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PHLR Awards Scholarships to Researchers

Monday, December 20, 2010

PHLR has awarded seven travel scholarships to public health law researchers and practitioners to attend the PHLR Annual Grantee Meeting in Tempe, Arizona. This meeting provides a forum for current PHLR grantees to share research progress and findings, discuss methodological concerns and innovations, and identify effective ways to disseminate research results to inform public health law practice and policy debates. The 2011 travel scholarship winners are:

Sara Abiola, J.D., doctoral candidate, PhD Program in Health Policy, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences;

Thirteen New Studies Assess Legal Approaches to a Healthy Population

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Philadelphia, Nov. 24, 2010 –Thirteen new research projects on the public health impacts of laws and regulations on issues such as lead exposure, vaccinations, emergency preparedness, and the structure of state health agencies were funded today by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s (RWJF) Public Health Law Research (PHLR) program.

Superbugs Call for Super Changes in Drug-Sale Rules

Monday, November 15, 2010

TODAY, THE Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will launch a campaign to stop the overuse of antibiotics, which are fast becoming useless in the war against resistant infections.

The CDC is right on target. We cannot afford to simply wait for new antibiotics to solve this crisis. It takes years to develop new drugs and meanwhile resistant micro-organisms like the one carrying the NDM-1 gene are spreading fast.

Effects of Alcohol Taxes on Alcohol-Related Mortality in Florida: Time-Series Analyses From 1969 to 2004

Friday, July 23, 2010

Alex C. Wagenaar, associate director at PHLR, and Mildred M. Maldonado-Molina recently published an article in Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.

They write that more than "a hundred studies have established the effects of beverage alcohol taxes and prices on sales and drinking behaviors. Yet, relatively few studies have examined effects of alcohol taxes on alcohol-related mortality. We evaluated effects of multiple changes in alcohol tax rates in the state of Florida from 1969 to 2004 on disease (not injury) mortality."

Aaron Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH Discusses Impact of Reform on Drug Development and Patent Policy

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

This month's Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Health Policy Podcast guest is Aaron Kesselheim, MD, JD, MPH, a patent attorney, general internist and health services researcher from Harvard Medical School, and also a member of the PHLR National Advisory Commitee.

"Information and the Tragedy of the Commons"

Monday, March 29, 2010

Should the government produce information on, say, climate, employment rates, or drug safety? If so, should it make that information freely available? Or, should it charge for access or perhaps allow access only for certain uses? Indeed, should the government bar private individuals who gather data from making those data freely available? Or, should they be taxed when they make data freely available?

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