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Health Law Policy
Changing How We Think (and Talk) About Public Health Law
By Scott Burris, JD Marice Ashe, Donna Levin, Matthew Penn, Michelle Larkin and I have a new piece in the Annual Review of Public Health (also available on SSRN). We set out a “transdisciplinary model…
Changing How We Think (and Talk) About Public Health Law
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Health Law Policy
Job Opportunity: Legal Research Associate
Come join our team! The Public Health Law Research program is hiring legal research associates to work on our policy surveillance project. The legal research associate will conduct legal research using Lexis and Westlaw, build…
Job Opportunity: Legal Research Associate
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Health Law Policy
Tennessee: The Next State to Require Involuntary Outpatient Commitment?
By Bryan Kozusko, JD (Expected graduation: May 2016) How will Tennessee address involuntary outpatient commitment hereon out? Currently, Tennessee is one of seven states that does not provide for direct involuntary outpatient commitment, pending a…
Tennessee: The Next State to Require Involuntary Outpatient Commitment?
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Health Law Policy
Second Amendment Rights and Mental Illness
Editor’s Note: An updated of this post was published on March 6, 2017, entitled “The Balancing Act Between Mental Illness and Gun Rights.” By Mariam Ahmed, JD/MSPP (2016) In recent years, there have been a…
Second Amendment Rights and Mental Illness
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Health Law Policy
A needle in a haystack – finding the elusive solution to Indiana’s HIV Outbreak
By Nicolas Wilhelm, JD Scott County, Indiana, which only has a few thousand residents, has historically had an average of five HIV cases per year. Since December 2014, however, the county has seen an outbreak,…
A needle in a haystack – finding the elusive solution to Indiana’s HIV Outbreak
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Announcements
Webinar, 5/6: Policy Surveillance and Public Health
May 6, 2015 at 12 p.m. ET Policy surveillance is the ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and dissemination of data about laws and policies. There is a long tradition of conducting “50 state surveys” to identify…
Webinar, 5/6: Policy Surveillance and Public Health
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Health Law Policy
Building on 20 Years of Success: The Future Role of Law
By Scott Burris, JD On this, the last day of National Public Health Week 2015, we’re looking forward by looking backward. There is nothing new about using law and policy to promote healthier environments, products…
Building on 20 Years of Success: The Future Role of Law
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Health Law Policy
Making Connections & Collaborating for the Future of Public Health
As part of the Public Health Law Research program’s participation in National Public Health Week 2015, we have been sharing materials and resources under the daily themes. Today’s theme, Building Broader Connections, is about expanding…
Making Connections & Collaborating for the Future of Public Health
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Health Law Policy
Symposium: Guns, Public Health and Mental Illness
Symposium: Guns, Public Health and Mental Illness