Agenda
May 11 (Monday) DAY 1
(Focus
on key concepts and laws in surveillance and prevention)
8:30 - 8:40 Welcome and overview Dr. Janet Collins, Ph.D.
- Director, NCCDPHP
8:40 - 9:15 Panel discussion: NCCDPHP and other CDC senior
leaders on public health law, policy, and selected NCCDPHP program priorities
9:15 - 10:15 Key Concepts of U.S. Law in Public Health Practice
Faculty: P. Kocher, JD – OGC/CDC (biography
PDF-14KB)
10:15 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 11:30 Privacy and Confidentiality Faculty: G. Horlick,
JD – CDC Office of Scientific and Regulatory Services (biography
PDF-14KB)
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch
12:30 - 1:30 Law of Surveillance: The Cases of Hemoglobin
A1c Reporting and Cancer Registries Faculty: T. Merrill, JD – NYC Dept.
of Health (biography PDF-15KB),
and J. Stettner, JD – OGC/CDC (biography
PDF-14KB)
1:30 - 3:00 Law in the Prevention / Control of Tobacco Use
and Tobacco-related Disease: Soup to Nuts Faculty: R. Daynard, JD, PhD
– Northeastern Law, and Tobacco Control Resource Center, Boston (biography
PDF-15KB)
May 12 (Tuesday) DAY 2
(Focus
on chronic disease topics & public health law theme areas)
8:30 - 8:40 Welcome and Day 2 overview Dr. Janet Collins,
Ph.D. - Director, NCCDPHP
8:40 - 9:55 Law in the Prevention / Control of Obesity: The
Case of Requirements for Menu Labeling Faculty: T. Merrill, JD – NYC
Dept. of Health (biography PDF-15KB)
9:55 - 10:10 Break
10:10 - 11:30 Role of the Legal Counsel and Legal Considerations
for Working at CDC Faculty: J. Stettner, JD – OGC/CDC (biography
PDF-14KB)
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch
12:30 - 1:30 Constitutional Considerations in Chronic Disease
Prevention and Control: the First Amendment and Commercial Speech Faculty:
R. Bonnie, JD – Univ. Virginia Law (biography PDF-18KB)
1:30 - 2:30 Law and Health Promotion: The Case of Increasing
Physical Activity Faculty: F. Alexander, JD – Emory Law School (biography
PDF-15KB)
2:30 - 3:00 NCCDPHP Division Directors’ Perspectives: Implications
for Uses of Law in Support of NCCDPHP Priorities NCCDPHP Division Directors
