What Usher’s Herpes Allegations Teach Us About Sexual Health And The Law
Professor Scott Burris was quoted in this article from the Huffington Post. Read the Full Article
Professor Scott Burris was quoted in this article from the Huffington Post. Read the Full Article
Professor Scott Burris is quoted in this article on New Hampshire, which is considering a bill that would clear the way for needle exchange programs and decriminalize residual amounts of drugs in syringes when they are exchanged for clean ones. Currently, only five states explicitly exempt trace amounts of drugs from their controlled drug laws, according to Professor Scott Burris. Read the Full Story
Professor Nan Feyler joined WHYY’s RadioTimes to discuss the public health problem of lead poisoning in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, much of which is caused by flaking and chipping paint. Listen to the Podcast
A transdisciplinary model of public health law, linking both its legal and scientific elements, can help break down enduring cultural, disciplinary, and resource barriers that have prevented the full recognition and optimal role of law in public health. Public health law has roots in both law and science. For more than a century, lawyers have helped develop and implement health laws; over the last 50 years, scientific evaluation of the health effects of laws and legal practices has achieved high levels of rigor and influence. We describe an emerging model of public health law uniting these two traditions. This transdisciplinary model adds scientific practices to the lawyerly functions of normative and doctrinal research, counseling, and representation. These practices include policy surveillance and empirical public health law research on the efficacy of legal interventions and the impact of laws and legal practices on health and health system operation. Download the Paper at SSRN
Law is important to public health. It provides government health agencies with their jurisdiction and regulatory authority. Laws and regulations are routinely used in the name of health to regulate behavior and foster safer environments. More fundamentally, law’s influence in shaping everyday life and the socioeconomic and physical environments in which it unfolds has a powerful impact on both the level and distribution of health. Despite law’s importance, and despite the strong orientation toward scientific evaluation in public health, the study of the impact of laws and legal practices on health (“public health law research”) has been uneven. While research of the highest quality has been sustained in a few areas like auto safety and tobacco control, it has been infrequent or truncated in others, like gun control and HIV/AIDS. The research that has been supported is almost entirely aimed at evaluating deliberate legal interventions. Epidemiological research on unintended health effects of non-health laws has been almost entirely neglected. Overall, the national investment in rigorously separating the laws that help from the laws that hurt has …
Visiting Professor Nan Feyler is quoted in this article by the Philadelphia Tribune about lead poisoning in the city of Philadelphia. While the Flint, Michigan water crisis dominates headlines across the country, Feyler talks about the danger of lead poisoning and the communities most at risk. Read the Full Story