CHDS Seminar with Dr. Alicia Yamin: Meaningful Citizen Participation in Health Priority-Setting

Abstract: A broadly held view within health priority setting research stresses the importance of promoting legitimate decisions, based on both reasonable values and transparent and inclusive decision-making processes. Daniels and Sabin’s influential framework Accountability for Reasonableness (A4R) captures the important elements of procedural fairness. Nonetheless, A4R does not specify the conditions for its own implementation. This talk will explore ongoing research and work on managing both the epistemic reasonableness of decisions and stakeholder inclusion, which have posed challenges to meaningful participation on health priority-setting.

Bio: Alicia Yamin is currently a Lecturer on Law and the Senior Fellow on Global Health and Rights at the Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology and Bioethics at Harvard Law School, and affiliated with the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Partners In Health, and Bergen Center on Ethics and Priority Setting. She is a member of the WHO Technical Advisory Group on ‘Health Technology Assessments’ and the joint World Bank/Norwegian Institute for Public Health/Bergen Centre on Ethics and Priority Setting Project on ‘Health Financing for Universal Health Coverage.’