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Announcements: Webinars, FDA Nutrition Comments, APHA Ethics Session/Annual Meeting, More collapsed

Legal Tools: Public Health Emergency Preparedness Clearinghouse, CHI Navigator collapsed

Top Story: Emergency Preparedness Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina collapsed

Briefly Noted: Tobacco in Ballparks, Gun Safety, Powdered Caffeine, More collapsed

Profile in Public Health Law: Tina Batra Hershey, JD, MPH collapsed

Public Health Law News Quiz September 2015 collapsed

Public Health Law News Quiz Question August 2015 Winner! collapsed

Court Opinions: New Jersey Exxon Settlement, Insurance Payment Limits, More collapsed

Quote of the Month: Adrian Lund, President, Insurance Institute for Highway Safety

Thursday, October 1, 2015

Public Health Law Program
Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Public Health Law News Announcements

Webinar: Tribal Tobacco Control and the Law. The Public Health Law Program and the Network for Public Health Law are co-hosting a webinar series on tribal public health law. The second webinar in the series, Tobacco Control and the Law, will take place October 2, 2015, from 2:00 to 3:30 pm (EDT). This webinar will highlight the difference between traditional and commercial tobacco use and outline the public health effect commercial tobacco use has on American Indian and Alaska Native populations. It will also provide an overview of effective commercial tobacco control laws and discuss the legal framework for tobacco taxing and control.

Special Ethics Pre-Conference Session at the 143rd Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association.The APHA Learning Institute is offering a course for public health professionals, LI1005 Good Decision Making in Real Time: Practical Public Health Ethics for Health Officials, at the 2015 Annual APHA meeting. The ethics session will take place October 31, 2015, from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm (EDT) in Chicago, Illinois. It will introduce the basics of public health ethics and engage participants in discussion of case studies on issues public health officials are likely to face. Contact Drue Barrett at DBarrett@cdc.gov or 404-639-4690 for more information about the course. APHA’s 2015 Meeting will take place October 31–November 4, 2015.

2016 Public Health Law Conference. The Public Health Law Conference will take place September 15–17, 2016, in Washington, DC. The conference, hosted by the Network for Public Health Law, is for public health lawyers, practitioners, officials, policymakers, researchers, and advocates. Conference attendees will learn about laws and policies affecting critical public health issues, including disease prevention, drug overdose, health data sharing, and access to care. Early bird registration is available now.