Overview Public health attorneys and practitioners are developing incredibly useful tools to support decision-making and equitable practices during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope that you…
During this pandemic, public health may be asked to share patient specific COVID-19 information with first responders. Here is one county health department’s protocols for sharing COVID-19 identifiable patient information with first responders.
This list contains links to additional materials and resources on Becoming Better Messengers and on Moral Foundations Theory.
This FAQ addresses questions of HIPAA compliance and requirements in regards to the COVID-19 pandemic. This FAQ is broken into eight sections.
On December 10, 2015, President Obama signed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) into law. This Issue Brief and chart provides an overview of sections in the Act that are particularly relevant to public health, including the title and a brief descriptive summary of the section.
Indiana’s Public Health Code and Communicable Disease Rules provide an array of actions that state and local health officers can use to respond to a public health emergency. This document is intended to assist health officers and their attorneys by identifying potential actions and linking to the applicable law. Though the details of this document apply only in Indiana, the legal provisions likely have similar counterparts in all other states. Lawyers in other states may have developed, or could develop, comparable summaries for their states.
Overview Public health attorneys and practitioners are developing incredibly useful tools to support important data sharing during the COVID-19 pandemic. We hope that you find…
This overview summarizes several key public health appropriations and policy provisions included in the Stimulus Relief bill.
In the U.S., only half the students who eat school lunch also start their day with a healthy school breakfast. This resource examines the framework of the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Programs, the school breakfast gap and its subsequent public health impacts, and the most prevalent state interventions to bridge the breakfast gap.
This issue brief examines evidence of racial disparities with respect to COVID-19 infections and deaths, possible causes, and legal protections against race discrimination. It also provides an overview of CSC planning, including key ethical features that may be utilized to ensure that CSC planning incorporates concerns about racial inequity.
