EVENT DETAILS

Event Name: Using Law, Policy and Research to Improve the Public's Health

Start Date: 2010-09-13

End Date: 2010-09-15

Location: Loews Atlanta Hotel, Atlanta, Georgia

Event Description: The goals of this conference are to (1) examine the role of law and policy in promoting, protecting, and improving global and domestic public health; and (2) help build effective partnerships to accomplish public health law and policy objectives.

Content: In addition to plenary and training sessions, an array of concurrent sessions during the conference are designed to address the major themes in communicable and chronic disease prevention and control (including lessons learned from H1N1 influenza); global, national, tribal, state, and local health law and policy; research in public health law and policy; relationships among public and private partners, and critical, emerging issues.

Who Should Attend: international, national, state, tribal & local individuals who are:
elected and appointed officials involved in creating or enforcing international or domestic public health laws; public health practitioners and legal counsel in the public sector; lawyers in the private sector who represent health care providers, health advocacy organizations, or other clients that may have a significant interest in the public's health; physicians, nurses, and other health care workers in public health and clinical practices; judges, clerks, and their staffs active in public health and health care issues; scholars, educators, researchers, and students with focus areas in health care, public health science or practice, or public health law, ethics, or policy; and persons interested in the use of law as a tool for improving the public's health

Fee:: Before Aug. 13 - member: $195; non-member - $245

Registration Required?: Yes

For More Information: For full conference information details, go to http://www.aslme.org/Calendar