Five Legal Preparedness Challenges for Responding to Future Public Health Emergencies
March 1, 2011 | Journal Article
The 2009 H1N1 pandemic provided an unprecedented opportunity to implement and exercise many of these mechanisms.
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Right to Health Litigation and HIV/AIDS Policy
March 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Domestic litigation has become a principal strategy for realizing international treaty obligations for the human right to health, providing causes of action for the public's health and empowering individuals to raise human rights claims for HIV prevention, treatment and care.
The Role of Federal Preemption in Injury Prevention Litigation
March 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Building safety into a product or environment—especially in ways that require little or no user action to confer protection—is often more effective than trying to change consumer behavior.
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
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.
NewPublicHealth Q&A: Jon Vernick on Helmet and Speed Laws
September 1, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Do motorcyclists in your state need to wear helmets? That can depend on the year, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). According to the CDC, states have cycled from near universal helmet law coverag ...
Strengthening and Enforcing Public Health Law
July 21, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Do you work in a local health department? Please share stories from your departments here with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Public health agencies across the country are looking increasingly to the law as a tool to help achieve their missions ...
Time in the Shade: Protecting Workers from Heat Illnesses is the Law
July 13, 2011 | New Public Health Post
The heat advisory released today from the National Weather Service, which notes that “from the southern Plains to the Atlantic coast, conditions will remain dangerously hot through at least the end of the work week,” comes with an additional advisor ...
Role of State Attorneys General in Health Policy
September 22, 2010 | Journal Article
State attorneys generals have increasingly supported health and health care through litigation, investigative activities and policy reform work. Looking forward they will play an important role as reform moves out of the legislative arena.