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We’ve rounded up the latest news from the past week, January 9-15, 2017, for housing law and equity. The HUD confirmation hearing was, of course, the biggest news, but a few other items of note:…
Since the 1990s, there has been a growing movement to improve access to immunization services by giving pharmacists the authority to administer vaccines. The newest map on LawAtlas.org explores state laws from 1990 to 2016…
Together with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Public Health Management Corporation, the Policy Surveillance Program recently released a new map addressing Emergency Powers laws. Emergencies might involve dangers to public health, such…
Q&A with Christopher Bonastia, PhD This is the first in a series of posts we will share during our research for our housing equity project. Have a suggestion for what we should read next? Let…
Health equity in housing can be defined as the absence of disadvantage to individuals and communities in health outcomes, access to health and social services, and quality of health and social services based on a…
By Jonathan Larsen, JD, MPP and Adrienne R. Ghorashi, Esq. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first biosimilar for use in the United States in March 2015. The approval came after several…
The Policy Surveillance Program has updated LawAtlas.org! The site has been redesigned to make the data easier to navigate and materials easier to find. It also includes new maps and data, and a series of…
In a new article published today in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Scott Burris, Laura Hitchcock, Jennifer Ibrahim, Matthew Penn and Tara Ramanathan make the case for the practice of policy surveillance…
The Policy Surveillance Program staff has recently updated the Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Dataset on LawAtlas.org to include laws through May 2016. Fifty jurisdictions and the District of Columbia have laws pertaining to nurse…
By Scott Burris, JD The past few weeks saw two important studies published using legal mapping data to understand the role law plays in addressing health inequity and disparities. Both provide immediately actionable insights for…
