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May 17, 2013 | New Public Health Post
A new study in the American Journal of Public Health found that there are laws dealing with traumatic brain injuries in youth sports in 44 states and D.C.—but none are focused on preventing the injuries. Read a Q&A with the researcher, Hosea Harvey.
March 21, 2013 | New Public Health Post
State legislatures recently got underway across the country and many will be considering some critical public health law measures, according to a recent blog post from the Network for Public Health Law. Critical issues include a smoking ban in Ky.
March 22, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A new post on the blog of the Network for Public Health Law by Network staff attorney Jennifer Bernstein underscores the critical need for updated housing laws that provide safer rental housing stock for tenants. Under the Uniform Residential Landlo ...
January 24, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The Public Health Law Research Program as well as the American Society of Law Medicine and Ethics, the Network for Public Health Law and the Public Health Law Association and will be hosting a webinar on Thursday, January 26 at one p.m., looking at ...
January 23, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Jason Turner, PhD, a professor at the Saint Louis University School of Public Health, is the recipient of a Public Health Law program grant to study community benefit activities conducted by non-profit hospitals. These activities are required to mai ...
January 20, 2012 | New Public Health Post
An important session at this week Public Health Law Research (PHLR) Annual Meeting is on local lead laws and their impact on ending childhood lead poisoning. NewPublicHealth spoke with Katrina Korfmacher, Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicin ...
January 18, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Lawrence Gostin wrote two of the founding books on public health law and developed some of the most influential public health model policies of our time. NewPublicHealth spoke with Lawrence Gostin, JD, Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Gl ...
January 18, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Public Health Law Research (PHLR), a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation program at Temple University, recently held its annual meeting in New Orleans. The theme of this year’s meeting, the first such conferences open to non-grantees of the program, was ...
January 9, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A recent study in Pediatrics found that by age 23, up to 41 percent of young adults have been arrested at least once for a non-traffic offense. According to the study, early risk factors that can lead to arrests include poor academic performance, ab ...
October 28, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Update on 10/31: Scott Burris is at APHA and gave an overview this morning at the 2011 APHA annual meeting on how far the initiative has come since its inception two years ago. The program has funded somewhere between $8 and 9 million dollars in pub ...