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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.
October 1, 2010 | Report
The Attorneys General of the 50 states have considerable legal authority to protect the public's health, yet their role in the development of health policy is often under-appreciated or misunderstood. This paper analyzes their current powers and provides a logic model that illustrates how the use of these powers can lead to the protection and promotion of the public's health.
September 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Childhood obesity is a major public health problem. Experts recommend that prevention and control strategies include population-based policies.
March 22, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A new post on the blog of the Network for Public Health Law by Network staff attorney Jennifer Bernstein underscores the critical need for updated housing laws that provide safer rental housing stock for tenants. Under the Uniform Residential Landlo ...
June 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A study of the current state of laws limiting drivers' use of mobile communication devices (MCDs) found that no state prohibits all types of MCD use by all types of drivers, and that laws restricting MCD use are not based on evidence about actual hazards.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...