The Private Bar: A Force for Public Health

The Private Bar: A Force for Public Health

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Panelists:

Mary DesVignes-Kendrick, MD, MPH, Professor of Management Policy and
Community Health, and Deputy Director Center for Biosecurity and Public Health
Preparedness, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of
Public Health, Houston, TX
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Gene Matthews, JD, Director, Institute of Public Health, Atlanta, GA
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Lori H. Spencer, JD, Attorney, Smith Moore LLP; President-Elect, Public Health Law Association, Atlanta, GA
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Susan F. Zinder, JD, General Counsel, Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY
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Moderator: J. A. (Tony) Patterson, Partner, Fulbright & Jaworski, L.L.P.; Chair, Health Law Section, American Bar Association, Chicago, IL
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Learning Objectives:

Access and use CDC-ABA materials to organize community public health legal preparedness workshops;
Access and use the AHLA Checklist to assess the emergency preparedness of hospitals and other healthcare institutions; and
Describe effective approaches to establishing partnerships between public health, legal counsel to healthcare organizations, and legal counsel to businesses.

Resource Material:

Resource materials on the ABA-CDC Community Public Health Legal Preparedness Program are available at http://www.phppo.cdc.gov/od/phlp/prepinitiative.asp These include information on the initiative, materials from recent workshops held in metropolitan areas around the country, the full Workshop Director's Guide, and transcripts of teleconferences on the initiative. The AHLA Emergency Preparedness, Response, and Recovery Checklist is available at www.healthlawyers.org/publicinterest/pub_checklist.cfm

This page is last updated on June 13, 2005.