Events
Conferences & Summits
The Network hosts a national conference, the Public Health Law Conference, every two years. We also organize biennial summits on the years adjacent to the conference, focusing on a specific area of public health law. Scroll down to register for an upcoming Network event or access materials for a previous event.
2022 Public Health Law Summit
Strengthening Protections for Community Health
April 25 – 27, 2022 | Baltimore, MD
networkforphl.org/summit | #PHLS2022
Even as public health, health care, and emergency services are focused on getting vaccines in arms and responding to the health, economic, and social impacts of COVID-19, new laws are being made by states around the country to limit disease mitigation measures – laws that have serious implications in the near term and for future public health emergencies. This Summit will examine recent legislative and other actions to severely limit public health efforts, and strategies to strengthen public health’s capacity to protect communities.
2021 Public Health Law Conference
Building and Supporting Healthy Communities for All
September 21 – 23
phlc2021.org | #PHLC2021
The impacts of the COVID pandemic have been devastating and there are numerous efforts by state legislatures nationwide to significantly reduce public health’s authority to address future disease outbreaks. During this critical time for public health, public health experts convened to discuss and explore law and policy pathways to protect and empower public health efforts.
2020 Public Health Law Virtual Summit
COVID-19 Response and Recovery
September 16 – 17
The COVID-19 pandemic is challenging public health in unprecedented ways, and is exposing structural failures and health inequities that further exasperate the impact of the virus. As the nation continues to grapple with the ongoing pandemic, the Network has joined with public health law partners to produce an expansive report, Pandemic Policymaking: Assessing Legal Responses to COVID-19, that includes critical analyses and recommendations from national experts convened to assess the U.S. policy response to the crisis to date. Many of these experts presented their key findings at this virtual Summit, and proposed paths forward to more effective and equitable response and recovery efforts.
View all session playbacks and accompanying materials on our summit site.
2019 Public Health Law Summit
Data Sharing to Improve Community Health
October 3- 4 | Plymouth, MI
A special thank you to all the attendees, presenters and sponsors who helped make the 2019 Public Health Law Summit such an overwhelming success! The Summit focused on strategies to collect, use, share and protect multi-sector data to improve the health of communities. From the exceptional Pre-Conference Workshops to the inspiring words from our Keynote speaker Vivian Singletary, we hope you left the Summit energized and with new tools and strategies to assist you in utilizing data to promote and improve community health.