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Leslie Hoglund, PhD, Clinical Assistant Professor in the School of Community & Environmental Health at Old Dominion University, recently worked with legislators and colleagues in Virginia to pass SB 192, which amended and expanded qualification requirements for local health directors, redesigning a restrictive policy that left nearly one-quarter of districts without permanent leadership. We spoke with Dr. Hoglund to learn more about how this transpired, any lessons learned in advocacy and policy support, and what’s next.

 

Launching a new course is an exciting endeavor, if a little nerve-wracking, for the faculty member introducing the content to its newest audience. Juan Hincapie-Castillo, PharmD, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology at UNC-Chapel Hill Gillings School of Global Public Health, jumped into the pool spring semester 2024 with Chapel Hill’s newest course for graduate MPH and PhD students: Introduction to Legal Epidemiology.  

 

No matter how carefully the rest of a legal epidemiology study is designed and conducted, if the legal data are not transparent and rigorous, the study’s findings must be considered unreliable. Here are three important factors to consider when assessing legal data sources.

 

We created a special set of valentines for you to share with all those you care about. Feel free to download and share these legal epi valentines. Tag us if you post on social media! ❤️

 

Addressing the opioid crisis cannot stop at providing better access to treatment for opioid use disorder (OUD), expanding and enhancing harm reduction efforts, and reimagining the role of law enforcement, as explored previously in this blog series. The response must go further to make treatment and harm reduction more effective, by acknowledging the opioid epidemic as a reflection of the conditions of the whole society, identifying those conditions, and addressing them head-on. A whole-person response to OUD and other substance use disorders needs a well-coordinated whole-of-government response to address myriad societal issues that are critical to effective drug treatment, including, but not limited to, housing, education, economic development, and tax policy.   

 

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