PROFESSOR GERKE ORGANIZES A NEW SERIES ON BILL OF HEALTH
August 2021 — Professor Sara Gerke organizes a new series on Bill of Health, the blog of the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, on Direct-to-Consumer Health Apps: Ethical, Legal, and Regulatory Concerns. Bill of Health receives over 100,000 visitors per month and attracts robust readership both in the U.S. and internationally.
Direct-to-consumer health apps, such as apps that manage our fitness, sleep, and diet, are becoming omnipresent in our digital world. However, such apps also raise ethical and legal questions, ranging from data privacy and access to bias and ownership to regulation of digital health technology. To better understand and address these issues, Professor Gerke contacted key stakeholders representing a range of perspectives for their brief answers to five questions about direct-to-consumer health apps. Professor Gerke also answered these questions from a legal and ethical viewpoint. This is a series of several blog posts.
To read the first blog post on data privacy for direct-to-consumer health apps, click here.
Professor Sara Gerke is an Assistant Professor of Law at Penn State Dickinson Law. Her research focuses on the ethical and legal challenges of artificial intelligence and big data for health care and health law in the United States and Europe. Before joining Penn State Dickinson Law, Professor Gerke served as a Research Fellow in Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and Law at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics at Harvard Law School for the Project on Precision Medicine, Artificial Intelligence, and the Law (PMAIL).