Setting Priorities in Allocating Health Resources
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Join us for this special hybrid Ethics Exchange event with Ole F. Norheim, Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Ethics and Population Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, with an introduction by Becca Brendel, Director of The Center for Bioethics. To register for in person attendance, use the link above. To register for online attendance, use the link below.
About the speaker:
Ole F. Norheim is the Mary B. Saltonstall Professor of Ethics and Population Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He co-founded the Bergen Centre for Ethics and Priority Setting in Health at the University of Bergen, Norway, and is an Adjunct Researcher at the Centre.
Norheim’s wide-ranging research interests include theories of distributive justice, inequality in health, how they apply to priority setting in health systems, and how to achieve Universal Health Coverage and the Sustainable Development Goal for health. He firmly believes that priority setting for health should aim for the greatest number of healthy life years for all, fairly distributed
Norheim is Lead Series Editor of Disease Control Priorities (published by the World Bank), a member of the Lancet Commission on Investing in Health (CIH3) and the Lancet Commission on Sustainability in Healthcare (LCSH). Norheim has chaired the 2009 revision of Norwegian Guidelines for Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease, the World Health Organization’s Consultative Group on Equity and Universal Health Coverage (2012-2014), and the third Norwegian National Committee on Priority Setting in Health Care (2013-2014). He has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers in journals such as the Nature Medicine, Science, Lancet, Lancet Global Health, BMJ, Bulletin of WHO, Health Policy and Planning, and Journal of Medical Ethics.
About The Ethics Exchange
Ideas take on a different shape when they’re shared around a table. The Ethics Exchange gathers our community over lunch in the Dennis F. Thompson Seminar Room to think aloud about questions that matter. Building on the traditions of Ethics in Your World and Ethics Mondays, the series alternates between two formats: some sessions are open conversations, guided by a short reading or prompt; others feature invited speakers who share their work before opening the floor for dialogue. The aim is not to deliver neat answers but to create a space for genuine exchange—of ideas, perspectives, and disagreements—in an informal and engaging setting. Come with curiosity, and leave with sharper questions, new connections, and of course, full bellies.
This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required for online and in person attendance.
All attendees must agree to the Chatham House Rule: participants are free to use information received, but neither the identity nor the affiliation of the speakers may be revealed.
This event is co-sponsored by The Center for Bioethics.