded to respond to the need for leading legal scholarship in these fields.
The founding vision of the Petrie-Flom Center is to promote scholarly inquiry that breaks away from existing disciplinary lines and brings the totality of these disciplinary methodologies under its compass. To achieve this goal, the Center fosters the growth of a community of leading intellectuals from a variety of backgrounds and at all stages in their careers. This environment created by the Center will produce scholarship that addresses the true legal, social and ethical challenges presented by issues at the intersection of health and law. The Center is not an advocacy center, but is dedicated to the non-partisan promotion of important new ideas and empirical findings.
