Public Health Emergency Law Online Training
This tool aims to equip public health professionals with the necessary legal knowledge to effectively respond to emergencies and protect the health and safet...
The authority to act to protect and promote the public’s health has emerged over the course of our Nation’s history, and has enabled many of modern public health’s greatest achievements. Today, public health agencies use their authority to promote health, prevent the spread of infectious disease, protect against environmental hazards, advance equity and assure local public health infrastructure and health services. During declared emergencies, state and federal authorities have broader powers to act to assist governments, suspend or modify legal requirements, pass and enforce law and expend funds for the health, safety and welfare of society. Recently, some states have moved to limit public health powers. Such efforts pose a mounting challenge for public health’s response to COVID-19 and future threats.
New laws to limit emergency powers and public health authority are concerning given their potential to create and perpetuate inequities. For example, preemption which may prevent communities from acting to deal with their own populations and relevant issues as needed. We can better understand the influence of policy on health and equity through a “Health and Equity in All Policies” approach to policy-making. Such approaches hold promise for centering equity in public policy discourse and advocacy, and transforming policies and systems for equity.
This article examines how the nation may less prepared for the next pandemic than it was for COVID-19, partly through the story of a family physician in Washington state. It maps where state laws newly limit public health powers, reviews the history of public health authority, and provides county health department survey results with concerns […]
This report explores the history of public health authority, including longstanding and recent efforts to undermine it. It provides arguments to counter proposed legislation as a resource for public health officials, advocates, and policymakers.
This curriculum provides law training for state and local officials on how to balance public health authority against individual liberty using the U.S. constitution as a framework. It includes an overview of laws that affect how government can respond to health crises while advancing health equity.
This tool aims to equip public health professionals with the necessary legal knowledge to effectively respond to emergencies and protect the health and safet...
This resource highlights the necessity of updating public health emergency laws in response to lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic, addressing the lim...
This resource discusses top public health priorities and legislative trends anticipated to impact public health in state legislative sessions.
This resource addresses the balance between public health measures and individual rights during the COVID-19 pandemic, emphasizing the constitutional and eth...
This podcast episode highlights choosing to pursue an MPH over an MHA, Mentorship vs Sponsorship and their importance, why you need to be directionally corre...
This webinar discusses the regulations surrounding lobbying and advocacy and some examples of activities that are well within the realm of advocacy. The webi...
This resource identifies and categorizes US state legislation introduced between January 1, 2021, and May 20, 2022, that addresses emergency health authority...
This longitudinal dataset captures details of legislation regulating public health measures introduced between January 1, 2021, and May 20, 2022, in all 50 U...
This longitudinal dataset captures details of legislation preempting public health measures introduced between January 1, 2021, and May 20, 2022, in all 50 U...
This longitudinal dataset captures details of legislation seeking to limit federal law enforcement introduced between January 1, 2021, and May 20, 2022, in a...
This longitudinal dataset captures details of legislation strengthening public health introduced between January 1, 2021, and May 20, 2022, in all 50 U.S. st...
This longitudinal dataset captures details of legislation attempting to reallocate
This longitudinal dataset captures details of legislation limiting the emergency public health authority of state governors, state health officials, and loca...
This resource is a longitudinal dataset that captures laws addressing authority to respond to public health emergencies enacted between May 21, 2022, and Apr...
This toolkit contains various suggestions and recommendations on how to discuss public health in varying situations. It includes articles, FAQs, and in-depth...
The American Public Health Association provides advocacy resources related to voting, Congressional engagement, policy statements, and resources explaining k...
This guide is designed for starting conversations about preemption, especially abusive preemption. They provide a comprehensive strategy on how to begin the ...
This flyer discusses the key differences between health advocacy and lobbying. They provide a description of each action and examples of how they both can be...
This repository contains data on legal threats to public health authority beween January 1, 2021, and May 20, 2022. The six available data sets concern state...
This articles discusses the various court orders that diminished public health authority surrounding mask and vaccine mandates. The authors discuss the poten...
This website contains various resources and tools that relate to effective messaging in public health environments to create meaningful dialogue. The website...
This website discusses how to approach communication oriented around the government and policy. It contains various articles, reports, and toolkits on how to...
This website provides health policy communications support. The repository contains information on several health communications focus areas, including the i...
This website discusses human services and how to communicate about them. The website contains various toolkits, reports, and recommendations on how to approa...
This website provides an introduction to public health authority, including key definitions and explainations of public health concepts, threats to public he...
FrameWorks provides a resource hub for evidence-based policymaking and communications support. The website includes guides and webinars regarding reframing s...
This webinar explains public health authority and legislation related to lobbying and advocacy for public health professionals. The web page includes additio...
This webinar includes resources for communicating the importance of public health infrastructure to prevent limits to public health authority. The resource i...
This series of webinars provides communications training for the public health field. Speakers include state, local, and federal government officials, public...
This report contains an analysis of all state laws that impact public health authority as of May 20, 2022. The laws described in this report relate to the CO...
This policy brief synthesizes the data depicted in Temple University’s Sentinel Surveillance of Emerging Laws Limiting Public Health Emergency Orders....
This guide is an addendum to an existing guide that provides specific strategies on how to facilitate conversations about preemption. This guide provides sug...
This report showcases certain preemption state laws that were introduced and/or enacted in the 2022 legislative session. These laws relate to public health a...
This guide provides advocacy materials for public health preemption. The resource introduces preemption and provides guides for recruitment, engagement, and ...
The guide provides a comprehensive framework on how to identify, create, and sustain healthy partnerships. Partnerships between organizations among different...
This fact sheet provides summarizes the main types of preemption and how it operates. The authors provide various examples of preemption to understand how th...
This messaging guide outlines preemption of public health authority, defining preemption, identifying relevant legislation, and sharing messaging guides for ...
This resource provides a community-level overview of legislative limits to public health authority. ChangeLab Solutions introduces concepts of public health ...
This data tool provided by the National Conference of State Legislatures culminates and tracks all bills relating to COVID that entered state legislatures. T...
This article covers new data released by the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law regarding the legislat...
Act for Public Health provides direct support to public health departments and others through consultation, training, legal technical assistance, research, a...
This blog post discusses how local communities are shaping solutions to counter preemption laws and give everyone a fair and just opportunity for health. ...
This report explores the ways that public health authority is being eroded and suggests ways to hold lawmakers accountable, illustrate to community memb...
This resource for public health communicators explains how to use bridging statements effectively to build trust, acknowledge and answer tough questions...
This webpage provides talking points and answers to tough questions related to COVID-19. Topics covered include children and COVID-19, mask guidance, vaccine...
This report summarizes a feasibility study conducted with public health advocates and leaders from 45 organizations. The purpose of this report is to stimula...
The third in the CDC Foundation’s Lights, Camera, Action: The Future of Public Health series, this summit brought together nearly 1,500 participants t...
This webinar introduces the roles of various levels of government in public health policymaking and the ways that preemption is interfering with local democr...
This story outlines the general failure of vaccine mandates in California, particularly in those that focus on children. The need for education, public infor...
This blog post introduces the use of isolation and quarantine powers to protect public health throughout history.
This resource details COVID-19-related laws and pending legislation, and broader enacted and proposed limitations on public health authority in all 50 states...
This summit discusses future challenges in public health, specifically how law, governance, and finance are all intertwined and essential for strong public h...
Hosted by APHA, the Alliance for Disease Prevention and Response, and the COVID Collaborative, this conversation features a panel of experts on the valu...
This webpage presents a collection of preemption resources on various issues, including sanctuary cities, equitable housing, minimum wage, and more. It is in...
This webpage highlights resources from ChangeLab Solutions to help inform public officials and community leaders about how preemption can affect their effort...
This webpage provides an overview of a longitudinal dataset on the laws that limit the authority of officials and entities for public health emergency orders...
This post provides an overview of the ten state public health policies that the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) identified as t...
This resource list gathers factual and legal analysis to assist public health officials, advocates, and policymakers in responding to the complex issues invo...
The COVID-19 Policy Playbook II offers an assessment of the U.S. policy response to the COVID-19 crisis, legal recommendations for a safer, more equitable fu...
This blog post summarizes legal challenges to state laws and executive orders that limit or prohibit issuing universal face mask protocols for schools based ...
This resource discusses the surge in litigation related to COVID-19 and the varying outcomes of legal challenges to mitigation measures. It mentions courts...
This website page outlines steps for stopping workforce violence in public health, and provides resources and factsheets.
This journal article discusses quarantines and travel bans implemented during COVID-19 in the United States.
This report summarizes survey findings of legal protections for public health workers, including criminal statutes punishing individuals who impede public he...
This article discusses variations among states and cities in implementing 3 NPIs: stay-at- home/shelter-in-place orders, gathering restrictions, and mask man...
This blog discusses legal challenges to stay-at-home orders, business and school closures, public gathering limits, face covering requirements, and public he...
This database provides up-to-date, real-time information about bills related to and responding to COVID-19 that have been introduced in the 50 states and the...
This resource provides detailed recommendations for the equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines to children ages 5-11 years old.
This infographic outlines why preemption matters for public health. It provides the definition of preemption, as well as its implications for community-drive...
This webpage provides an overview of preemption and highlights key resources connecting preemption, public health and equity.
This presentation explores the connections between preemption, public health, and equity. It also contains information regarding how preemption can hinder or...
This report assesses the United States’ policy response to the COVID-19 crisis from the perspective of health equity along racial and economic lines. ...
The report summarizes an approach for assessing negative and positive effects of preemption on health equity. It outlines a research and advocacy agenda for ...
This article outlines the concept of preemption and how this concept has been evolving in recent years, especially in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This...
This resource contains an overview of preemption, describes how it can affect health equity, and outlines generally how local authority is granted in differe...
This legal memo outlines legal authority of local health officers and local governments in the state of California to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. It ou...
This blog details what public health leaders need to know about the legal issues regarding quarantine and isolation during COVID-19.
This course was developed to provide practitioners, students and healthcare professionals a basis knowledge of public health law; it comprises nine lecture u...
This curriculum provides law training for state and local officials on how to balance public health authority against individual liberty using the U.S. const...
This map identifies structural differences of public health governance structures across states to understand the roles, responsibilities, and authorizes for...
This series of toolkits addresses the key needs of public health officials in understanding and using legal authorities to prepare for and respond to public ...
This toolkit addresses critical concepts regarding federal and state emergency declarations and the various response authorities and liability protections th...
This toolkit provides coronavirus disease press releases from 2019 regarding telehealth, clinical, technical, billing, coding, Medicaid, Medicare and open pa...
This toolkit provides overviews, guidelines, fact sheets, resource materials and updates on public health and information sharing.
This letter written by HHS provides the details pertaining the application of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This presentation provides information and objective guidance on emerging issues of law and policy, core legal preparedness and response issues.
This document provides framework for emergency public health medical response during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This data tool tracks details and the timeline of approved Medicaid emergency authorities in the US during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. The ...
This map and chart describes each state’s emergency orders and actions designed to safeguard residents during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This data bank is a growing portfolio of courses and other learning materials on public health law featuring trainings and educational resources for public h...
This article discusses the publics response to stay at home orders, mandatory business closures and mask mandates.
This article discusses legal limits on government actions during the health emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This webpage provides a living summary of actions, updates and changes made by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as well as other federal agenc...
This webpage provides information on the release of protected health information for planning purposes in emergency situations and guidance about sharing pat...
This webpage offers instructions on how children, pregnant women, older adults, people with chronic diseases, disabilities, and mental health disorders can a...
This webpage is a running list of public health emergency declarations from the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with the type ...
This chart outlines the authorities of various departments/federal branches/agencies during public health emergencies to clarify the “chain of command...
This webpage by the Department of Health and Human Services provides general information about the Secretary’s legal authorities during public health ...
This website provides the information for the series of three virtual public workshops exploring issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic and disaster prepare...
This webinar highlights federal and state laws like HIPPA that affect public health’s ability to share COVID-19 information and data.
This webinar shares results from a national survey on criminal statutes that protect public health officials, analyzes burnout and employee turnover, and dis...
An introduction to administrative law, this webinar explains how public health agencies can implement and enforce their policies and programs at all governme...
This webinar explores the nature of recent laws and legislation in various states and explains principles that should guide future legislation to include fac...
Amidst dissatisfaction and anger at public health officials in response to COVID-19, this webinar organized with National Association of County and City Heal...
This article provides an overview of the doctrine of state police power, addresses recent limitations on public health police powers, then uses quarantine or...
This article provides a snapshot of the IFRC’s report on law and public health emergency preparedness and response.
This report explores the history of public health authority, including longstanding and recent efforts to undermine it. It provides arguments to counter prop...
This presentation reports key findings and data from the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s surveys of trust in the U.S. Healthcare syst...
This policy brief summarizes how states have used Medicaid emergency authorities related to the COVID-19 PHE, providing potential lessons for future public h...
This article reviews the constitutional basis of the police power, its historical use in public health, and the structural reasons why health departments pre...
This article explains the legality of public health emergency declarations including compulsory powers, health assessments, quarantine, and travel restrictio...
This article discusses the interdisciplinary functions of public health, the effects of legacy systems and policies on the sector’s response to COVID-...
This article describes the challenges public health and healthcare leaders face in building trust. It also includes strategies to combat issues like attachme...
This study reviews data on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy and advocates for a localized process in educating the public. It further advocates for public health o...
This legal resource guide’s core objective is to produce a strategic assessment of legal or policy issues affecting the development of a regional mode...
This topic guide provides an overview of rural public health agencies, including FAQs, resources, funding and opportunities, events, and models and innovatio...
This publication explains common questions and answers about the role of state of local public health departments and boards of health in public health regul...
This factsheet defines public health law and explores sources of legal authority including constitutions, legislation, regulations, and case law.
This data bank is a compilation of the best practices and lessons learned that communities faced fighting COVID-19.
This newsletter provides noteworthy news and content of potential interest to readers on public health law.
This virtual resource center serves as a repository for state-focused resources pertaining to public health emergency preparedness policy.
This data bank contains a variety of resources on COVID-19 Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) for vaccines, drugs, medical devices and more.
This repository stores general information, tools, plans and templates on COVID-19 legal resources.
This chapter of The Future of the Public’s Health in the 21st Century explores the state of governmental public health infrastructure, including the r...
This book outlines a systems approach for public health, discussing the need for a population-based framework for practice, research, policy, and community e...
This blog outlines the implications of the Biden Administration’s continuation of the public health emergency (PHE) declaration and what it means for ...
This article discusses the barriers to modernization of the public health system posed by existing regulatory structures and suggests priority areas for util...
This story gives examples of recent legislation aimed at weakening public health authority and discusses rising rates of burnout among officials.
This blog post, which is accompanied by a webinar, defines administrative law, explains where public health agencies sit within the U.S. governmental system,...
This article examines how the nation may less prepared for the next pandemic than it was for COVID-19, partly through the story of a family physician in Wash...
This article explores how new states laws passed during COVID-19 curtail health agencies’ emergency powers to invoke restrictions like quarantines and...
This webpage presents COVID-19 and related information from the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. It is organized into five main sections: knowledge in a...
This podcast features guest speakers, Dr. Umair Shah and Dr. Khalilah LeGrand, who share insights and lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic on crisis ...
This webpage was created by the American Public Health Association to help counteract the “infodemic” of misinformation regarding COVID-19 and ...
This video is intended for public health practitioners, trainers, and faculty and provides an overview of the powers and limits of public health.
This toolkit provides a variety of communication materials to support COVID-19 data tracking, including social media graphics, data visualizations, videos, a...
This communications webinar provides advice and guidance on effective messaging for issues related to COVID-19.
This collection of curated messaging resources from the Public Health Communications Collaborative are designed to help public health leaders deliver fact-ba...
The webinar series provides trustworthy scientific analysis of the latest COVID-19 developments for the benefit of policymakers, public health and health car...
Building trust in COVID-19 vaccination and other public health interventions is fundamental to the work of public health and efforts to end the COVID-19 pandemic. We can build trust by combating misinformation, supporting trusted messengers and networks, improving our trustworthiness, and deepening relationships that engender trust over time. Building trust between public health and communities facilitates acceptance of public health interventions and can cultivate an equitable COVID-19 response now and conditions for well-being in the future.