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Non-State Actors and Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

By Rossella De Falco Strong, well-coordinated and resilient public health care services play a vital role in preventing and responding to public health crises. What are, however, the specific legal and ethical implications of involving private actors in health care vis-à-vis public health emergencies?

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Public Health Product Hops

Bill of Health

APRIL 24, 2023

Regulatory and patent exclusivity periods govern the timing of generic entry, and because market share and revenue is often quickly lost upon market entry of generic drugs, extending market exclusivity for any duration can be extremely profitable. But perhaps other forms of public health benefit would outweigh these harms?

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Public Health Law’s Future Begins in the Classroom

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

By Taleed El-Sabawi The use of emergency public health powers by state and local governments during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic led to intense public criticism followed by legislative attempts (include some successes) to strip state executives of this authority. What does the future hold?

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Human Rights Principles in Public Health Emergencies: From the Siracusa Principles to COVID-19 and Beyond

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

One of us (LG) was involved in the drafting of the Siracusa Principles, which have become the chief international instrument governing permissible human rights limitations during national emergencies. The inadequacy of Siracusa in the the context of public health emergencies Then came COVID-19.

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Conclusion to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

JANUARY 18, 2024

While receiving significant global traction and acceptance since their publication in 1985, the Siracusa Principles, the authors argue, proved to be simply “unequal to the task” of guiding States’ conduct in the context of COVID-19 because they are “unable to speak in any significant detail to the particular concerns of public health crises.”

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Failures of Imagination in Public Health Policy

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

By Daniel Swartzman If public health is to prosper, we will need to overcome the after-effects of several failures of imagination. Failing to use litigation against inadequate public health actions, as did the early civil rights and environmental movements. Failing to demand moral leadership of governmental actors.

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Old Dogs and New Tricks: A Case for the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

One of the most glaring reasons for this failure was that the Kenyan government simply did not know how to do so. They clarify these obligations within the context of public health emergencies and provide clear guidance for States and members of society on how to navigate these emergencies.

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Introduction to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 24, 2023

By Roojin Habibi, Timothy Fish Hodgson, and Alicia Ely Yamin Today, as the world transitions from living in the grips of a novel coronavirus to living with an entrenched, widespread infectious disease known as COVID-19, global appreciation for the human rights implications of public health crises are once again rapidly fading from view.

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The Public Health Case Against Gas Appliances

Bill of Health

MARCH 10, 2023

Health Justice Moreover, viable replacement options to those appliances are both readily available and cheaper than ever due to funding provided through the Inflation Reduction Act. The post The Public Health Case Against Gas Appliances appeared first on Bill of Health.

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The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: Responding to Public Health Emergencies by Upholding Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law

Bill of Health

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It has been an important forum for enabling States to address the fault lines in national public health systems, bridge gaps in global health security and policy, and strengthen collective efforts to build back better. Supply chains must be strengthened, diversified, and kept open during public health emergencies.

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Employers and the Future of Public Health

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

By Sharona Hoffman As state and federal public health authority erodes, employers may increasingly find themselves playing a central role in promoting public health. In the future, they may frequently take the lead in implementing public health measures. Sharona Hoffman is the Edgar A.

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How the Supreme Court’s Judicial Activism Compromises Public Health

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

By John Culhane The United States Supreme Court poses a serious threat to public health, but not because the majority of the justices are necessarily opposed to laws and policies designed to protect and further public health and safety. Yet OSHA has rules governing ladder safety.) In West Virginia v.

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For Public Health, U.S. Consumers See Opioids, Obesity, and Guns Top 3 Public Health Threats – But Lowering Healthcare & Drug Costs is Job 1 for Government

Health Populi

AUGUST 27, 2023

Americans cite opioids and fentanyl, obesity, and access to guns and firearms as the top three public health challenges this summer of 2023, according to the new Axios/Ipsos American Health Index. As for government priorities dealing with public health, though, U.S. The post For Public Health, U.S.

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Context Matters: Affirmative Action, Public Health, and the Use of Population-Level Data

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 4, 2023

He explained: “The Government must treat citizens as individuals, not as simply components of racial, religious, sexual or national class.” Applied to public health, the SFFA Court’s rejection of population-level factors would also lead us to overlook the factors that cause the most illness on a population level.

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The public health emergency is over. Here’s why the government must prioritize funding for long COVID research.

Healthcare Dive

JUNE 9, 2023

Professors at the University of Arizona argue for more robust infrastructure to understand and research long COVID-19, which impacts one in five Americans.

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Experts, government outline healthcare strategies for gun violence prevention at Northwell's annual forum

Fierce Healthcare

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Providers, researchers and government officials gathered Tuesday to discuss the "urgent public health crisis" of gun violence and throw their weight behind a new multimillion-dollar aware | The event, which emphasized the role of healthcare professionals in addressing gun violence, came with the announcement of an industry-backed, multimillion-dollar (..)

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Vaccine credentials enabling wider progress on public health interoperability

Healthcare It News

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Brian Anderson, chief digital health physician at MITRE Corporation, and Bryant Karras, chief public health informatics officer and senior epidemiologist at Washington State Department of Health, will offer an update on the progress of the Vaccine Credential Initiative, and other initiatives like it.

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AI in Digital Health: Autonomy, Governance, and Privacy

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The following post is adapted from the edited volume AI in eHealth: Human Autonomy, Data Governance and Privacy in Healthcare. Which regulatory, ethical, and legal principles can best orient the construction of precision public health interventions and the implementation of technology-powered medicine?

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Improving the Future of Public Health by Applauding Appropriate Judicial Oversight

Bill of Health

MARCH 2, 2023

Kapp During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Public Health Establishment (PHE)/legal enterprise collaborative fell short of constitutional standards in a number of situations, resulting in adverse judicial rulings of which the PHE and its like-minded academic advocates now complain. By Marshall B.

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Eight Opportunities to Use the Law to Address Social Determinants of Health

Bill of Health

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

HUD can amend 24 CFR §982.553 to narrow public housing exclusions linked to drug use to situations in which a person’s use of illegal drugs is causing observable harm to the premises or the community, and tighten key definitions to better guide local public housing agencies. Code § 32) by making the tax credit monthly.

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New Legal Mapping Method Highlights Recent Laws Limiting Public Health Emergency Orders

Bill of Health

JANUARY 13, 2022

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, legislators in almost every state have introduced bills that would limit state executive authority to respond to the current pandemic or future public health emergencies. Research for the dataset was provided by the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Tennessee).

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Trust is a Superpower for Public Health – The 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer Through the Health Lens

Health Populi

APRIL 18, 2024

Less than 50% of people living in 16 countries do not trust government, media, or NGOs to do what is right to address their health needs and concerns, based on the responses from over 15,000 people living in 16 countries whose opinions are captured in the 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer’s Special Report on Trust and Health.

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Seven Opportunities to Use the Law to Address Drug Policing

Bill of Health

JANUARY 2, 2024

By Jon Larsen and Sterling Johnson There is a well-established whole of government response to drug policing centered around the “war on drugs.” Policy changes must be considered to replace acknowledged failures and reimagine the whole of government response to drug policing.

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Federal Failures to Protect Incarcerated People During Public Health Crises

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 1, 2022

Decarceration would obviously go a long way in stopping the ongoing harms of COVID-19 in prisons and jails, and preventing such harms from future pandemics and public health crises. Going forward, official public health guidance issued to and about prisons and jails should be worded in mandatory language.

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The UN Must Take Steps To Be an Accountable Player in Public Health

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

If a government commits a tort, it can be sued — but the United Nations cannot be. In at least two major incidents in the last two decades, the United Nations has been responsible for major public health crises, and victims of the crises have found themselves with no recourse in any court system. By Bailey Kennedy.

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The COVID-19 public health emergency is ending. Here’s what’s changing.

Modern Healthcare

MAY 11, 2023

The federal government waived rules and created flexibilities to ease the burden on the healthcare sector during the COVID-19 public health emergency. Most of them will end Thursday.

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The Tax Code Needs to Do More for Public Health

Bill of Health

MAY 18, 2022

Other areas where the government allows Americans to deduct expenses tend to be reactive, rather than proactive. This seems to indicate that the government has a specific vision of the steps that Americans should take to get healthy — and that simply isn’t a vision that will work for everyone.

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Federal Government Unveils Draft Health IT Strategy for Public Comment

HIT Consultant

MARCH 27, 2024

– The draft 2024-2030 Federal Health IT Strategic Plan focuses on improving access to health data, creating a more equitable healthcare experience, and modernizing public health data infrastructure. This aligns with the recent HITI-1 rule, promoting transparency and equity in healthcare delivery.

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Bioethics Experts vs Ordinary South Africans on the Governance of Human Genome Editing

Bill of Health

JUNE 28, 2023

In the same year that the deliberative public engagement study on heritable HGE was conducted in South Africa, an expert advisory committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) published its policy proposals for a global governance framework for HGE.

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U.S. Government Renews COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, Extending Health Benefits for Millions of Americans

The Health Law Firm Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On July 15, 2022, the United States again renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency, allowing millions of Americans special access to free tests, vaccines, and treatments. The public health emergency was initially declared in January 2020, when the [.]

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Improving Job Quality and Scheduling Predictability Can Advance Public Health and Reduce Racial Inequities

Bill of Health

APRIL 1, 2022

government officials and media celebrate recent economic gains , women — especially women of color — are not recouping their economic losses. Law can be a powerful tool to advance public health , and workplace scheduling is no exception. Public health agencies can play a key role in labor and employment law.

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How Low-Code Development Will Deliver The Future of Public Health Services

HIT Consultant

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Meanwhile, public health — a sector where these benefits could have far-reaching impact — has been relatively insulated from this revolution. But probably the biggest reason why low-code development hasn’t been taken up by public health IT leaders with the same enthusiasm is data privacy. That’s all changing, however.

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Why Do Municipal Governments Impede Local Efforts at Health?

Bill of Health

MAY 6, 2022

A few of these happy people will probably be harvesting something else along with their vegetables: a hefty fine from their municipal government. The guide itself refers the prospective gardener to a number of other ordinances that might also govern the project, including, most ominously, the zoning code.

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Congress Extends Flexible Telehealth Rules Past Official End of COVID Public Health Emergency

Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 22, 2022

For some time now, special pandemic rules have been in effect which allowed providers to offer various forms of government-funded telehealth. However, if no action was taken to head this off, these rules were due to expire with the official end of the COVID-19 public health emergency.

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3 Ways Government Can Catalyze Biomedical Innovation

HIT Consultant

MAY 30, 2023

What You Should Know: Deloitte has published some new research about how government can advance biomedical innovation and improve public health. The rapid development of COVID-19 therapeutics demonstrated a transformative approach by the government in promoting innovation.

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Governing Health Data for Research, Development, and Innovation: The Missteps of the European Health Data Space Proposal

Bill of Health

MARCH 23, 2023

By Enrique Santamaría Together with the Data Governance Act (DGA) and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the proposal for a Regulation on the European Health Data Space (EHDS) will most likely form the new regulatory and governance framework for the use of health data in the European Union. health data).

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5 Public Health Challenges to Watch in the Post-Pandemic Era

HIT Consultant

JULY 11, 2022

What You Should Know: – Public health agencies across the US are at a crossroads, finds the Reimagining Public Health Survey produced by Ernst & Young LLP (EY US). Key Public Health Obstacles Post Covid-19. To move forward, public health leaders should clarify strategy from the top-down.

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U.S. Government Renews Coronavirus Public Health Emergency, Extending Health Benefits for Americans

The Health Law Firm

AUGUST 1, 2022

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On July 15, 2022, the United States once again renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency, allowing millions of Americans special access to free tests, vaccines, and treatments. Since then, the Department of Health and Human Services has renewed it each quarter.

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Judging in the Pandemic – A Malawian Perspective

Bill of Health

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

By Zione Ntaba Malawi is not a stranger to public health crises in the last number of years, having faced a severe HIV epidemic and several cholera outbreaks continuing into 2023. It is with this context in mind that I turn to reflecting on the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies (“Principles”).

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How Retailers Are the New Public Health Purveyors

Health Populi

JULY 15, 2020

In that moment, a Fortune 100 company stepped an entire foot, and not just a toe, into public health waters. [I I covered that event with joy here in Health Populi as soon as it was announced months earlier on February 14th]. The company re-branded from CVS/pharmacy to CVS Health. That was a watershed moment in U.S.

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COVID-19 Showcased Failed Global Cooperation

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 26, 2023

However, the deep wounds of the pandemic remain, compelling those concerned about this pandemic and future health emergencies to account for catastrophic failures by those in power. Public health emergencies aren’t entirely preventable. That has created deep inequities in access to health products that can save lives.

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Tort Liability is a Potentially Powerful Tool for Pandemic Response

Bill of Health

OCTOBER 14, 2022

When pandemic response efforts are hampered by inadequate enforcement resources and political polarization, tort liability could, potentially, be a powerful public health tool. public health infrastructure has historically relied heavily on state and local authorities. Neither the U.S. Neither the U.S.

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U.S. Government Renews COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, Extending Health Benefits for Millions of Americans

The Health Law Firm Blog

JULY 18, 2022

Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Health Law On July 15, 2022, the United States again renewed the COVID-19 public health emergency, allowing millions of Americans special access to free tests, vaccines, and treatments. The public health emergency was initially declared in January 2020, when the [.].

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Uninsured rate fell 18% during pandemic, CDC finds

Healthcare Dive

MAY 17, 2023

The findings reflect government subsidies aimed at boosting healthcare access during the pandemic, and requirements that states keep Medicaid beneficiaries on their rolls during the public health emergency.

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Non-State Actors and Public Health Emergencies

Public Health Product Hops

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Public Health Law’s Future Begins in the Classroom

Human Rights Principles in Public Health Emergencies: From the Siracusa Principles to COVID-19 and Beyond

Conclusion to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

Failures of Imagination in Public Health Policy

Old Dogs and New Tricks: A Case for the Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights & Public Health Emergencies

Introduction to the Symposium: From Principles to Practice: Human Rights and Public Health Emergencies

The Public Health Case Against Gas Appliances

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe: Responding to Public Health Emergencies by Upholding Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law

Employers and the Future of Public Health

How the Supreme Court’s Judicial Activism Compromises Public Health

For Public Health, U.S. Consumers See Opioids, Obesity, and Guns Top 3 Public Health Threats – But Lowering Healthcare & Drug Costs is Job 1 for Government

Context Matters: Affirmative Action, Public Health, and the Use of Population-Level Data

The public health emergency is over. Here’s why the government must prioritize funding for long COVID research.

Experts, government outline healthcare strategies for gun violence prevention at Northwell's annual forum

Vaccine credentials enabling wider progress on public health interoperability

AI in Digital Health: Autonomy, Governance, and Privacy

Improving the Future of Public Health by Applauding Appropriate Judicial Oversight

Eight Opportunities to Use the Law to Address Social Determinants of Health

New Legal Mapping Method Highlights Recent Laws Limiting Public Health Emergency Orders

Trust is a Superpower for Public Health – The 2024 Edelman Trust Barometer Through the Health Lens

Seven Opportunities to Use the Law to Address Drug Policing

Federal Failures to Protect Incarcerated People During Public Health Crises

The UN Must Take Steps To Be an Accountable Player in Public Health

The COVID-19 public health emergency is ending. Here’s what’s changing.

The Tax Code Needs to Do More for Public Health

Federal Government Unveils Draft Health IT Strategy for Public Comment

Bioethics Experts vs Ordinary South Africans on the Governance of Human Genome Editing

U.S. Government Renews COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, Extending Health Benefits for Millions of Americans

Improving Job Quality and Scheduling Predictability Can Advance Public Health and Reduce Racial Inequities

How Low-Code Development Will Deliver The Future of Public Health Services

Why Do Municipal Governments Impede Local Efforts at Health?

Congress Extends Flexible Telehealth Rules Past Official End of COVID Public Health Emergency

3 Ways Government Can Catalyze Biomedical Innovation

Governing Health Data for Research, Development, and Innovation: The Missteps of the European Health Data Space Proposal

5 Public Health Challenges to Watch in the Post-Pandemic Era

U.S. Government Renews Coronavirus Public Health Emergency, Extending Health Benefits for Americans

Judging in the Pandemic – A Malawian Perspective

How Retailers Are the New Public Health Purveyors

COVID-19 Showcased Failed Global Cooperation

Tort Liability is a Potentially Powerful Tool for Pandemic Response

U.S. Government Renews COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, Extending Health Benefits for Millions of Americans

Uninsured rate fell 18% during pandemic, CDC finds

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