This article covers new data released by the Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law regarding the legislative sess...
Act for Public Health provides direct support to public health departments and others through consultation, training, legal technical assistance, research, and ...
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 away and suggests ways to hold lawmakers accountable, to illustrate for community me...
This resource for public health communicators explains how to use bridging statements effectively to build trust, acknowledge and answer tough questions, a...
This webpage provides talking points and answers to tough questions related to COVID-19. Topics covered include children and COVID-19, mask guidance, vaccines, ...
This report summarizes a feasibility study conducted with public health advocates and leaders from 45 organizations. The purpose of this report is to stimulate ...
The third in the CDC Foundation’s Lights, Camera, Action: The Future of Public Health series, this summit brought together nearly 1,500 participants that ...
This webinar introduces the roles of various levels of government in public health policymaking and the ways that preemption is interfering with local democrati...
This story outlines the general failure of vaccine mandates in California, particularly in those that focus on children. The need for education, public informat...
This blog post introduces the use of isolation and quarantine powers to protect public health throughout history.
This lists enacted legislation and pending bills that limit public health power.
This summit hopes to address future challenges in public health, specifically discussing how law, governance, and finance are all intertwined and essential for ...
Hosted by APHA, the Alliance for Disease Prevention and Response, and the COVID Collaborative, this conversation features a panel of experts on the value o...
This webpage presents a collection of preemption resources on various issues, including sanctuary cities, equitable housing, minimum wage, and more. It is inten...
This webpage highlights resources from ChangeLab Solutions to help inform public officials and community leaders about how preemption can affect their efforts t...
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. U...
This post provides an overview of the ten state public health policies that the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) identified as the ...
This resource list gathers factual and legal analysis to assist public health officials, advocates, and policymakers in responding to the complex issues involve...
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 futur...
This blog post summarizes legal challenges to state laws and executive orders that limit or prohibit issuing universal face mask protocols for schools based on ...
This journal article discusses courts decisions to fight COVID-19 and the next pandemic.
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 the existence of criminal statutes punishing individuals who im...
This article discusses variation among states and cities in their implementation of 3 NPIs: stay-at- home/shelter-in-place orders, gathering restrictions, and m...
This blog discusses legal challenges to stay-at-home orders, business and school closures, public gathering limits, face covering requirements, and public healt...
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 Di...
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-driven po...
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 ad...
This report assesses the United States’ policy response to the COVID-19 crisis from the perspective of health equity along racial and economic lines. It c...
The report summarizes an approach for assessing negative and positive effects of preemption on health equity. It outlines a research and advocacy agenda for bui...
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 re...
This resource contains an overview of preemption, describes how it can affect health equity, and outlines generally how local authority is granted in different ...
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 outli...
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 unit...
This curriculum provides law training for state and local officials on how to balance public health authority against individual liberty using the U.S. constitu...
This map identifies structural differences of public health governance structures across states to understand the roles, responsibilities, and authorizes for se...
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 hea...
This toolkit addresses key concepts regarding federal and state emergency declarations and the various response authorities and liability protections these decl...
This toolkit provides coronavirus disease press releases from 2019 regarding telehealth, clinical, technical, billing, coding, Medicaid, Medicare and open payme...
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 app...
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 heal...
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 agencies...
This webpage provides information on the release of protected health information for planning purposes in emergency situations and guidance about sharing patien...
This webpage offers instruction on how children, pregnant women, older adults, people with chronic diseases, disabilities, and mental health disorders can appro...
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 of ...
This chart outlines the authorities of various departments/federal branches/agencies during public health emergencies to clarify the “chain of commandR...
This webpage by the Department of Health and Human Services provides general information about the Secretary’s legal authorities during public health and ...
This website provides the information for the series of three virtual public workshops exploring issues related to the COVID-19 pandemic and disaster preparedne...
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 discus...
An introduction to administrative law, this webinar explains how public health agencies can implement and enforce their policies and programs at all government ...
This webinar explores the nature of recent laws and legislation in various states and explains principles that should guide future legislation to include facts,...
Amidst dissatisfaction and anger at public health officials in response to COVID-19, this webinar organized with National Association of County and City Health ...
This article provides an overview of the doctrine of state police power, addresses recent limitations on public health police powers, then uses quarantine order...
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 propose...
This presentation reports key findings and data from the American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation’s surveys of trust in the U.S. Healthcare system.
This policy brief summarizes how states have used Medicaid emergency authorities related to the COVID-19 PHE, providing potential lessons for future public heal...
This article reviews the constitutional basis of the police power, its historical use in public health, and the structural reasons why health departments preocc...
This article explains the legality of public health emergency declarations including compulsory powers, health assessments, quarantine, and travel restrictions.
This article discusses the interdisciplinary functions of public health, the effects of legacy systems and policies on the sector’s response to COVID-19, ...
This articles describes the challenges faced by public health and healthcare leaders in trust-building. It also includes strategies to combat issues like attach...
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 offi...
This legal resource guide’s core objective is to produce a strategic assessment of legal or policy issues affecting the development of a regional model to...
This topic guide provides an overview of rural public health agencies, including FAQs, resources, funding and opportunities, events, and models and innovations....
This publication explains common questions and answers about the role of state of local public health departments and boards of health in public health regulati...
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 role ...
This book outlines a systems approach for public health, discussing the need for a population-based framework for practice, research, policy, and community enga...
This blog outlines the implications of the Biden Administration’s continuation of the public health emergency (PHE) declaration and what it means for fede...
This article discusses the barriers to modernization of the public health system posed by existing regulatory structures and suggests priority areas for utilizi...
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, an...
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 Washing...
This article explores how new states laws passed during COVID-19 curtail health agencies’ emergency powers to invoke restrictions like quarantines and mas...
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 acti...
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 com...
This webpage was created by the American Public Health Association to help counteract the “infodemic” of misinformation regarding COVID-19 and relat...
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, and ...
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-based...
The webinar series provides trustworthy scientific analysis of the latest COVID-19 developments for the benefit of policymakers, public health and health care o...