Improving the Future of Public Health by Applauding Appropriate Judicial Oversight
The public health establishment should take stock of itself and commit to better targeted and clearly justified employment of legal force.

The public health establishment should take stock of itself and commit to better targeted and clearly justified employment of legal force.

The most promising path forward in public health is to continue recognizing federal authority and responsibility in this space.

Older federal health laws are on a downward spiral to address modern health problems, but the spiraling can reversed — if Congress acts.

Public health officials and their partners have fought and won against denialist laws using innovative arguments to counter antithetical approaches.

As state and federal public health authority erodes, employers may increasingly find themselves playing a central role in promoting public health.

The Supreme Court is willing to subordinate public health policies to pet interests in boosting religious freedom and dismantling the administrative state.

Judicial partisanship is a major threat to public health. Congress should implement reforms to address this problem at its roots.
