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Environmental Public Health Law: Issues
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Presentations Readings
State Legislative Initiatives
Training
- The "Swimming with Sharks: Environmental Health in the Context
of Litigation" DVD, produced by the Southern Center for Excellence
in Environmental Health is a concise, 30-minute review of issues that
front-line public health practitioners encounter in responding to litigation
and in using litigation as tool to advance the health of the public
health.
The learning objectives of this course are to understand:
- how to carry out your important functions when litigation is
occurring around you,
- what you need to know if you are the target of litigation, and
- how litigation can be a tool for you to use in enforcing regulations.
"Swimming with Sharks" features Dr. Howard Frumkin, formerly
Director of the Southern Center of Excellence in Environmental Health
Practice at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, and
currently Director of the National Center for Environmental Health at
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and B. Suzi Ruhl,
JD, with the Environmental Law Institute, along with public health professionals
and attorneys working in, and advising, Georgia public health agencies.
"Swimming with Sharks" was produced by the Southern Center
for front-line public health professionals, managers and legal counsel
in local and state public health agencies, and schools of public health.
This resource is in the public domain. Choose from the links below to
download "Swimming with Sharks".
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The CDC Public Health Law Program welcomes your feedback on this
course—and your suggestions for additional public health law-related
training—contact Andrea Hines, Program Analyst, PHLP, at
Ahines@cdc.gov.
CDC Links
Non-CDC Links
- Pittsburgh Journal
of Environmental and Public Health Law
- National Environmental Health
Association
Presentations
- "The Healthy Homes Initiative:
The Role of Law," December 8, 2006. A presentation by Doug Farquhar,
JD, National Conference of State Legislatures Denver, Colorado.
(PowerPoint Presentation)
- "Healthy Homes,"
December 8, 2006. A presentation by M. Deborah Millette, MPH, Division
of Emergency and Environmental Health Services National Center for
Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
(PowerPoint
Presentation)
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"Using Law for Healthy Homes," December 8, 2006. A presentation
by Priscilla Keith, JD and Dana Reed Wise, Health and Hospital Corporation
of Marion county Indianapolis, Indiana.
(PowerPoint Presentation)
Readings
- Paul A. Locke, Henry Falk and Chris Kochtizky, "Environmental
Health and Protection", Law in Public Health Practice (2002).
(PDF file).
State Legislative Initiatives
The following state legislative initiatives were identified and provided
by the CDC-NCEH Built Environment Work Group.
- California. ASSEMBLY
BILL No. 437 This bill will authorize the county health officers
to provide assistance to cities and counties with regard to public
health issues relating to local land use and transportation planning
processes.
(PDF file).
- Florida. 37-1196A-07
This bill will revise the intent of the Legislature regarding the
mission of the state's public health system, the Department of Health's
duty to monitor and regulate factors in the environment which affect
the public health, and the functions of the public health system
with regard to local planning and development activities.
(PDF file).
- Maryland. Maryland
Healthy Places Act An act requiring the Secretary of Health
and Mental Hygiene to establish an Interagency Working Group to
discuss certain environmental health concerns.
(PDF file).
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