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Event Detail

Public Health and Safety: Ensuring Civil Rights in a Time of Crisis

April 2, 2003

With the Honorable Ralph F. Boyd. Jr., Assistant Attorney General and Chief of Civil Rights for the United States Department of Justice

Program Description:
This program is sponsored by the Northeast Regional Public Health Leadership Institute, in collaboration with the University at Albany Center for Public Health Preparedness and the University at Albany School of Public Health Graduate Student Organization. The Honorable Ralph F. Boyd, Jr., will address issues related to public health safety and civil rights.

Objectives:
At the conclusion of the presentation, the participants will be able to:

  1. Understand the delicate balance between protecting the health and safety of the public and maintaining personal liberties
  2. Identify elements of the Patriot’s Act which provide dual protection of the public’s health and safety and individual rights
  3. Describe what practitioners need to know to ensure compliance with civil rights laws during public health emergencies

Who Should Attend:
State, county and local public health staff involved in communicable disease surveillance, epidemiology, terrorism preparedness and community disaster response planning; hospital and health care staff involved in infectious disease tracking, control and treatment; interested students; interested members of the print and broadcast media. The session is open to the public.

When:
Thursday, April 2, 2003
9:00 - 10:00 am EST

Local site:
University at Albany School of Public Health
George Education Center Auditorium
University at Albany East Campus, Routes 9 & 20 (near Interstate 787 & downtown Albany).

This project was supported under a cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) through the Association of Schools of Public Health (ASPH). Grant number U36/CCU 30430-21. The contents of this article are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC or ASPH.

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