A Rightful Place for Public Health in American Law

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See Coggan D. Rose G. Barker D.J.P. , Epidemiology for the Uninitiated (London: BMJ Publishing Group, 1997). This 70-page book provides a fine introduction to the methods of epidemiology.

Goodman R.A. , “Other Branches of Science Are Necessary to Form a Lawyer: Teaching Public Health in Law Schools,”

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 30, no. 2 (2002): 298–301. This commentary persuasively explains why all law students should have the opportunity to take a course in public health law.

Northeastern University School of Law and Tufts University School of Medicine began accepting students in a dual degree J.D./M.P.H. program in September 2001.

Bragdon v. Abbott, 524 U.S. 624, 654 (1998).

Id. at 657, 573–74 (Rehnquist, C.J., dissenting).

Lorillard Tobacco Co. v. Reilly, 533 U.S. 525 (2001).

With a grant from the Bauman Foundation, faculty members at Northeastern University School of Law and Tufts University School of Medicine have created a Public Health Advocacy Institute, where a project on public health literacy will develop materials to introduce public health aspects of currently studied cases into existing law school courses.