Overview | Session Materials | Student Abstracts |
Background | Evaluation & CE Credits | Acknowledgements

 
Overview

On June 13-15, 2005, CDC's Public Health Law Program and the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics and additional partners convened the fourth annual partnership conference entitled "The Public's Health & the Law in the 21st Century" in Atlanta, Georgia.  The conference explored innovative legal tools for improved public health while emphasizing concrete examples of law as a public health tool, both domestically and internationally.

Over 600 participants attended the conference including elected officials who make public health laws, public health practitioners and legal counsel, physicians and nurses in public health and clinical practice, emergency management and law enforcement officials, judges and attorneys active in public health and health care, educators and researchers in public health law, as well as others active in, and interested in, law as a tool for improved public health.

• Explaining the critical role law plays in protecting the health of the public and in strengthening the public health system for potential emergencies
• Describing practical approaches to applying legal tools to today's top-priority public health issues
• Identifying and assessing scientific and other evidence for law-based public health strategies, and
• Building partnerships with colleagues across professional boundaries

This page is last updated on May 24, 2005.