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By Leslie Allen, JD On November 20, 2014, the Public Health Law Research program released a new 50-state dataset analyzing state law governing the short-term emergency commitment process. These laws give law enforcement officers and…
By Arielle Lusardi As state medical marijuana laws proliferate throughout the country, companies are trying to secure their own piece of the action. In July 2014, a San Francisco-based start-up company, called Eaze, launched a…
By Holly Jones, BA, JD candidate How can the federal government ensure consumer safety in an industry that distributes a substance the federal government classifies as an illegal drug? The federal government effectively banned the…
By Hosea H. Harvey, Ph.D., JD About a year ago, my colleague Scott Burris blogged on this forum about the two polities of public health that compete for our visions – one view sees public health as “incredibly…
By Sterling Johnson, JD Grinnell College in Iowa will host the first National Conference on HIV Criminalization next week, June 2-5 on its campus. One of the stated goals of the conference will be to…
In honor of last week’s National Public Health Week, we have a lot of fresh, new PHLR. The latest crop of papers from public health law researchers touch on a number of important points and…
By Jeffrey Swanson, PhD Effective salespeople often practice something called an “elevator speech,”—a clear, persuasive pitch for their product that’s so succinct they can deliver it on the ride between the lobby and the mezzanine. …
This week, PHLR launched its SciVal Experts PHLR Community website. The core of the site is publications and other information for 300 leading public health law researchers doing empirical evaluations of the impact of laws…
The National Program Office (NPO) for Public Health Law Research (PHLR), a nationally recognized program sponsored by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for the evaluation of the health impact of laws and legal practices, seeks a…
By Scott Burris Working with Corey Davis of the Network for Public Health Law, PHLR has completed and posted updated longitudinal datasets of state laws authorizing naloxone distribution and creating “Good Samaritan” immunity for callers…
