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Event Detail

Public Health Law Related to Terrorism

December 4 , 2003

With Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, LL.D

Program Description:
Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, LL.D (Hon.) is an internationally recognized scholar in law and public health. He is Professor of Law at Georgetown University; Professor of Public Health at the Johns Hopkins University; and Director of the Center for Law and the Public's Health at Georgetown and Johns Hopkins Universities (CDC Collaborating Center "Promoting Public Health Through Law": http://www.publichealthlaw.net). He is also the Co-Director of the Georgetown/Johns Hopkins Program on Law and Public Health; Faculty Affiliate for the Kennedy Institute of Ethics; and on the Steering and Executive Committees of the Institute for Health Care Research and Policy of Georgetown. He is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, Oxford University.

This program will discuss how the converging threats of biological weapons and emerging infectious diseases place public health systems under pressure to balance the public's health and individual liberties.

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

  1. Describe changes in the late 20th and early 21st centuries that have made us examine legal issues in public health.
  2. Support public health law training programs and assemble effective material for public health audiences.
  3. Identify legal issues and analysis in targeted areas relevant to public health law.

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 members of the print and broadcast media. Session is open to the public.

When:
Thursday, December 4 , 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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