Public Health Law Related to Terrorism

Lawrence O. Gostin, JD, LLD (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.

December 04, 2003

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.

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