Community and Interjurisdictional Legal Preparedness

Community and Interjurisdictional Legal Preparedness

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Panelists:

Priscilla Fox, JD, Attorney, Massachusetts Dept. of Public Health; Legal Advisor, International Emergency Management Group. Montpelier, VT
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Steven H. Hinrichs, MD, Stokes-Shackleford Professor of Pathology, Department of Pathology/Microbiology; Director, Center for Biosecurity, Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
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Anne Murphy, JD, Chief Counsel, Illinois Department of Health, Springfield, IL; President, Public Health Law Association, Atlanta, GA
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Richard Raymond, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Lincoln, NE; President, Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, Washington, DC
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Daniel D. Stier, JD, Senior Attorney Analyst, Public Health Law Program, Office of the Chief of Public Health Practice, CDC
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Moderator: James G. Hodge, Jr., JD, LLM, Executive Director, Center for Law and the Public's Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, and Washington, DC
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Learning Objectives:

Identify complex issues concerning interjurisdictional legal preparedness at the international, state, and local levels;
Explain options to strengthen interjurisdictional legal preparedness for public health emergencies; and
Evaluate alternative approaches toward addressing interjurisdictional
public health legal preparedness goals.

Resource Material:

Center for Law and the Public's Health, "Public Health Emergency Legal Preparedness Checklists" on (1) Interjurisdictional legal coordination for public health emergency preparedness; (2) Local public health emergency legal preparedness and response; and (3) Civil legal liability related to public health emergencies. All three checklists are accessible at www.publichealthlaw.net/ Resources/BTlaw.htm.

Illinois Public Health Mutual Aid System: http://www.idph.state.il.us/local/mutual.htm

Illinois Public Health Mutual Aid System Agreement: http://www.idph.state.il.us/local/mutualaidagree_9.30.04.pdf

Mid-America Alliance: Mutual Assistance for Public Health Preparedness: http://app1.unmc.edu/midameria

Priscilla Fox, Cross-Border Assistance in Emergencies: The New England/Eastern Canadian Model, New Eng. J. Int'l & Comp. L. (forthcoming)

Authority to Enact Interstate Emergency Preparedness Compacts, 42 USC Sec. 5196 (2002)

Mutual aid pacts between States and neighboring countries, 42, USC Sec. 5196a

International Emergency Management Group, International Emergency Management Assistance Memorandum of Understanding: http://www.iemg-gigu.org/mou-e.asp

This page is last updated on June 27, 2005.