Congratulations to the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Health Law faculty on their accomplishments.
Date range: October 1, 2017 – October 31, 2017
Blanke, Doug
EVENT: 10/25/2017 National tobacco control strategy meeting
Doug Blanke, Joelle Lester, and Desmond Jenson of the Public Health Law Center hosted a high-level strategy meeting of national tobacco control leaders in Washington, D.C., to develop a better-coordinated public health response to the regulatory agenda of the Food and Drug Administration.
Freiberg, Mike
PRESENTATION: 10/19/2017
“Using Zoning to Encourage Healthy Retailing”
Mike Freiberg of the Public Health Law Center gave a presentation at Minnesota’s 43rd Annual Prevention Program Sharing Conference in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
PRESENTATION: 10/25/2017
“A Quick Refresher: Passing Laws at the Federal, State, and Local Level”
Mike Freiberg and Natasha Phelps of the Public Health Law Center co-presented on a Public Health Law Center webinar about passing laws at all levels of government.
PRESENTATION: 10/26/2017
“Maximizing Community Voices: Tools and Strategies to Support Healthy Eating Policy Work at the Local Level” Mike Freiberg and Julie Ralston Aoki of the Public Health Law Center participated in a panel discussion at the 2017 Food Access Summit in Duluth, Minnesota.
Frost, Natasha
PUBLICATION: 10/1/2017
Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Natasha Frost of the Public Health Law Center published the article “What Can Be Learned from Existing Investigations of Weight-Related Practices and Policies with the Potential to Impact Disparities in US Child-Care Settings? A Narrative Review and Call for Surveillance and Evaluation Efforts” in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212267217306251
PUBLICATION: 10/1/2017 The National Academies Press
Natasha Frost of the Public Health Law Center published the article “Strategies to Limit Sugar-Sweetened Beverage Consumption in Young Children: Proceedings of a Workshop—in Brief (2017)” in The National Academies Press.
https://www.nap.edu/read/24897/chapter/1
PRESENTATION: 10/27/2017
“Mankato Food System and Mankato’s Failure to Support a Food Hub”
Natasha Frost of the Public Health Law Center gave a presentation on the Mankato food system at the Food Access Summit in Duluth, Minnesota.
Hermer, Laura
MEDIA: 10/24/2017
Governing Professor Laura Hermer was was quoted in Mattie Quinn’s article, “HHS Secretary of Not, Seema Verma Could Redefine Medicaid,” in Governing.
http://www.governing.com/topics/health-human-services/gov-seema-verma-hhs-tom-price-trump.html
Huang, Darlene
PRESENTATION: 10/27/2017
“HUD’s Smoke-Free Public Housing Rule: Reasonable Accommodations and Other
Legal Issues” Darlene Huang of the Public Health Law Center presented at the 2017 National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials’ (NAHRO) National Conference in Pittsburgh, PA about reasonable accommodations and other common legal questions related to implementation of HUD’s rule. Other session panelists included HUD, NAHRO, the Philadelphia Housing Authority, Yukon Housing Corporation, and Association for Nonsmokers-MN.
Jenson, Desmond
EVENT: 10/25/2017
National tobacco control strategy meeting
Desmond Jenson, Joelle Lester and Doug Blanke of the Public Health Law Center hosted a high-level strategy meeting of national tobacco control leaders in Washington, D.C., to develop a better-coordinated public health response to the regulatory agenda of the Food and Drug Administration.
PRESENTATION: 10/26/2017
“Substantial Equivalence: Is it in Need of a Tune-up or Modification” Desmond Jenson of the Public Health Law Center presented on a panel at the Food and Drug Law Institute in
Washington D.C
Lester, Joelle
PRESENTATION: 10/11/2017
“New Direction for the FDA? What Commissioner Gottlieb’s Announcement Really
Means” Joelle Lester of the Public Health Law Center presented on the FDA’s new regulation direction and what that means for state and local policy options at the Western States Tobacco Program Managers Meeting in Portland, Oregon.
EVENT: 10/25/2017
National tobacco control strategy meeting Joelle Lester, Desmond Jenson and Doug Blanke of the Public Health Law Center hosted a high-level strategy meeting of national tobacco control leaders in Washington, D.C., to develop a better-coordinated public health response to the regulatory agenda of the Food and Drug Administration.
Marrow, Mary
PRESENTATION: 10/26/2017
“Increasing Food Access Across Minnesota: Innovative Community Initiatives Address
Unmet Needs” Mary Marrow of the Public Health Law Center gave a presentation at the Food Access Summit in Duluth, Minn., about new and emerging approaches to food access across Minnesota, including mobile grocery stores, safe routes to food, mobile food distribution, and local and regional food hubs.
PRESENTATION: 10/26/2017
“Food Safety & Regulations: Making Local Food Projects Work”
Mary Marrow of the Public Health Law Center gave a presentation at the Food Access Summit in Duluth, Minn., about the safe food sampling law and educational products available to encourage sampling at food access points.
PRESENTATION: 10/26/2017
Food Access Summit “Small but Mighty: Working with Local Governments for Big Food Access Wins” Mary Marrow of the Public Health Law Center gave a presentation at the Food Access Summit in Duluth, Minn., focusing on developing long-term relationships with local governments to improve food access through local planning and practice.
Pope, Thaddeus
PUBLICATION: 10/1/2017 BMC Medicine
Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) to Hasten Death: May Clinicians Legally Support Patients to VSED? 15 BMC Medicine 187 (2017).
PRESENTATION: 10/9/2017
“Narrowing the Gap Between Theory and Practice of Informed Consent: Ongoing Evolution to Shared Decision Making and Patient Decision Aids ”
Professor Thaddeus Pope presented the 2017 Plous Family Lecture, “Narrowing the Gap Between Theory and Practice of Informed Consent: Ongoing Evolution to Shared Decision Making and Patient Decision Aids,” at Aurora Health Care in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
MEDIA: 10/10/2017 Bloomberg BNA
Professor Thaddeus Pope was interviewed for “Providers Beware: Debate Grows Over When Death Is Really Death,” a piece for Bloomberg BNA.
https://www.bna.com/providers-beware-debate-n73014471009/
PRESENTATION: 10/17/2017 “Brain Death: New Challenges”
Professor Thaddeus Pope presented “Brain Death: New Challenges” at the Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics at the Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine.
PRESENTATION: 10/20/2017
American Society for Bioethics & Humanities 19th Annual Meeting Professor Thaddeus Pope participated in several presentations at the 19th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Bioethics & Humanities:
“Top 10 Legal Developments in Bioethics” (October 20)
“Meet the Professor” (October 20)
“Effecting Change and Impacting Policy – Law 7 Bioethics Affinity Group” (October 20)
“One Patient, or Two? Brain Death and the Pregnant Patient” (October 21)
PRESENTATION: 10/26/2017
“Fundamentals of Healthcare Decision Making by Minnesota Surrogates” Professor Thaddeus Pope gave a presentation, “Fundamentals of Healthcare Decision Making by Minnesota Surrogates,” at the Fall Aging Conference put on by the Saint Paul and Minneapolis Senior Workers Associations.
Ralston Aoki, Julie
PRESENTATION: 10/26/2017
“Maximizing Community Voices: Tools and Strategies to Support Healthy Eating Policy
Work at the Local Level” Julie Ralston Aoki of the Public Health Law Center gave a presentation at the Food Access Summit in Duluth, Minn., about a new Minnesota policy guide, a new national policy database, and other tools available to help advocates, policymakers, public health officials, researchers, and community groups understand local-level policy options for promoting healthy eating.