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Law for Health and Life LHL

Law for Health and Life

At the intersection of law, health and the living environment

Student Assistants contribute to AI in Healthcare Research

Student Assistants Ved Sinha and Lucie Küling recently contributed to a research project at Law Centre for Health and Life, focused on the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare.

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Prof. Anniek de Ruijter part of The Lancet Group Commission on the European Health Union

Prof. Anniek de Ruijter, director and researcher at Law Centre for Health and Life, will be one of 23 Commissioners part of the Lancet Commission on the European Health Union.

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NWO funding for Trinitas HORIZON: AI for faster and smarter diagnostics in primary care

Law Centre for Health & Life is proud to be a partner in the Trinitas HORIZON project, which has been awarded funding by NWO as part of a major national programme supporting long-term, transdisciplinary research ...

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LCHL expert invited to Dutch Parliament for presentation of open letter for more transparency in pharma sector

On Tuesday 24 March 2026, Law Centre for Health and Life researcher Dr. Katrina Perehudoff was invited to the Dutch Parliament for the presentation of an open letter on medicine price transparency

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Meet our new Communications and Community Manager, Floor Bennebroek

We are delighted to welcome Floor Bennebroek as Communications and Community Manager at the Law Centre for Health and Life (LCHL).

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New publication by dr. Mahsa Shabani on legal dimensions of health data sharing in federated networks

Law Centre for Health and Life researcher Mahsa Shabani has published the paper ‘Anonymization, accountability, and access: legal dimensions of health data sharing in federated networks’ led by Magdalena Kogut – Czarkows

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Research consortium CINPHIA develops a planetary Health Compass with a NWA grant

SEVEN researchers Anniek de Ruijter, Antonia Praetorius, Agnes Oomen and Lies Jacobs aim at improving planetary and human health outcomes by shaping policies that promote equitable human health.

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Prof. dr. Anniek de Ruijter in De Volkskrant ‘The conservative nature of the law protects us’

In an interview in De Volkskrant section ‘Het Ideaal’ with Anniek de Ruijter of Law for Health and Life on 27 February, she describes where her commitment to women’s rights and health law comes from.

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Research: Dr. Katrina Perehudoff discusses global access to medicines for persons with disabilities

Dr. Katrina Perehudoff (Law Centre for Health & Life, UvA) spoke in February 2026 at two events about her research on leveraging the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to clarify the EU's legal

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Meet our new Research Assistant Isabel Benedict

We are delighted to welcome Isabel Benedict as Research Assistant at Law for Health and Life. With a background in international law, she researches responsible and legally sound AI applications in digital health.

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Prof. Corrette Ploem: To the letter or the spirit of the law?

Prof. Corrette Ploem served as an expert witness in a court case concerning post-mortem reproduction. In the book Legal 100, Ploem describes this case and how it inspired her to write an article on post-mortem reproducti

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Publication dr. James Hazel and dr. Mahsa Sahbani: The use of the EHDS in non-EU countries.

Dr. James Hazel and dr. Mahsa Shabani from Law Centre for Health and Life together with Patricia Cervera de la Cruz, LLM and I. Glenn Cohen have published a new article in NEJM AI on the launch of the European Health

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