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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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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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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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
“Overcriminalization” and HIV
By Scott Burris The concept of “overcriminalization” is gaining traction across the political spectrum. The Heritage Foundation, which has a website devoted to the phenomenon, defines it as “the trend in America – and particularly…
“Overcriminalization” and HIV
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Health Law Policy
Law Professors Organize
By Scott Burris Over the past fifty years, law has become an important tool for promoting public health – and a site of dramatic social and political contests. Public health law has been an integral…
Law Professors Organize
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Empirical
Evidence for Policy: Nice If You Can Get It
By Scott Burris Sometimes researchers can tell policy makers pretty confidently what public health law interventions really make a difference. The PHLR website has more than 50 Evidence Briefs that summarize the results of systematic…
Evidence for Policy: Nice If You Can Get It
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Empirical
The Evolution of Public Health Law Research
By Scott Burris, JD Law has been used to protect and promote public health from the early days of European colonization of North America. Quarantine statutes and orders are reported from the mid-17th century. The…
The Evolution of Public Health Law Research