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Quick, Effective Public Health Measures

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By Stephen Latham [cross-posted at his blog, A Blog on Bioethics]

I’m freshly back from the annual meeting of the Public Health Law Research program, sponsored by Robert Wood Johnson.

At most academic meetings, I prefer schmoozing in the halls to listening to the talks. That’s part personal vice, and part stage-of-career: at this point, it matters more who I talk to than whose paper I hear. This conference was different, though–perhaps because I’m new to it. A very large percentage of the papers (and posters!) repaid close attention.

But the best session of the conference, to my mind, was the “Critical Opportunities” session. The session, which is apparently an annual affair, is presented as a competition: a handful of public health law scholars are invited to present their best ideas for high-impact, evidence-based public health interventions that have a chance at actual enactment. The audience votes on which one they think is (to put it roughly) most worth peddling to health-policy folk under the banner, “Do it now!”

Yale’s Friday Newsletter – 11/02/12

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Sorry for the delay – the Petrie-Flom Center co-hosted a fantastic conference today on institutional financial conflicts of interest in research universities, which kept me away from a computer all day.  More to come on that, but without further ado, here is this week’s Yale Friday Newsletter, slightly modified for our readership.

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