Public Health Law: Theories and Cases

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This course explores how the law can be utilized to promote, or impede, proposed public health interventions at the local, state, federal level. Students review key theories of public health law that examine the role of the legislature, executive agencies, and the courts in crafting, executing, reviewing public health policy. This course is geared towards MPH students in Public Health Policy and Management track, and no prior training in law or legal analysis is assumed.