Competencies: Courses, Tools, & Resources
Competency-Based Training Courses
- Public Health Emergency Law 3.0 Public Health Emergency Law 3.0 is targeted at public health practitioners and emergency management professionals to improve their understanding of the role of law in public health emergency response.
- Public Health Law 101 Public Health Law 101 is a foundational course on public health law as a learning resource for public health practitioners, students, and others.
- Social Distancing Legal Preparedness The Social Distancing Law Project sampled jurisdictions in 2007 to assess the sufficiency of their legal preparedness to implement social distancing effectively and as a result, created an assessment template.
- Forensic Epidemiology 3.0 Forensic Epidemiology 3.0 is designed to help public health and law enforcement agencies strengthen their coordinated response to pandemic influenza and similar prevention disease outbreaks.
Tools & Resources
- Bench Book Portfolio A collection of bench books used by judges as functional practice guides for understanding public health law.
- Multi Sector Documents This collection of documents includes templates and guidelines that can be used to aid in developing collaborative agreements for differing sectors and jurisdiction in preparation for public health emergencies and events.
- Mutual Aid Mutual Aid can be effective tools to assist U.S. state and local governments, Tribes, Canadian provinces, First Nations, and Mexican states in sharing information, data, supplies, resources, equipment, or personnel for the purpose of protecting the public’s health.
Contact Us:
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Public Health Law Program
Yale Building, Koger
Atlanta, GA 30341 - 800-CDC-INFO
(800-232-4636)
TTY: (888) 232-6348
24 Hours/Every Day - cdcinfo@cdc.gov
