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Researchers to examine issues ranging from youth concussion and distracted driving laws to food safety and hospital acquired infections.
PHLR and the Beasley School of Law are co-sponsoring a major international conference on the the inter-relationship of law enforcement and public health in Melbourne, Australia, November 11-13, 2012, LEPH 2012: The First International...
PHLR has awarded five travel scholarships to public health law researchers and practitioners to attend the 2012 PHLR Annual Grantee Meeting in New Orleans.
PHLR grantees released an info brief of an evaluation of the legal intent, implementation, and outcomes of the 911 Good Samaritan Law.
September 24, 2011- Dr. Carla Campbell was interviewed about her PHLR-funded study of Philadelphia's Lead Courts byWHYY-FM/Newsworks.org.
September 19, 2011 - The Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law invites submissions of papers for a special issue on public health law research (PHLR) planned for early 2013. The journal will accept five to seven...
September 6, 2011 - PHLR Director Scott Burris, JD, will speak at "Applying Policy Research to Public Health Practice" - a short course offered by the Learning Institute of...
August 25, 2011 - PHLR invites submission of abstracts for oral presentation at the PHLR Annual Meeting in New Orleans, January 18-20, 2012. Abstracts should be no more than three pages in length and should focus on public health law research...
PHLR will be accepting Rapid Response Letter of Intent through December 29, 2011. After this date this Call for Proposals will be closed. We may issue a new CFP next year. Click...
August 23, 2011 - The National Institutes of Health today released recommendations or best practices for scientists conducting mixed methods health research. Mixed methods research combines the strengths of quantitative research and qualitative...
August 18, 2011 - The August Public Health Law Webinar is now available online. This webinar was intended to inform public health practitioners, their legal counsels and elected officials about the legal and political implications of...
August 8, 2011 - PHLR Methods Core member, Jeffrey Swanson, PhD, from Duke University, has been selected as a joint recipient of the 2011 Carl Taube Award, an honor given by the Mental Health Section of the American Public Health Association...
July 27, 2011 - Through research, evaluation, and collaboration, DAR aims to develop the capacity of NIMH to help close the gap between the development of new, research-tested interventions and their widespread use by those most in need.
July 28, 2011 - PHLR, in partnership with the Network, ASLME, and PHLA, sponsored the latest webinar in the PHL Webinar Series, "Concussions and Youth Sports: Can the law prevent injury?"
June 24, 2011 - Gene W. Matthews, J.D., and his team from the North Carolina Institute for Public Health have released a report upon completion of their 18-month PHLR study on public health agency accreditation.
Their research report,...
June 21, 2011 - The law has been a critical factor in many public health efforts such as decreasing tobacco use and reducing drunken driving. For the Public's Health: Revitalizing Law and Policy to Meet New Challenges, a new report from the IOM,...
June 16, 2011 - How will the era of health reform impact health outcomes, particularly, public health outcomes? This webinar, discussing CER and investigating this question, is now online.
June 23, 2011 - Public Health Law Research has selected 43 applicants from its third call for proposals (CFP) to submit a full proposal. Full proposals are due on July 26, 2011. Currently, PHLR has an open Rapid Response CFP. Future funding...
June 6, 2011 - A comprehensive survey of state distracted driving provisions, conducted by PHLR's Jennifer Ibrahim, Evan Anderson, Scott Burris, and Alex Wagenaar, was published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine this month. According...
May 19, 2011 - Public Health Law Webinar, Fracking – Is It Just a Dirty Word? Environmental and Public Health Considerations of Hydrofracturing, is now available online This webinar examined the health and environmental hazards of...
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