Launch of the Legal Epidemiology Center |
| How do laws affect public health? The transdisciplinary field of legal epidemiology gives us a way to answer this question scientifically. Using the tools of legal epidemiology, however, requires new skills and competencies. Developed through a partnership between CDC, ChangeLab Solutions, and the Policy Surveillance Program at Temple University’s Center for Public Health Law Research, the Legal Epidemiology Center features trainings and resources to teach you those skills. The center provides a brief introduction to legal epidemiology and includes resources for researchers, educators, students, and practitioners at health departments. Check out these free resources today! |
Launch of the Legal Epidemiology Center. How do laws affect public health? The transdisciplinary field of legal epidemiology gives us a way to answer this question scientifically. Using the tools of legal epidemiology, however, requires new skills and competencies. Developed through a partnership between CDC, ChangeLab Solutions, and the Policy Surveillance Program at Temple University’s Center for Public Health Law Research, the Legal Epidemiology Center features trainings and resources to teach you those skills. The center provides a brief introduction to legal epidemiology and includes resources for researchers, educators, students, and practitioners at health departments. Check out these free resources today!
- Introduction to Legal Epidemiology
- Advanced Legal Epidemiology Methods
- Pharmacist Collaborative Practice Agreements: Who, What, Why, & How
FERPA vs. HIPAA. PHLP is proud to announce a new section on its website comparing the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA). The section describes both laws and contains an easily downloaded graphic comparing them. This resource is a handy reference for healthcare providers, school personnel, and others interacting with FERPA and HIPAA.
Legal and Ethical Framework to Use Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Data for Patient-Centered Outcomes Research.[PDF – 109KB]Patient-centered outcomes research (PCOR) is a type of comparative effectiveness research (CER) that prioritizes consideration of outcomes important to individual patients: risks and potential benefits of treatment, quality of life, the range of treatment options, etc. However, allowing CDC’s data to be used for PCOR introduces some specific legal and ethical challenges. This paper offers a framework to navigate those challenges. It organizes the tools CDC needs to make decisions about how its data can best serve the public and advance the agency’s mission to support safer, healthier people.
New Publication: Exploring Tax Policy to Advance Population Health, Health Equity, and Economic Prosperity. The Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has published a resource that explains how tax policies can affect population health objectives.
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