Altho #PHLaw scholars are engaged in an active debate on the power of public health litigation, I am firmly on the bearish side.

Public health law is fundamentally administrative; insofar as we deregulate & enervate administrative approaches, no forms of litigation are sufficient to fill the gaps.

No Game for Boys to Play From the untimely deaths of young athletes to chronic disease among retired players, roiling debates over tackle football have profound implications for more...

@bachynski.bsky.social's tremendous book, as well as my own contribution:

uncpress.org/978146965370...

press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

5/5

#PHLaw #PublicHealthLaw #Bioethics #InjuryStudies #InjuryEpi #HistoryOfPublicHealth #SportHistory

Research supports that policy has an impact on LGBTQ health. Excited for our team to release the first dataset providing additional datapoints (e.g. enforcement mechanisms) to help researchers better understand this process. Learn more below. #LegalEpi #PHLaw

There's a Share link at which you can access the paper free, no registration required:

authors.elsevier.com/a/1m0Np3PEro...

Feedback is most welcome!

#PHLaw #PublicHealthLaw #LegalEpi #LawAndStigma #Bioethics #HealthPolicy #AddictionStudies

Important!

#PublicHealthLaw #PHLaw #ReproLaw #HealthLaw #LawIsASDoH #LawIsATechnicalField #HealthLawRocks

H/t @lynettemartins.bsky.social

#PublicHealthEthics #PHEthix #Bioethics #PublicHealthLaw #PHLaw #TBI #CollisionSports #PopulationLevelBioethics #InjuryEpidemiology #InjuryPrevention #EpiSky #SocialEpi #SocEpi

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State public health law innovation FTW #PHLaw #LawIsASocialDeterminantOfHealth

Many Minor Hits Can Damage an Athlete’s Brain

“If children start playing football a little later in life, or stop playing a little earlier, or play flag football instead of tackle, that can offer some protection, he added.”

😑😑 #PHEthx #Bioethics #PHLaw

there you go #PHLaw

Amidst the catastrophes as a field that public health is experiencing in the US, I still can't help but love and appreciate #StatePublicHealthLawInnovation #PublicHealthLaw

bernie sanders meme: "I am once again asking you to seek public health law experts on public health law questions"

This is an important moment in the US for vaccine law, federalism, & #PHLaw experts & I am absolutely begging journalists and pundits to seek out the scholarship & expertise of those who have been studying this subject for years rather than winging it or asking people Who. Are. Not. Legal. Experts.

more on ABR ... #PHEthx #PublicHealthEthics #PHLaw #PublicHealthLaw #InfectiousDiseaseEthics #GlobalHealthLaw

This is the way forward from a public health law perspective.

#PHLaw #HealthLawRocks

Important 🧵

This is straight public health law, and this analysis comes from one of the leading experts out there. #PHLaw

Accurately document the full scope of injury, illness, and impairment caused by participation in the sport. #PHLaw #PHEthx #CollisionSports #WhatKindOfPeople

Public Health Law Vacuums: A Present And Future Threat | Health Affairs Forefront The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dangerous trend: the intentional creation of public health law vacuums, in which no governance efforts are exerted to address a defined public health problem.

I just want to re-up this Health Affairs Forefront piece co-authored with @rickweinmeyer.bsky.social. We're working on the concept of a "Public Health Law Vacuum" as a form of governance failure.

Who is creating these vacuums? Why? What are the consequences? And what can we do about it? ⤵️

#PHLaw

Dr. Weinmeyer and I are working on this concept of “public health law vacuums” and seeing what, if anything, it can help with! #PHLaw

1) Law is a powerful social determinant of health

2) Reminder that the primary sovereign w/ authority to regulate for public health are states, less so the federal gov

Federalism -- both a sword and a shield and public health can be on either side of either one. #PHLaw h/t @aetiology.bsky.social

I am working on a firearms #LegalEpi project right now and law is a powerful social determinant of health eleventy #PHLaw #PublicHealthLaw

Ethics Grand Rounds ~ Everybody is a Summer Body: Weight Stigma & Injustice

I've been working for some years on the prevalence and injustice of #WeightStigma as a #PHEthx and #PHLaw problem, and I'm privileged to be giving an upcoming Ethics Grand Rounds on it @cobioethics.bsky.social. #Bioethics

Join us (remotely)!

calendar.cuanschutz.edu/event/ethics...

Inside Trump’s Plan to Halt Hundreds of Regulations (Gift Article) The White House will soon move to rapidly repeal or freeze rules that affect health, food, workplace safety, transportation and more.

“This affects airplane safety, baby formula safety, the safety of meat, vegetables and packaged foods, the water that you drink, how you get to work safely and whether you’re safe in your workplace.” #PublicHealthLaw #PHLaw www.nytimes.com/2025/04/15/u...

Supreme Court Rules Against Makers of Flavored Vapes Popular With Teens The justices handed a win, for now, to the Food and Drug Administration in its rejection of applications from makers of flavored liquids used in e-cigarettes.

Unanimous overruling of the 5th Circuit -- nice to see public health regulations surviving in the era of Loper Bright #PHLaw #AdministrativeLaw #PublicHealthLaw #ModernAdministrativeState #TobaccoControl #HealthLawRocks

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

I can't wait to dig into this overview of one of my core fields, written by one of the people most responsible for creating it. #PublicHealthLaw #WeExist #PHLaw

This is erudite and important. I'm teaching a public health law class to Honors undergrads and the current Writing Assignment asks the learners to explain the throughline connecting three critical early 20th c. #PHLaw cases (Jew Ho, Jacobsen, Buck v. Bell) -- this post illumines a LOT for them.

Photograph of the opinion in Buck v Bell projected on a computer screen

Because we needed some cheering up in my Law, Public Health, and Injustice seminar, today we covered Buck v Bell

/intensesarcasm #ITeech #PHLaw #PHEthx #HistoryMatters #Disability #DisHist

Pandemic “Disability Cons” | Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics | Cambridge Core Pandemic “Disability Cons” - Volume 49 Issue 3

And also, the important and pathbreaking work of health & disability law scholar @dorfmandoron.bsky.social on the "fear of the disability con"

#PHLaw #PHEthx #PublicHealthLaw #PublicHealthEthics #HistoryAndPolicy #WhatIsNewIsOld #Malingering #StigmaStudies #PolicyStudies #HistoryMatters

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cc @profbardlaw.bsky.social @maxwellsmith.bsky.social #PHLaw #DisabilityLaw

Honored to host Dr. @matih-id.bsky.social, Director @cityofstldoh.bsky.social, at @slu-official.bsky.social School of Law today for her 3rd Annual Lecture to my Public Health Law class! #PHLaw

table of topics and readings: Week 1 (1/21) Introduction to Public Health Law: Form & Content Wiley & Gostin, I (Public Health Law and Ethics: Definitions and Core Values); and II (The Role of Law in Public Health Problem-Solving) Week 2 (1/28) Health Justice Wiley, Lindsay F., Ruqaiijah Yearby, Brietta R. Clark, and Seema Mohapatra. “INTRODUCTION: What Is Health Justice?” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 50, no. 4 (2022): 636–40. Benfer, Emily A., and Lindsay F. Wiley. "Health justice strategies to combat COVID-19: protecting vulnerable communities during a pandemic." Health Affairs Forefront (2020). Yearby, Ruqaiijah. "The social determinants of health, health disparities, and health justice." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 50, no. 4 (2022): 641-649. Week 3 (2/4) Law as a Social Determinant of Health Dingake, O. B. K. "The rule of law as a social determinant of health." Health and Human Rights 19, no. 2 (2017): 295. Parmet, Wendy E. "Immigration law as a social determinant of health." Temp. L. Rev. 92 (2019): 931.

Week 4 (2/11) Public Health Law & The Role of the Regulatory State Kinney, Eleanor D. "Administrative law and the public's health." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 30, no. 2 (2002): 212-223. Week 5 (2/18) Recommended Deadline for Writing Assignment #1 2/17/2025 23:59. Public Health Law, Structural Violence, & Racism Nuriddin, Ayah, Graham Mooney, and Alexandre IR White. "Reckoning with histories of medical racism and violence in the USA." The Lancet 396, no. 10256 (2020): 949-951. Antoine-Jones, Aja, James J. Feigenbaum, Lauren Hoehn-Velasco, Christopher Muller, and Elizabeth Wrigley-Field. "Racial inequality in the prime of life: infectious disease mortality in US cities, 1906–1933." Social Science History 47, no. 3 (2023): 491-504. Week 6 (2/25) Public Health Law & Infectious Disease Control McClain, Charles. "Of medicine, race, and American law: The bubonic plague outbreak of 1900." Law & Social Inquiry 13, no. 3 (1988): 447-513. Jew Ho v. Williamson, 103 F. 10 (C.C.D. Cal. 1900). Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905).

Week 7 (3/4) Public Health Law & Eugenics Pernick, Martin S. "Eugenics and public health in American history." American Journal of Public Health 87, no. 11 (1997): 1767-1772. Stern, Alexandra Minna. "Making better babies: Public health and race betterment in Indiana, 1920–1935." American Journal of Public Health 92, no. 5 (2002): 742-752. Whitman, James Q. Hitler’s American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law (Princeton: Princeton University Press) (excerpts). Week 7 (3/11) Public Health Law & Involuntary Sterilization Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200 (1927). Stern, Alexandra Minna, Nicole L. Novak, Natalie Lira, Kate O’Connor, Siobán Harlow, and Sharon Kardia. “California’s sterilization survivors: an estimate and call for redress.” American Journal of Public Health 107, no. 1 (2017): 50-54. Novak, Nicole L., Natalie Lira, Kate E. O’Connor, Siobán D. Harlow, Sharon LR Kardia, and Alexandra Minna Stern. "Disproportionate sterilization of Latinos under California’s eugenic sterilization program, 1920–1945." American journal of public health 108, no. 5 (2018): 611-613. Week 8 (3/18) Public Health Law & the Manufacture of Doubt Proctor, Robert N. "The history of the discovery of the cigarette–lung cancer link: evidentiary traditions, corporate denial, global toll." Tobacco control 21, no. 2 (2012): 87-91. Goldberg, Daniel S. "Mild traumatic brain injury, the National Football League, and the manufacture of doubt: an ethical, legal, and historical analysis." Journal of Legal Medicine 34, no. 2 (2013): 157-191.

Week 9 (4/1) Recommended Deadline for Writing Assignment #2 3/31/2025 23:59. Public Health Law, Occupational Health, & Social Welfare Policy Rosner, David, and Gerald Markowitz. "A short history of occupational safety and health in the United States." American Journal of Public Health 110, no. 5 (2020): 622-628. Goldberg, Daniel S. "Doubt & social policy: The long history of malingering in modern welfare states." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 49, no. 3 (2021): 385-393. Week 10 (4/8) Public Health Law & the Courts Wendy E. Parmet, From Deference to Indifference: Judicial Review of the Scope of Public Health Authority During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 17 St. Louis U. J. Health L. & Pol'y(2024). Available at: https://scholarship.law.slu.edu/jhlp/vol17/iss1/3 Week 11 (4/15) Public Health Law & Stigma Burris, Scott. "Disease stigma in US public health law." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 30, no. 2 (2002): 179-190. Bayer, Ronald. "Stigma and the ethics of public health: not can we but should we." Social science & medicine 67, no. 3 (2008): 463-472. Burris, Scott. "Stigma, ethics and policy: A Commentary on Bayer’s ‘Stigma and the ethics of public health: not can we but should we.’” Social science & medicine 67, no. 3 (2008): 473-475. Blake, Valarie K., and Mark L. Hatzenbuehler. "Legal remedies to address stigma‐based health inequalities in the United States: challenges and opportunities." The Milbank Quarterly 97, no. 2 (2019): 480-504.

Here are some of the topics & readings for my CU Denver Honors course on "Law, Public Health, & Injustice." #PHLaw #PHEthx #PublicHealthLaw #HealthJustice #ScholarTeacher #HonorsProgram #StructuralViolence #LawIsASocialDeterminantOfHealth #LegalEpi #HealthLawRocks

cc @bachynski.bsky.social

My position here is different, based on a health sciences campus. I love the work here too, but I do miss working with Honors students (nationally, 75% of whom are pre-health professional) and so I'm just thrilled to finally have the time and space to make it happen!

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#PublicHealthLaw #PHLaw

Once more, with feeling:

The evidence is plain - and was predicted - that Medicaid work requirements have little effect on labor outcomes and instead have as their primary effects disenrollment (or, in this case, preventing enrollment altogether).

#PHLaw #Stigma #PublicHealthLaw #PHEthx