Transdisciplinary Integration: The Only Way Forward for Public Health
True integration of public health, social and behavioral science, and law is the only way forward.
Scott Burris
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Read more: Social Justice in COVID-19 Response: The Legal Issues We Have to Talk About Social Justice in COVID-19 Response: The Legal Issues We Have to Talk About
Our government is beginning to recognize its responsibility to ensure basic functions. Will it continue to do so once the crisis has abated?
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Read more: Security and Health: Police as Key Players in Public Health Security and Health: Police as Key Players in Public Health
A global set of authors make the case that military and police forces should be recognized as key players, rather than intruders, in public health.
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Read more: Health Law Scholar Citation Rankings: A Better Picture This Year Health Law Scholar Citation Rankings: A Better Picture This Year
By Scott Burris Glenn and Mark have done their bit for benchmarking our field with another round of health law professor rankings. It is a largely thankless task, so thank you professors. Last year, I responded to their list with the observation that any count based on law review publication alone was problematic in assessing…
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Read more: Zombie Ideas: Safe Injection Department Zombie Ideas: Safe Injection Department
Recently, people in Vermont have been talking about launching a Safe Injection Facility (SIF) to address drug harms arising with the opioid epidemic. With more deaths than ever, trying new approaches make sense — especially “new” approaches like SIFs that have two decades of solid international evidence of efficacy behind them. Several cities are actively…
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Read more: Sentinel Policy Surveillance: A New Front in Legal Epidemiology? Sentinel Policy Surveillance: A New Front in Legal Epidemiology?
Paul Erwin, Associate Editor of the American Journal of Public Health, recently wrote about the establishment of a Sentinel Practitioner Surveillance System for Policy Change Impact, or what might be called “sentinel policy surveillance.” The network of twelve diverse health officers will be trying to identify and share instances of harmful impact from Trump administration policies. Erwin…
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Read more: Health Law Rankings — Another Perspective Health Law Rankings — Another Perspective
Glenn and Mark recently published a list of most-cited health law scholars, using the methods generally used for these studies in legal academia. Like any academic who steadfastly denigrates the importance of lists, I naturally checked right away to see where I ranked, which was somewhere so far down the list that only an outbeak…
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Read more: Making a Moral Case for Regulation Making a Moral Case for Regulation
Valerie Braithwaite’s chapter in the ANU’s Press’s new Regulatory Theory: Foundations and Applications provides a general introduction to looking at regulation through a social lens. If regulation is so great, she asks, why do so many people approach it with fear and loathing? I won’t rehearse her argument here, but instead skip to some key points…
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Read more: Fantastic New Resource on Regulation Fantastic New Resource on Regulation
Peter Drahos and a roster of the minds that have made RegNet at the Australian National University the hub of regulatory research and theory have put (it seems) all they know into a new, FREE ebook, Regulatory Theory: Foundations and Applications. It is a comprehensive account of the field, written to serve both as a…
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Read more: Housing Equity Week in Review Housing Equity Week in Review
This week was all about fair housing. Particularly, the Affirmatively Further Fair Housing rule and recent attempts to dismantle it. Here’s the round-up for last week, January 29 – February 5, 2017: Two bills are attempting to abolish the Affirmatively Further Fair Housing rule of the Obama administration. A review of Fair Housing, the rule,…