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March 14, 2013 | Program Result Report
Researchers studied public health policies in New York City and elsewhere, including bans on transfats, limits on exhaust emissions, and taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages, to determine how best to move such policies through the political process.
October 12, 2011 | Program Result Report
Some 400 lawyers, health-related professionals and policy-makers attended the "Using Law, Policy and Research to Improve the Public's Health" conference to explore the role of law and policy in promoting global and domestic public health.
January 4, 2011 | Program Result Report
Knowledge Asset: Case studies describe the nature of the threats of litigation against public health law and provide insight into how the public health officials responded to the threats.
November 24, 2010 | Program Result Report
Researchers at Columbia University School of Nursing and the Hunter-Bellevue School of Nursing documented the scope, breadth and content of local public health ordinances and developed a blueprint for drawing up ordinances.
October 8, 2010 | Program Result Report
From November 2005 to March 2010, the Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund led a coalition of six tobacco control groups named as "public health intervenors" in a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit against tobacco companies.
September 18, 2009 | Program Result Report
The Public Health Law Association commissioned three articles published as a special supplement to the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Vol. 36, September 2008.
March 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The University of Kentucky Research Foundation held the Interdisciplinary Conference on State Law and Public Health, in Lexington, Ky., October 19-21, 2001.
November 1, 1996 | Program Result Report
Victor Fuchs, Ph.D. at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc., Washington, organized a conference to explore the public policy impact of individual and social responsibility in child care, education, medical care, and long-term care, and produced two books.
December 18, 2012 | Program Result Report
Researchers investigated existing state laws and policies that could help public health agencies win approval from the Public Health Accreditation Board.
December 9, 2009 | Program Result Report
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) held its second National Summit on Legal Preparedness for Obesity Prevention and Control in June 2008.