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March 10, 2011 | Journal Article
The Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 (ISDEAA, PL 93-638) allows tribes to assume the management and control of health care programs from Indian Health Service (IHS) and to increase flexibility in health care program development.
January 4, 2011 | Issue Brief
Under its Advancing Public Health Policy and Practice solicitation, RWJF funded 16 projects and the Center for Creative Leadership produced Knowledge Assets that synthesize the work and learnings from these projects.
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.
January 4, 2011 | Report
Knowledge Asset: An ongoing study examines the breadth of local public health decision-making authority and describes how local public health ordinances fill gaps in or supplement existing state and federal public health ordinances.
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.
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.
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.
May 31, 2000 | Program Result Report
Investigators at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, Madison, Wis., used legal, social, and economic analyses to assess the feasibility, benefits, and costs of alternative private law strategies to enhance and upgrade control of tobacco.
December 1, 2007 | Program Result Report
Investigators at the University of Virginia created a fellowship program and a problem-based curriculum on public health law and ethics for law students and Master of Public Health candidates.