Center for Law and the Public's Health

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Center for Law and the Public’s Health

About the Center

The Johns Hopkins Center for Law and the Public’s Health enhances the effectiveness and visibility of law as a tool to protect and promote the public’s health. Center faculty explore innovative uses of the law and conduct legal and empirical research in diverse areas related to public health, often working closely with policymakers and public health practitioners.

The Center also engages in education, training, collaboration, dissemination of information and the translation of research findings, and serves as a resource for practical and scholarly information about public health law.

In The News

Paul Locke published new op-ed in the Baltimore Sun on solutions to pet surrender

Joanne Rosen published two new articles in JAMA:

She also published a third article in Contraception: When doctors are "doxxed:" An analysis of information posted on an antiabortion website

Highlights

Selected Research Topics

Emergency Preparedness

Center faculty have been at the forefront of developing and assessing legal approaches to enhance emergency preparedness and response efforts at the local, state, and federal levels.

Preemption

Center faculty have researched and analyzed the effects of preemption on varied public health topics including obesity and clean indoor air.

Public Health Litigation

Center faculty published the early scholarship that established the framework for conceptualizing litigation as a means to protect the public’s health.

Tobacco

Center faculty study and assess the use of law as a tool to promote tobacco control efforts including state and local legal initiatives and litigation against tobacco manufacturers.