Global Public Health Legal Responses to H1N1
March 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Pandemics challenge the law and often highlight its strengths or expose its limits.
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Upcoming Webinar: Gun Violence, Mental Illness and Firearms
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 ...
PHLR Annual Meeting: Update on Community Benefit Requirements
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 ...
Lead Laws: NewPublicHealth Q&A With Katrina Korfmacher
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 ...
Public Health Law Research Trends: Q&A With Lawrence Gostin
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 ...
Public Health Law Research Program Annual Meeting: Q&A With Scott Burris
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 ...
High Arrest Rates among Young Adults: Q&A with Dan Stier
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 ...
Scott Burris With an Update on Public Health Law: A NewPublicHealth Q&A
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 ...
Distracted Driving Laws: Upcoming Public Health Law Webinar
October 14, 2011 | New Public Health Post
How serious is the death and injury rate from distracted driving? The latest data from the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) shows that in 2009, nearly 5,500 fatalities and another half million injuries resulted from crashes ...
Network Development and Multidisciplinary Conferences for Public Health Law
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.