Webinars

More and more state and local governments are using equity impact assessment processes for proposed legislation and other decisions to drive better, more informed decision-making. These processes frequently focus on racial and health equity impacts. They are designed to predict whether proposed policies are likely to create, perpetuate, mitigate, or reduce health inequities, creating opportunities for public awareness, engagement, and policy improvement.

State legislatures are increasingly adopting “food freedom” laws expanding food distribution by exempting retailers like those at farmer’s markets and seaside docks from food safety regulations. At the same time, both food waste and food insecurity are growing. Both the safety, and the health and wellness of those living in the U.S., are threatened by these trends. Attend this webinar to learn about the food freedom trend in the U.S., as well as law and policy levers that can reduce food waste, and address food insecurity.

Overview January 23 | 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. CTThere are many opportunities for the public health community to leverage AI to advance public health goals…

Join the Network for Public Health Law and the Legal Resource Center for Public Health Policy for a discussion focused on two significant areas of federal cannabis policy with critical public health implications:  the rescheduling of cannabis and the regulation of intoxicating hemp-derived products.

The 2024 election will have a lasting impact on democracy, the social determinants of health, and public health authority. Join the Network for Public Health Law, Institute for Responsive Government, and the Missouri Center for Public Health Excellence for a discussion about building systems that increase trust in government, and in turn, a healthy democracy that enables the public’s health to also flourish.

Join us for a discussion of how the law can provide guidance in defining your public health work. Hear from colleagues about how they are navigating a challenging post-pandemic landscape and how the way in which we approach our work shapes public health practice, the law that governs our practice, and the public’s health.

Join us for a webinar introducing the Network’s  Racial Equity Dataset. This searchable database includes bills proposed and enacted in the 2021 and 2022 legislative cycles in the wake of the renewed racial justice movement in 2020 and the COVID-19 pandemic.   Features of the laws that were enacted, and that were still in effect on December 31, 2022, were compiled into a cohesive dataset, created using policy surveillance methods, to provide insight into the outcomes of those legislative sessions. Legislation identified, though not exhaustive, provides a bird’s eye view and a peek into relevant legal trends across the country.

The Network seeks to support local, state, and tribal governments, health departments, community-based groups or organizations, nonprofits, professional associations, health care systems and providers, and others in their efforts to eliminate deep, systemic, and racially driven inequities in public health. Join us for a webinar outlining our recently released Legal and Policy Assistance to Address Racial Health Equity call for applications (RHE CFA) to support work on racial health equity. We are seeking applicants developing or working on a specific issue that prioritizes racial equity that would benefit from legal and policy technical assistance. We can assist with work that is at any stage of development.

Attend this webinar to hear from public health colleagues about the spectrum of efforts across local governmental public health to improve their legal authority to advance the public’s health and health equity. These efforts span years, and in some cases, were activated or accelerated following either the murder of George Floyd or the increased backlash against fundamental public health authorities and services during the COVID-19 pandemic, or both.

The Network for Public Health Law’s Harm Reduction Legal Project, in collaboration with ChangeLab Solutions, is hosting a series of four webinars funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to introduce two forthcoming resources that policy decision makers can use to support their work to advance policies to reduce overdose and other drug-related harm. Each webinar will introduce the resources, Preventing Overdose & Reducing Drug-Related Harm: A Policy Guide for State and Local Change and Implementing State and Local Overdose Prevention Policies: A Resource for Navigating the Policy Process. The individual webinars will additionally provide specific information on policies most relevant to one of four sectors: community, criminal/legal, healthcare, and schools (K-12). In this session – focused on the schools sector – a guest speaker will discuss their experience implementing harm reduction policies, including strategies and challenges, and answer questions from attendees.

The Network for Public Health Law’s Harm Reduction Legal Project, in collaboration with ChangeLab Solutions, is hosting a series of four webinars funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to introduce two forthcoming resources that policy decision makers can use to support their work to advance policies to reduce overdose and other drug-related harm. In this session – focused on the healthcare sector – a guest speaker will discuss their experience implementing harm reduction policies, including strategies and challenges, and answer questions from attendees.

The Network for Public Health Law’s Harm Reduction Legal Project, in collaboration with ChangeLab Solutions, is hosting a series of four webinars funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to introduce two forthcoming resources that policy decision makers can use to support their work to advance policies to reduce overdose and other drug-related harm. In this session – focused on the criminal/legal sector – a guest speaker will discuss their experience implementing harm reduction policies, including strategies and challenges, and answer questions from attendees.