The Newsroom
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) 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...
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 (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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Conference and Webinar Calendar
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Webinar03/17/2010 - 2:30pm - 3:30pm
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04/20/2010 (All day) - 04/22/2010 (All day)
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09/13/2010 (All day) - 09/15/2010 (All day)
