The New Public Health Law

Scott Burris, JD, is Professor of Law and Public Health at Temple University.Micah L. Berman, JD, is Associate Professor of Public Health and Law, The Ohio State University.Matthew Penn, JD, MLIS, is Director of the Public Health Law Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office of State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support.Tara Ramanathan Holiday, JD, MPH, is a public health analyst in the Public Health Law Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Office of State, Tribal, Local, and Territorial Support.

• Introduction Section 1: Foundations of Public Health Law and Ethics 1. Public Health and Law2. The Public Health Law System3. A Transdisciplinary Approach to Public Health Law4. Ethics in Transdisciplinary Practice Section 2: Policy Development: Solving Problems with Law 5. Identifying Public Health Problems6. Choosing a Legal Approach7. Evidence for Policy: Sources and Nature of Evidence Section 3: The Power to Act: Legal Authority and Its Limitations 8. The Constitution, Federalism, and Federal Preemption9. Federal Public Health Authority10. State and Local Public Health Authority 11. Constitutional Limitations: Due Process of Law12. Constitutional Limitations: Equal Protection of Law13. Constitutional Limitations: The First and Second Amendments14. Administrative Challenges Section 4: From Policy Idea to Law on the Books: Advocacy and Legal Strategy 15. Strategic Considerations16. How to Write a Law17. Public Health Advocacy Section 5: Putting Law Into Practice: Enforcement and Implementation 18. Models of Regulation 19. The Enforcement Process 20. Defending Lawsuits Section 6: Diffusing Effective Legal Solutions: Policy Surveillance and Evaluation 21. Scientific Evaluation in Transdisciplinary Public Health Research and Practice Index

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