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Des Moines Register, March 7, 2010

Tony Leys, who writes about health for the Des Moines (IA) Register, interviewed PHLR Methods Core member Jeffrey Swanson for March 7 story about the relationship between mental illness and violence, and the unfortunate public image of ...

Trust for America's Health (TFAH), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), March 2010

Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's (RWJF) report examines how the economic downturn could lead to serious cuts to disease prevention and emergency preparedness programs at the state level.  Researchers...

PHLR, February 10, 2010

Philadelphia (Feb. 10, 2010)—The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Public Health Law Research (PHLR) program today released its second  call for proposals (CFP) for studies that will examine the public health impacts of laws and legal...

Trust for America's Health, December 2009

Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released the seventh annual Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health from Diseases, Disasters, and Bioterrorismreport, which finds that the H1N1 flu...

NACCHO, January 2010

The National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) is including a first-ever public health research track at its 2010 Annual Conference from Wednesday, July 14 through Friday, July 16 in Memphis, TN. This presents a unique...

RNMCT, January 2010

The Research Network on Mandated Community Treatment has awarded a matching grant to the University of Virginia team of PHLR researchers looking at the implementation of Virginia’s newly-enacted Health Care Decisions Act (HCDA) to...

PHLR, December 7, 2009

Philadelphia (Dec. 7, 2009)—The Public Health Law Research Program (PHLR) of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) today announced 15 new research grants that will help policymakers and researchers understand how laws can affect public health...

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, December 2009

Evan D. Anderson, J.D., a senior legal fellow at PHLR at Temple University Beasley School of Law, and James G. Hodge Jr., J.D., LL.M., write that local legal preparedness is an essential component of effective public health emergency response in...

Richmond Times-Dispatch, Dec. 20, 2009

Researchers at the University of Virginia will take part in a study looking at the implementation and effects of Virginia's revised mental-health laws spurred by the Virginia Tech shootings. The Public Health Law Research project of the Robert...

Arizona Republic December 13, 2009

PH writer Ginger Rough in the Arizona Republic laid out a solid  argument for public health law research: 

"As Congress works feverishly to overhaul our ailing health-care system, at least one weighty question has gone largely...

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