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Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research

Based at the Temple University Beasley School of Law, the Center for Public Health Law Research supports the widespread adoption of scientific tools and methods for mapping and evaluating the impact of law on health. It works by developing and teaching public health law research and legal epidemiology methods (including legal mapping and policy surveillance); researching laws and policies that improve health, increase access to care, and create or remove barriers to health (e.g., laws or policies that create or remove inequity); and communicating and disseminating evidence to facilitate innovation.
  • Health Law Policy

    Where Are We Now: Post 5, Ways of Being Wrong – and Opportunities to be Right

    By Scott Burris The main contests (a summary of previous posts): A lot of people in public health practice seem to be (appropriately) concerned about our public health infrastructure – the agencies within public health…

    Where Are We Now: Post 5, Ways of Being Wrong – and Opportunities to be Right

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  • Empirical

    Where Are We Now: Post 4, Looking in the Mirror, or 3 Games in Public Health

    By Scott Burris In a well-known exchange, Richard Epstein argued that modern public health had strayed far outside its traditional and proper work of preventing epidemics and injuries into a realm of social engineering in…

    Where Are We Now: Post 4, Looking in the Mirror, or 3 Games in Public Health

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  • First Amendment

    Where Are We Now: Post 3, The Agony (and Potential Ecstasy) of Defeat

    By Scott Burris Law has been an extremely effective mode of public health intervention in the last thirty years, which means that proponents of its use have won more than a few tough political battles. …

    Where Are We Now: Post 3, The Agony (and Potential Ecstasy) of Defeat

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  • Doctor-Patient Relationship

    Researchers to Lawmakers: Naloxone Distribution to Prevent Overdose Death is Cost-Effective

    By Scott Burris Phil Coffin and Sean Sullivan have published a cost-effectiveness study of interventions that equip heroin users and others to administer naloxone in the event of a witnessed opioid overdose.  Naloxone is the…

    Researchers to Lawmakers: Naloxone Distribution to Prevent Overdose Death is Cost-Effective

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  • Health Law Policy

    Where Are We Now: Post 2, The Thrill of Victory

    By Scott Burris Between budget cuts and “nanny state” attacks, it’s easy to feel that public health is a perennial political loser.  As for the courts, the first two constitutional amendments alone are throwing up…

    Where Are We Now: Post 2, The Thrill of Victory

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  • Bioethics

    Not too late for that ethically inclined law and society loved one’s stocking

    Nicky Priaulx of Cardiff and Anthony Wrigley of Keele have edited the latest volume in the Ashgate book series, “Ethics, Law and Society.”  Matthew Weait and I have contributed a piece on the ethics of…

    Not too late for that ethically inclined law and society loved one’s stocking

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  • Events

    The State of Public Health Law: Post I, “Who Am I? Why am I Here?”

    By Scott Burris Early in January, Lindsay Wiley and the Network for Public Health Law will convene a group of health law professors and (and a few colleagues from public health law practice) in Washington. …

    The State of Public Health Law: Post I, “Who Am I? Why am I Here?”

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  • Health Law Policy

    Gun Violence: Lessons Learned from Car Crashes

    By Scott Burris, JD “I have an absolute right to drive any vehicle I want, on any road, at any time, at any speed, and under any conditions.” That’s an argument few people would take…

    Gun Violence: Lessons Learned from Car Crashes

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  • Funding Opportunities

    Dissertation Grants for Public Health Law Research

    The Public Health Law Research program’s Strategic and Targeted Research Program funds research to fill critical gaps in the public health law evidence base. As part of this effort, PHLR is offering dissertation grants to…

    Dissertation Grants for Public Health Law Research

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  • Empirical

    Ohio Joins In

    By Hosea H. Harvey, JD, PhD Last week, Ohio joined the vast majority of states that have enacted laws designed to reduce long-term health consequences for youth athletes who suffer concussions (technically, traumatic brain injuries…

    Ohio Joins In

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