This policy guide helps public health laboratory directors navigate challenges and legal issues related to sharing test services. It includes resources like checklists, self-assessment templates, and MOUs/contracts examples.

This article discusses the challenge of maintaining confidentiality in young adults' health care under parental insurance, highlighting the need for stronger HIPAA protections and the HITECH Act to support confidential care.

This article discusses how adopting a model statute could strengthen injury prevention efforts in state health departments, based on a Critical Opportunities presentation by Dr. Mel Kohn of the Oregon Health Authority.

This article discusses the benefits of legally requiring public health departments to be accredited, including improved performance, accountability, and community collaboration.

This article proposes that requiring pertussis vaccination for new parents before leaving the hospital could help reduce pertussis cases in infants.

This article discusses strengthening the process for obtaining nonmedical vaccine exemptions to help reduce childhood disease risks like pertussis.

This article presents a process for integrating evidence into policy innovation, focusing on legal interventions, strategies for synthesizing evidence, and fostering relationships between researchers and policymakers.

This article discusses the proposal to raise the tobacco purchasing age to 21, aiming to reduce tobacco use among minors and prevent millions of premature deaths.

This study evaluates the impact of coach education on concussion reporting in high school athletes after the passage of concussion laws, finding that video and quiz education improved coach awareness.

This research note examines boundary misspecification issues in place-based policing evaluations, highlighting how boundary adjustments by officers may skew results and impact the accuracy of crime control assessments.

This study evaluates concussion education for athletes, parents, and coaches in Washington State three years after concussion legislation was passed, highlighting disparities between sports and the overall effectiveness of the education provided.

This dataset highlights King County colleges and universities exceeding state laws to address secondhand smoke exposure and support cessation, advancing public health goals.

This LawAtlas map offers details on whether a state has laws requiring access to free STD treatment services. It also includes whether the law prohibits a patient from being billed or whether a third party may be billed.

This LawAtlas map provides information about the states where health care professionals who provide free services are immune from civil liability