The New Public Health Law

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Burris ◽  
Micah L. Berman ◽  
Matthew Penn ◽  
Tara Ramanathan Holiday
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Legal Doctrine ◽  
The Core ◽  
New Public Health ◽  
Laws And Policies ◽  
Effective Development

Using a “transdisciplinary approach” to public health law, this book follows the core competencies for both law and public health programs. It reviews the basic background of the field of public health law, then introduces tools, concepts, and skills needed for effective development of public health laws and policies. The book also introduces the core legal doctrine of public health law and outlines the process for turning a public health law idea into an actionable, codified law or policy. It then turns to the challenges and key issues regulators and authorities face in implementation, enforcement, and legal and political defense against challenges. The book concludes with evaluation—explaining how legal monitoring and evaluation are integral to the cause of using law in public health and helping spread laws that work across jurisdictions, from the city level and beyond.

Educating the New Public Health Law Professional

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (S1) ◽  
pp. 35-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Davis
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Legal Education ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Teaching Approaches ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Societal Issues ◽  
New Public Health ◽  
New Public

This article outlines the author's experience designing and implementing an asynchronous online course. Designed as a complement to public health law externships at any location, the course addresses professionalism and strategic lawyering. The article further describes the author's fellowship journey, which emboldened her view that faculty must attempt to live the expectations we have for our students, and also declare our professional values, especially when teaching about policymaking which is fraught with values conflicts. It concludes with a call for others to pilot innovative teaching approaches to address both the crisis in legal education and pressing societal issues, thereby contributing to the health of our legal community.

Scientific Evaluation in Transdisciplinary Public Health Research and Practice

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott Burris ◽  
Micah L. Berman ◽  
Matthew Penn, and ◽  
Tara Ramanathan Holiday
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Public Health Research ◽  
Impact Behavior ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Scientific Evaluation ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Laws And Policies ◽  
Health Laws ◽  
Over Time

This chapter explores how public health law has evolved over time and introduces important legal processes. The chapter first describes evaluation of laws and policies through legal epidemiological principles. Then the chapter explores how to best evaluate laws and policies in order to test their effects, how they impact behavior, and whether or not they serve their purpose; the ultimate goal is to determine if the law is effectuating its purpose. Next, the chapter discusses legal mapping and policy surveillance: the process of mapping public health laws in an ongoing, systematic, scientific manner so that policymakers can catalogue laws between jurisdictions. The chapter closes with a summary of the five essential public health law services.

scholarly journals Polishing the Apple: A Holistic Approach to Developing Public Health Law Educators as Leaders of Change

2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (S1) ◽  
pp. 87-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra Gerardi
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Core Competencies ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Collaborative Partnerships ◽  
Leading Change ◽  
Public Health Medicine ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Personal Resilience ◽  
To Come

The RWJF public health law faculty fellowship provided an opportunity for legal and public health scholars to come together to develop innovative approaches for teaching public health law in schools of law, public health, medicine, and social work nationally. The fellowship program emphasized the importance of integrating individual change (personal and professional development) with organizational change as twin pillars of the core competencies necessary for advancing public health law education. This article describes the curriculum and learning formats used throughout the fellowship to guide the fellows' development in the areas of leading change, managing conflict, building collaborative partnerships, and maintaining personal resilience.

Assessing Information and Best Practices for Public Health Emergency Legal Preparedness

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (S1) ◽  
pp. 42-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clifford M. Rees ◽  
Daniel O'Brien ◽  
Peter A. Briss ◽  
Joan Miles ◽  
Poki Namkung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Small Body ◽  
Professional Associations ◽  
Original Research ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Core Element ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
New Public Health ◽  
Control And Prevention

Information is the fourth core element of public health legal preparedness and of legal preparedness for public health emergencies specifically. Clearly, the creation, transmittal, and application of information are vital to all public health endeavors. The critical significance of information grows exponentially as the complexity and scale of public threats increase.Only a small body of organized information on public health law existed before the 21st century: a series of landmark books published beginning in 1926 by Tobey, Grad (1965), and Wing (1974); model public health laws published as early as 1907; systematic reviews of original research studies published in the 1990s; and a small but growing number of articles published in public health journals and law reviews.With the new century came new public health law programs and activities at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in public health professional associations, and in numerous non-profit and academic organizations.

Guidelines for Reviewing National Public Health Law

Medicne pravo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-22
Author(s):  
Andre den Exter ◽  
◽  
Alexey Goryainov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
National Public Health

Synergising International Public Health Law and International Disaster Law

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Pratik DIXIT
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
International Health ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
Public Health Law ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Response Strategies ◽  
Public Health Crisis ◽  
International Public Health ◽  
Health Regulations

There is no time more opportune to review the workings of the International Health Regulations (IHR) than the present COVID-19 crisis. This article analyses the theoretical and practical aspects of international public health law (IPHL), particularly the IHR, to argue that it is woefully unprepared to protect human rights in times of a global public health crisis. To rectify this, the article argues that the IHR should design effective risk reduction and response strategies by incorporating concepts from international disaster law (IDL). Along similar lines, this article suggests that IDL also has a lot to learn from IPHL in terms of greater internationalisation and institutionalisation. Institutionalisation of IDL on par with IPHL will provide it with greater legitimacy, transparency and accountability. This article argues that greater cross-pollination of ideas between IDL and IPHL is necessary in order to make these disciplines more relevant for the future.

Public Health Law Research

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (6) ◽  
pp. 499-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer K. Ibrahim ◽  
Scott Burris ◽  
Scott Hays
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Law ◽  
Public Health Law
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