Networking

The Healthcare Club creates a community of healthcare focused individuals and regularly sponsors opportunities to interact with other members, healthcare professionals, professors, and thought leaders.

Public Events / Speakers

The HBS healthcare club organizes, partners, and publicizes events that anyone can attend, these events can be found here.

PLEASE NOTE: The events, locations, dates, and time are all subject to change, please confirm with the organizer of the included Healthcare Club contact for further details.

  • The Boston Biotech Business Development Conference
    Save the Date: Tuesday April 7, 2009
    Charles Hotel, Cambridge
    The 2009 Boston Biotech Business Development Conference will provide a networking forum for industry professionals and an opportunity to gain insights from business development executives from several of the world's leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies on the current and future outlook for licensing, M&A and other business development activities in the life sciences sector. HBS students can attend at a greatly reduced rate.. Open to the public.
  • Unite For Sight 6th Annual Global Health & Development Conference
    Save the Date: Saturday and Sunday April 18-19th, 2009
    Yale University
    The Global Health and Innovation Summit convenes a committed vanguard of 2,500 people from more than 60 countries. The conference challenges students, professionals, educators, doctors, scientists, lawyers, universities, corporations, nonprofits, and others, to develop innovative solutions to achieve global goals. Open to the public.
  • World Malaria Day Commemoration Talk & Networking Reception
    4:30pm - 7:00pm, Thursday April 23, 2009
    104 Mt. Auburn St., 3rd floor, Cambridge
    Speakers: Dyann Wirth, PhD, Richard Pearson Strong Professor of Infectious Diseases and Chair of Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, HSPH; Marcia Castro, PhD, Assistant Professor of Demography, Department of Global Health and Population, HSPH; Manoj Duraisingh, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, HSPH. Please RSVP. Hosted by Harvard Initiative for Global Health. Open to the Harvard community.
  • Ethical Issues in Prioritization of Health Resources
    The Inn at Longwood Medical, April 23-24th, 2009
    This year's conference will address ethical issues in priority-setting in health care. The conference will begin with three detailed case studies drawn from recent experiences in developed and developing countries. Subsequent speakers will identify ethical issues arising in these and other priority-setting dilemmas and will explore possible resolutions. Speakers will include health officials, health policy analysts, physicians, economists, philosophers, and lawyers. Please register here. Sponsored by The Harvard University Program in Ethics & Health. Open to the public.
  • Health Law Policy, Biotechnology & Bioethics Workshop
    5:00pm - 7:00pm, April 29th, 2009
    HLS, Pound Hall
    Speaker: Alison Galvani, Assistant Professor, Yale School of Public Health. "Integrating Epidemiology, Psychology and Economics to Achieve the Effective Control of Influenza." Hosted by The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School. Open to the Harvard community.
  • Xconomy Forum: Tomorrow's Biotech - Innovators and Innovations
    1:30pm - 7:00pm, Thursday April 30, 2009
    Biogen Idec, Building 8, 15 Cambridge Center
    Through case studies, panel discussion, a keynote chat, and networking sessions, Xconomy will bring to the forefront New England's newest generation of biotech entrepreneurs and startups, as well as the region's most bleeding-edge developments from Big Biotech. Hosted by Biogen Idec. Open to the public.
  • The 2009 Ackerman Symposium on Medicine & Culture - Medical Industry, Medical Education
    1:00pm - 6:00pm, Thursday April 30, 2009
    HMS, The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, Amphitheater - Ground Floor
    Details to follow on website. Sponsored by the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine (HMS); Program in Ethics and Health (HU); Harvard Interfaculty Initiative on Medications and Society (MEDSOC). Open to the Harvard community.
  • Patient-Centered Computing and eHealth: Transforming Healthcare Quality in Boston
    May 1-3, 2009
    Sheraton Boston Hotel and Towers
    This practical course presents the work of national experts in patient‑centered computing and eHealth using a format that will enable acquisition of knowledge and skills. Through presentations, panel discussions and workshops, participants will interact with these experts about the opportunities and challenges that arise from the implementation and use of patient-centered computing. Hosted by HMS. Open to the public