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Our government is beginning to recognize its responsibility to ensure basic functions. Will it continue to do so once the crisis has abated?
As the United States continues its response to a seemingly inevitable coronavirus epidemic, experts in law and public health are stressing the importance of supportive social safety nets to ensure an equitable and fair response…
The landscape of abortion law in the United States saw increases in targeted restrictions in 2019, but also some efforts to protect access by state governments and courts, according to new data published this week…
By The Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research This week, the Center for Public Health Law Research and Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) published the first two of 13 comprehensive datasets on laws…
By Scott Burris Federal District Judge Gerald McHugh of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled today that the operation of a safe injection site to prevent overdose, HIV, and other harms associated with drug injection…
By Lilo Blank The current xenophobic, racist, and anti-immigrant climate in the United States and its detrimental impact on immigrant communities and their health cannot be ignored. This month, gunmen have executed a series of mass…
By Justine Fuga Just last year, one in five high school students and one in 20 middle school students across the country used electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes). According to the 2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey, more…
By Lilo Blank Gentrification is highly contentious as it transforms neighborhoods from low to high value. A National Community Reinvestment Coalition study shows that gentrification and subsequent displacement has increased in urban areas within the last…
Health challenges for immigrant communities likely just became much more complicated even after planned ICE raids never materialized this weekend.
Gestational limitation on abortion, or “heartbeat bans,” recently became law in both Ohio and Georgia, but states are limiting abortion access in other ways
