Public Health Law Annual Partnership Conference - June 13-15, 2005 - Atlanta, GA

Public Health Law Annual Partnership Conference
June 13-15, 2005 - Atlanta, GA
Sheraton Midtown Atlanta Hotel at Colony Square
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Public Health Law Program and the American Society for Law, Medicine & Ethics cosponsor the annual public health law conference: The Public's Health & the Law in the 21stCentury. The 2005 conference will focus on innovative legal tools for improved public health with emphasis on information participants can use in day-to-day practice. The conference faculty will reflect the multidisciplinary composition of the conference participants, exploring cutting-edge issues at the intersection of public health and the law and presenting concrete examples of law as a public health tool, both domestically and internationally.
Preliminary Conference Tracks and Topics Include:
Track 1: Life Stages
- The Early Years: Lead Poisoning Prevention
- The Early Years: Exploring Options for Expanded
Newborn Screening
- Childhood Immunization: Exemptions and Vaccine Safety
- Preventing Victimization of Youth and Teens
- Domestic Violence in the Adult Years
Track 2: Partners & Powers
- Reducing the Risk-Drugs and Schools: Medical Management and Illegal Use
- What Should be the Scope of Practice for Public Health
Professionals and Volunteers?
- The Media, Law and the Public's Health
- Attorneys General as Public Health Officials
- Therapeutic Jurisprudence: Using the Law to Improve the Public's Health
Track 3: Public Health Emergency Legal Preparedness
- Joint Consequence Management of Public Health
Emergencies
- Quarantine Laws and Public Health Realities
- Community and Interjurisdictional Legal Preparedness
- Judicial Preparedness For Public Health Emergencies
- The Private Bar: A Force for Public Health
Track 4: Legal and Scientific Frameworks
- Legal Issues and Cancer Prevention
- Policy Makers & Science: Two-Way Communication
- From Science to Policy to Healthy Outcomes
- Legal Frameworks for Preventing Chronic Disease
- Shaping Healthy Environments
Track 5: Cross-Cutting
- Public Health Ethics in Action
- Post-SARS Public Health Law Developments in Canada
- Migration, Law, and the Public's Health
- International Trade Agreements: Vehicles for Better Public
Health?
- Motor Vehicle Injuries: U.S. and Global Legal
Interventions