This article discusses an interdisciplinary and community-engaged public health law course that was developed as part of The Future of Public Health Law Education faculty fellowship program. Law and public health students worked collaboratively to assist a local health department in preparing for the law-related aspects of Public Health Accreditation Board review.
Get full access to this article
View all access options for this article.
References
1.
Ohio Rev. Code § 3701.13 (2015); M.Crane, “Ohio’s Public Health Agencies Must Now Meet Standards,”Columbus Dispatch, July27, 2015; Public Health Accreditation Board, “About PHAB,” available at <http://www.phaboard.org/about-phab/> (last visited January 5, 2016). For a general overview of PHAB accreditation, see W. J. Riley, K. Bender, and E. Lownik, “Public Health Department Accreditation Implementation: Transforming Public Health Department Performance,” American Journal of Public Health 102, no. 2 (2012): 237–242.
Public Health Accreditation Board, Standards and Measures, supra note 2, at 158.
4.
Id., at 160.
5.
See generally C.Scott, “Transforming the Future of Public Health Law Education through a Faculty Fellowship Program,”Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics44, no. 1, Supp. (2016): 6–17.
6.
The syllabus for this course is available online through the fellowship program’s teaching resources library. See Network for Public Health Law, “Public Health Law Faculty Teaching Resources,”available at <https://www.networkforphl.org/faculty_teaching_resources/> (last visited August 5, 2015) (this site is password protected; faculty may request a password from the Network on the site) (see “Public Health Law” in the Syllabi section of this website).
7.
M. L.Berman, M.Freiberg, and J. RalstonAoki, “From Fenway Park to the Mall of America: A Multi-Collaborative Approach to Teaching and Learning,”University of Dayton Law Review38, no. 1 (2012): 157–173.
Public Health Law Research, LawAtlas, available at <http://lawatlas.org/welcome> (last visited January 5, 2016).
10.
The research methods used by the students in conjunction with LawAtlas are detailed in S. Burris, “A Technical Guide for Policy Surveillance,” Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-34, Oct. 10, 2014, available at <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2469895> (last visited January 5, 2016). The 14 cities covered by FCPH are all suburbs of Columbus. Columbus, the largest city within Franklin County, has its own LHD which is already PHAB accredited.
11.
The case study may be found through Network for Public Health Law, “Public Health Law Faculty Teaching Resources,”available at <https://www.networkforphl.org/faculty_teaching_resources/> (last visited January 5, 2016) (this site is password protected; faculty may request a password from the Network on the site) (see “Public Health Law” in the Case Study section of this website).
12.
See S.Burris, A. C.Wagenaar, and J.Swanson, , “Making the Case for Laws that Improve Health: A Framework for Public Health Law Research,”Milbank Quarterly88, no. 2 (2010): 169-210, at 170 (“Notwithstanding all the writing and commentary on public health law, there has been little discussion of public health law research and its place in the fields of law and public health.”).
13.
D.Presley and S.Burris, “A Scan of Existing 50 State Survey and Policy Surveillance Resources,” Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-01, January 8, 2015, available at <http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2523011> (last visited January 5, 2016), at 1 (defining “legal epidemiology” as “the scientific study of law as a factor in the cause, distribution and prevention of disease in a population”).
14.
Public Health Accreditation Board, Standards and Measures, supra note 2, at 162.
15.
L. S.Anderson, “Incorporating Adult Learning Theory into Law School Classrooms: Small Steps Leading to Large Results,”Appalachian Journal of Law5, no. 1 (2006): 127–149.
16.
M. L.Berman, “Defining the Field of Public Health Law,”DePaul Journal of Health Care Law15, no. 2 (2006): 45–92.
