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Legal and Policy Assistance to Address Racial Health Equity

The Network for Public Health Law

Call for Applications for Legal and Policy Assistance to Promote Racial Health Equity Deadline: September 9, 2024 Join us for an informational webinar Thursday, August 29, 2024 | 12 – 1:00 p.m. The Network for Public Health Law supports health and health equity through law and policy.

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The Network in 2025: Connecting Public Health, Community Needs, and Law and Policy Solutions

The Network for Public Health Law

A Message from Interim Co-Executive Directors Quang (“Q”) Dang and Ann Phi-Wendt “ While laws and policies can serve as barriers to health equity, they can also be used to promote health and advance equity and this is, has been, and will continue to be the focus of our work, whatever the political climate might bring.

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A Collaborative Vision for Public Health in 2024

The Network for Public Health Law

The focus on public health has increasingly shifted to state legislatures, where ideological—rather than medical or scientific—considerations are shaping policies.” and raised awareness of actions taken at all levels of government to enhance protections of abortion-related health records and data.

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The Eisenhower Principle

The Health Care Blog

For example: Employer-sponsored health insurance tax preference (WWII) Hill-Burton Act (1946) Medicare/Medicaid (1965) Federal HMO Act (1973) Stark Physician Self-Referral Law (1989) DGRs (1983) & RBRVS (1992) CHIP (1997) Medicare Modernization Act (2003) Affordable Care Act (2010).