Public Health Law Program
The Hall Center for Law and Health established its public health law program in 2004 to address the crisis in public health law facing Indiana, the nation and the world. The program is a natural extension of the Center's past work in bioethics, human rights and administrative law. The program also highlights several new grant-supported initiatives of the Center described below. The program director is Heather McCabe, JD, MSW. Ms. McCabe, a graduate of the law school, also serves as the Director of the Indiana Partnership to Prevent Violent Injury and Death (see below). The Public Health Law Program works closely with the Center's State Health Law and Policy Initiative.
Indiana Partnership to Prevent Violent Injury and Death
The Public Health Law Program of the Hall Center for Law and Health has joined forces with this IU School of Medicine-Riley Hospital for Children Program to enhance opportunities for research in the prevention of violent injury and death. The Center provides research on violence and the impact of public health policy in preventing injury and death by violent injuries with an emphasis on firearms. (See Press Release).
The Center is an active partner in the Indiana Partnership to Prevent Violent Injury and Death. The Partnership operates a firearm injury and death surveillance system based on the Harvard NIVISS system that provides information on the circumstances surrounding gun injuries and death in Marion County (metropolitan Indianapolis). The data system includes criteria to match the CDC's National Violent Death Reporting System.
Support for Public Health Law in Indiana University
A major focus of the Public Health Law program is supporting the advancement of public health law in Indiana. To that end, the Center is conducting an analysis of Indiana's public health law systems and supports. This study began with a an assessment of county health departments' perceptions of the legal support they receive funded by the Indiana State Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The assessment also investigated the views of county attorneys' towards the amount of assistance they receive in understanding public health law. The project produced a report entitled Public Health Law in Indiana: An Assessment (2005).
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- JD/MPH Joint Degree Program and Certificate in Public Health Law
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