Empirical
NIH + NFL = PHLR
By Scott Burris, JD The National Football League has given the National Institutes of Health $30 million for research on traumatic brain injury. There is much we don’t know about the causes, effects, prevention and…
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Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research
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Empirical
Using the Taxing Power for Public Health
By Scott Burris In a Perspective in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine, Michelle Mello and Glenn Cohen, both professors at Harvard, write about the prospects for using the constitutional Taxing Power to adopt…
Using the Taxing Power for Public Health
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Empirical
Early Warning on Heroin and Syringe Exchange?
By Scott Burris It’s hard to believe that after all these years, all the evidence, and all the reductions in HIV among injection drug users, we still only have 15 states that explicitly authorize syringe…
Early Warning on Heroin and Syringe Exchange?
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Mental Health
Good news and bad news about gun laws, mental illness and violence — Part 3
This is Part 3 in a three-part series on gun laws, mental illness and violence in the United States. Read Part 1 and Part 2. By Jeffrey Swanson, PhD So what can the law do…
Good news and bad news about gun laws, mental illness and violence — Part 3
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Health Law Policy
Good news and bad news about gun laws, mental illness and violence — Part 2
This is Part 2 in a three-part series on gun laws, mental illness and violence in the United States. Read Part 1. By Jeffrey Swanson, PhD It is hard to find good news in our…
Good news and bad news about gun laws, mental illness and violence — Part 2
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Empirical
Cited by the Supreme Court: Oh, the Indignity and Humiliation of It!
By Scott Burris A law professor is usually thrilled to have an article cited by the Supreme Court. An empirical researcher will, likewise, be pleased that evidence he or she helped create shapes a decision…
Cited by the Supreme Court: Oh, the Indignity and Humiliation of It!
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Mental Health
Good News and Bad News About Gun Laws, Mental Illness and Violence — Part 1
This is Part 1 in a three-part series on gun laws, mental illness and violence in the United States. by Jeffrey Swanson, PhD Federal and state efforts to restrict firearms access to potentially dangerous people…
Good News and Bad News About Gun Laws, Mental Illness and Violence — Part 1
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Bioethics
A Question of Insurance Fraud?
By Scott Burris No, I mean it: this is a question to Bill of Health readers who know about the law on this topic. This week, a colleague handed me a palm card she’d been…
A Question of Insurance Fraud?
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Empirical
Needing a Lawyer on the Team
by Wendy Parmet It’s easy to see the value of including scientists in public health law research teams; most public health lawyers lack the training to conduct rigorous empirical research. It may be harder to…
Needing a Lawyer on the Team
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Public Health
Infrastructural Law: The Lesser-Known Cousin
by Jennifer Ibrahim, PhD, MPH An article by Julia Costich, MPA, JD, PhD, and Dana Patton, PhD, in the October 2012 edition of the American Journal of Public Health reveals the tip of the iceberg…
Infrastructural Law: The Lesser-Known Cousin