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November 24, 2010 | Program Result
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.
December 21, 2009 | Journal Article
Policy innovations to stimulate drug development succeed, but sometimes with unintended consequences.
October 8, 2010 | Program Result
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.
November 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Public health advocacy in the courts should be an important tool and there are several strategies to accomplish goals however, public health agendas will only be advanced in courts when public health experts partner with legal advocacy experts.
September 21, 2010 | News Release
Experts available to provide help on issues from cross-border health to injury prevention.
October 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This study looked at how changes in law shape the public health system.
October 1, 2009 | Journal Article
To help policy-makers avoid crossing constitutional boundaries, this article distilled the legal concepts most relevant to formulating policies aimed at preventing obesity: police power allocation of power among federal, state, and local governments freedom of speech property rights privacy equal protection and contract rights.
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
This article is part of a special issue on obesity in the March 2009 edition of The Milbank Quarterly, available free of charge throughout 2009 at Wiley-Blackwell.
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is supporting research into how local authorities regulate public health issues. This article presents data related to municipal statutes themselves. Future research will address how local ordinances relate to state law.
March 1, 2009 | Journal Article
A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation project created the Turning Point Act, a framework for the modernization of public health law, in 2003. The authors of this study performed a comparative analysis how four states implemented the Turning Point Act.