Empirical
“Measuring the Un-measurable”
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…
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Empirical
A New Collection of PHLR
By Scott Burris The latest issue of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law showcases the range of projects and researchers filling out the field of Public Health Law Research. An excellent introduction by…
A New Collection of PHLR
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Announcements
More on NSF and NIH Funding
By Scott Burris Here’s where some in Congress would like us to go: ScienceInsider reports: The new chair of the House of Representatives science committee has drafted a bill that, in effect, would replace peer…
More on NSF and NIH Funding
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Empirical
A Tale of Two Polities
By Scott Burris Last week, Northeastern University’s effort to convene a much-needed conference on the future of health policy was a casualty of the successful manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers. One hardly wants to…
A Tale of Two Polities
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Announcements
While We Sleep?
By Scott Burris Nothing threatens a know-nothing more than the prospect of someone knowing something. Hence there has been increasing pressure on and from some in Congress to reduce government funding of social science research.…
While We Sleep?
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Empirical
Further On the Fake Anti-Government Electorate
By Scott Burris In recent posts, I have been pointing to research that suggests that government intervention for public health is actually rather popular as a general matter. Now comes a neat paper that takes…
Further On the Fake Anti-Government Electorate
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Global Health & Human Rights
More on the M&M Study
By Scott Burris Stephanie Morain and Michelle Mello’s recent paper in the March issue of Health Affairs is an extremely important contribution. It reports on a survey of American adults investigating their support for a…
More on the M&M Study
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Health Law Policy
Happy Public Health Week: “We’re Good Enough, We’re Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Us”
By Scott Burris We may be living in a golden age of group-think. A weekly reminder is poor Paul Krugman railing against the apparently universal belief in America and Europe that we’ve got to cut…
Happy Public Health Week: “We’re Good Enough, We’re Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Us”
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Health Law Policy
Disseminating Where It Matters
By Scott Burris Public Health Law Research funded Dr. Caleb Banta-Green to evaluate the implementation and initial effects of a Washington State “Good Samaritan 911” law meant to encourage people witnessing a drug overdose to…
Disseminating Where It Matters
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Empirical
Times Report Models Worst Practices for Policy Research Reporting
By Scott Burris I read the Times daily, and so naturally would like to be able to think it deserves to be regarded as a credible “newspaper of record.” Today the paper outdid itself to…
Times Report Models Worst Practices for Policy Research Reporting