Public Health Law

Catalog description

Public health law speaks to the legal aspects of delivering public health interventions to the society. This course introduces students to the functions and outcomes of public health law from local to global and provides a hands-on legal tool for public health protection and practice. It covers a variety of topics such as civil liberties in matters such as quarantine, isolation and mandated medical testing; access to healthcare and health disparities; incentives to vaccine makers, authorization of drugs in declared public health disaster/emergency situations, international law on controlling spread of infectious diseases, the role of the World Health Organization and other global entities in protecting public health, and public health issues arising from migrants and refugee problems.