Health Law Policy
George at APHA IV: Happy George
By Scott Burris This is the last in a series summarizing a panel from the George collaborative of law professors at last week’s APHA meeting. My talk had a smiley icon for a title and…
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Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research
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Health Law Policy
George at APHA III
By Scott Burris One of the themes of what we might call Georgian Legal Scholarship has been the neglect of public health as a core object of government. This is a theme Wendy Parmet set…
George at APHA III
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Health Law Policy
George at APHA II
By Scott Burris (Second in a series of posts on the George Project session at APHA last week.) Lindsay Wiley, who has been writing some interesting stuff lately about the democratic foundations of public health,…
George at APHA II
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Health Law Policy
George at APHA I
By Scott Burris The “George Project” is a loose collaborative of law professors working to promote the fair and effective use of law for public health. It has been described here. Last week, four George…
George at APHA I
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Empirical
Avoiding the Crash: New research on fatality rates for cyclists and pedestrians in distracted driving crashes
By Jacqueline Jefferson, BS (’14), Temple University Department of Public Health Today it seems impossible for drivers to keep both hands on the steering wheel and eyes on the road, with all the technology that…
Avoiding the Crash: New research on fatality rates for cyclists and pedestrians in distracted driving crashes
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Empirical
Another Legislative Win for Opioid Death Prevention
By Scott Burris The rising public and legislative awareness of opioid overdose has been a case study in the twists and turns of culture, risk perception and the role of evidence in policy making. An…
Another Legislative Win for Opioid Death Prevention
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Health Law Policy
Bargaining Chips
By Scott Burris Christopher Robertson recently posted here a semi-facetious suggestion of things that Democrats could ask for once the shut-down and the debt-ceiling dance turns into real bargaining. (How sad that this has to be…
Bargaining Chips
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Public Health
To Our Friends and Colleagues in the Federal Service
By Scott Burris Take-no-prisoners politics has been succeeded by hostage-taking politics. The metaphor could go a few ways, but in the most concrete sense the hostages are you, our friends and colleagues who work for…
To Our Friends and Colleagues in the Federal Service
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Food
“Mountain Dew Mouth:” A Critical Opportunity for Public Health Law
By Scott Burris Last week, the American Journal of Public Health published a PHLR paper by Michelle Mello and colleagues calling for our field to identfy “critical opportunities” for public health law. Critical Opportunities are…
“Mountain Dew Mouth:” A Critical Opportunity for Public Health Law
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Announcements
A New Film on HIV Criminalization
By Scott Burris A new documentary from the HIV Justice Network gets the views of researchers on the impact of HIV criminalization. Call it Evidencer-Based film-making. It premiered last night at the US Conference on…
A New Film on HIV Criminalization