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ICYMI, A Health Podyssey featured Cory Cronin of Ohio University discussing his recent paper on identifying opportunities and understanding how to best align hospitals’ needs assessments and community health In Ohio.

Judicial Constraints on Public Health Powers

Michelle Mello of Stanford University and coauthors assess how public health legal powers have become increasingly constrained during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

Using federal and state court decisions between March 2020 and March 2023, they determine that legal challenges made against public health officials indicated deference to religion, destabilized vaccination law, and strong pushback against agency discretion.

Mello and coauthors conclude that “courts often disrupted long-held assumptions about the scope of public health powers.”

More on Regulation

• Expanding Licensure Portability And Access To Care: Lessons Learned During COVID-19 by Humayun J. Chaudhry
• The Supreme Court Ruling That Blocked Providers From Seeking Higher Medicaid Payments Also Undercut The Entire Program by Nicole Huberfeld
• A Health Podyssey: Maeve Wallace on States’ Abortion Laws Associated With Intimate Partner Homicide Rates

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Lawsuit Challenges Administration Requirements For Fixed Indemnity Health Plans

Zachary Baron

Celebrating Pride Month

It is Pride Month and we are highlighting  those working to advance health equity and policy for the LGBTQIA+ community.

In a March 2024 article, Lorraine T. Dean and coauthors argue that legal challenges to cost sharing could substantially increase PrEP abandonment and HIV rates, upending progress on the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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