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By Scott Burris I am not disputing the value of properly trained health professionals acting as gate-keepers to potentially dangerous drugs. And I am not taking on here the question of which health care professionals…
The Global Commission on HIV and the Law recently conducted a web discussion of steps to implement the Commission’s recommendations for better harmonizing law and HIV control. One of the questions for discussion was: What…
By Scott Burris In documenting how often public health law research does influence legislation, I’ve used syringe exchange programs as an example of evidence NOT guiding policy. Despite the consensus in health research that increasing…
By Kathleen West, B.S. (J.D., expected ’15) As the world watched Prince William place the new royal baby, reluctantly snug in his car seat, into a vehicle a few weeks ago, my thoughts were not…
By Scott Burris Over the weekend, my social science friends were all emailing about Nicholas Christakis’ op ed about how we should “shake up the social sciences.” On one level, the piece is easy to…
By Scott Burris The most important topic we did NOT address in our PHLR methods book was valid methods for rating laws for characteristics like “stringency.” I am not aware of any general work on…
By Y. Tony Yang, ScD, LLM, MPH More and more frequently, the media are reporting two potentially related and troubling developments: an alarming increase in outbreaks of deadly infectious vaccine-targeted diseases and the growing refusal…
By Scott Burris Training lay people to reverse opiate overdose with naloxone continues to gain steam in the evidence base, popular media and legislatures. Here’s a great blog post the covers recent developments and links…
Public Health Law Research has released its fifth call for proposals on studies that focus on the effects of laws and policies on public health. The new call for proposals is available online: www.rwjf.org/cfp/phlr5 The deadline…
By Scott Burris A couple weeks ago, I was in a conference room at a global health organization, all ready to give my talk on monitoring and evaluating legal health interventions. The chief of the…
