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06.12.06 :
The Public'S Health and the Law in the 21st Century
5th Annual Partnership Conference
June 12-14, 2006
Westin Peachtree Plaza
Atlanta, Georgia
Convened by the CDC's Public Health Law Program and the
American Society for Law, Medicine and Ethics (ASLME), the "The
Public's Health and the Law in the 21st Century: 5th Annual
Partnership Conference" is an annual conference for
educators, researchers, and students in public health law
as well as elected officials, public health practitioners,
physicians, nurses, attorneys, judges, and all others who
shape and apply law as a public health tool. Invited keynote
speakers include Admiral John O. Agwunobi, MD, MBA, MPH,
Assistant Secretary for Health, Health and Human Services,
Hon. Michael R. Bloomberg, Mayor, New York City, and Richard
H. Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS, U.S. Surgeon General.
Conference sessions (3 plenary and 25 concurrent) will address
such topics as: a symposium on due process in public health; a 5-session
track on all-hazards emergency legal preparedness; a track
on healthy homes, schools and communities (including: using
law for healthy homes, new legal interventions for healthy
schools, land use laws and access to tobacco, alcohol and
fast food, leveraging private investment and pro-health urban
redevelopment, and fighting gang violence); a track on law-based
interventions for healthy people (including topics such as:
education, regulation and litigation in obesity and chronic
disease prevention, science and the law of toxics, motor
vehicles and adolescents, women's health, legislative and
legal issues surrounding new vaccines for adolescents); a
track on partners in public health law (including: best practices
in faith-health partnerships, the private bar, law at the
intersection of civilian and military public health practice,
pain management and public health, and the courts); and a
track on new tools in public health law and ethics including
topics such as: ethical issues in public health law and practice,
vaccines and law, science and the adoption of laws, adoptions
of laws and health impact, and innovations and new legal
tools from the field.
CME, CLE, CNE and CHES and other CEU credits will be offered.
For additional information about continuing education credits,
please visit:
http://www2a.cdc.gov/phlp/conference2006_education.asp.
To register for the conference and for more information,
please visit:
http://www2a.cdc.gov/phlp/conference2006.asp.
Contact: Briana Grovhoug Kennedy, CDC Public Health Law
Program
Phone: 404-639-5082
Email: bgrovhoug@cdc.gov
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