Training and Educational Resources

The Public Health Law Program (PHLP) develops and shares a growing portfolio of courses and other learning materials in applied public health law. This section features selected learning resources for public health lawyers, public health practitioners, students, and others. Overview of PHLP Training Opportunities[PDF – 244 KB]

General

Public Health Law Academy
Free, online training created to provide an understanding of the basics of our legal system and the use of law and policy for improving population health outcomes.
Public Health Law Competency Model: Version 1.0[PDF – 459KB]
PHLP’s competency model provides a framework for the knowledge, skills, and abilities expected of entry-level, supervisory, and executive-level public health practitioners in public health law. The model is for attorneys, public health practitioners, legal educators, and policy makers seeking a benchmark for satisfactory or exemplary public health law understanding and performance.
Public Health Law and Legal Epidemiology
This Preventive Medicine Grand Rounds presentation provides an overview of public health law and legal epidemiology and is presented by staff from CDC’s Public Health Law Program.
Public Health Law 101
Public Health Law 101 is a foundational course on public health law as a learning resource for public health practitioners, students, and others.
CDC Fellowship, Internships and Externships in Public Health Law
Learn firsthand how law can be used as a tool to protect and promote the public’s health. Consider a fellowship, internship, or externship with CDC’s Public Health Law Program.

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Emergency Preparedness

Legal Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies: A Model for Minimum Competencies for Mid-Tier Public Health Professionals[PDF – 363KB]
Presents a model set of Minimum Competencies in Public Health Emergency Law for mid-tier public health professionals to advance the inclusion of law-based content in all public health emergency training, resources, and tools. Developed at the request of CDC’s Center for Preparedness and Response and the Association of Schools of Public Health.
Forensic Epidemiology 3.0
Training package designed to help public health and law enforcement agencies strengthen their coordinated response to pandemic influenza and similar disease outbreaks.
Public Health Emergency Law Online Training
Training to help public health practitioners and emergency management professionals improve their understanding of the role of law in public health emergency response.
Law and Epidemic Emergency Preparedness (LEEP) Online Training
Self-paced, e-learning course to help public health practitioners, lawyers, and emergency management professionals improve their understanding of the use of law during a large-scale communicable disease response.
Suggested Communicable Disease Vignettes (California Department of Health Services)[PDF-45KB]
Intended to train users to describe communicable disease scenarios that are disruptive to safe court operations, identify health benefits of various precaution methods, and define factors that result in infectious disease transmission.

Disclaimer: Information available on this website that was not developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) does not necessarily represent any CDC policy, position, or endorsement of that information or of its sources. The information contained on this website is not legal advice; if you have questions about a specific law or its application you should consult your legal counsel.

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