Teaching Population Health Outcomes Research,Advocacy,and the Population Health Perspective in Public Health Law

Abstract

The goal of this project was to expand an existing public health law curriculum to incorporate lessons on population health outcomes research, extra-legal advocacy, and the population health perspective. The project also created opportunities for students not only to read about and discuss concepts, but also to employ the lessons more practically through exercises and by writing white papers on public health law reform topics relevant to population health in Missouri. To do this, the project expanded an existing didactic course and created a new credit-bearing, experiential “Lab.”

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For a description of this fellowship program, see

Scott

, “Transforming the Future of Public Health Law Education through a Faculty Fellowship Program,” Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 44, no. 1, Supp. (2016): 6–17.

Network for Public Health Law, “Public Health Law Faculty Teaching Resources,” available at <https://www.networkforphl.org/faculty_teaching_resources/> (last visited January 12, 2016) (this site is password protected; faculty may request a password from the Network on the site) (see “Public Health Law” syllabus by Gatter in the Syllabi section of the website).

See id., at “Medicaid Backlog” advocacy exercise in the Case Studies section of the website. Thanks to Cora Drew Walker for developing and teaching this exercise with me.

See id., at “Ebola Hypothetical” in the Case Studies section of the website.

Id., at “E-Coli Hypothetical Memorandum” in the Case Studies section of the website.

See supra notes 2, 4, and 5.

See Network for Public Health Law, supra note 2, at “Public Health Law Research Lab” in the Syllabi section of the website.

See The Guide to Community Preventative Services: What Works to Promote Health(known as “The Community Guide”), available at <http://www.thecommunityguide.org/> (last visited January 12, 2016).

See Public Health Law Research, “Law Atlas: The Policy Surveillance Portal,” available at <http://lawatlas.org/welcome> (last visited July 26, 2015).

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See Network for Public Health Law, “Topics and Resources,” available at <https://www.networkforphl.org/topics__resources/topics__resources/> (last visited January 12, 2016).