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Public Health And The Law: Responding To Terrorism And Other Public Health Emergencies In New York, Mark R. Shulman
Public Health And The Law: Responding To Terrorism And Other Public Health Emergencies In New York, Mark R. Shulman
Elisabeth Haub School of Law Faculty Publications
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Law And Public Health: Beyond Emergency Preparedness, Wendy K. Mariner
Law And Public Health: Beyond Emergency Preparedness, Wendy K. Mariner
Faculty Scholarship
This Article examines three questions: What is public health? What is public health law? What roles can lawyers play in public health? It first describes the breadth of public health, highlighting six trends shaping its future: social determinants of health; synergy between medicine and public health; shifts in focus from external (e.g., environmental and social) to internal (behavioral) risks to health; federalization of public health law; globalization of health risks and responses; and bioterrorism. Because the domains of law that apply to public health are equally broad, the Article next offers a conceptual framework for identifying the types of laws …
Health As Foreign Policy: Between Principle And Power, David P. Fidler
Health As Foreign Policy: Between Principle And Power, David P. Fidler
Articles by Maurer Faculty
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From International Sanitary Conventions To Global Health Security: The New International Health Regulations, David P. Fidler
From International Sanitary Conventions To Global Health Security: The New International Health Regulations, David P. Fidler
Articles by Maurer Faculty
In May 2005, the World Health Organization adopted the new International Health Regulations (IHR), which constitute one of the most radical and far-reaching changes to international law on public health since the beginning of international health cooperation in the mid-nineteenth century. This article comprehensively analyses the new IHR by examining the history of international law on infectious disease control, the IHR revision process, the substantive changes contained in the new IHR and concerns regarding the future of the new IHR. The article demonstrates why the new IHR constitute a seminal event in the relationship between international law and public health …