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Expanding the Ability of Practitioners and Scholars to Assess Law as a Tool to Improve Public Health

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.

Stronger Partnerships for Safer Food

January 4, 2011 | Report

Knowledge Asset: By bringing together state and local officials, their federal counterparts and diverse stakeholders of the food safety system, this project developed an agenda for strengthening state and local roles in the food safety system.

Public Policy Versus Individual Rights in Childhood Obesity Interventions

September 1, 2011 | Journal Article

Childhood obesity is a major public health problem. Experts recommend that prevention and control strategies include population-based policies.

Advancing Public Health Practice and Policy Solutions

January 10, 2010 | 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.

Making Better Use of the Policies and Funding We Already Have

September 1, 2010 | Journal Article

The potential for population health reform could be enhanced by assessing whether we have made the cost of policies and resources already available.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Partners Launch New Public Health Law Initiative

September 21, 2010 | News Release

Experts available to provide help on issues from cross-border health to injury prevention.

A Legal Primer for the Obesity Prevention Movement

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.

Public Health Law and the Prevention and Control of Obesity

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.

CDC Held Summit to Look at how Laws are Being Used to Prevent and Control Obesity

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.