Date range: October 1, 2016 – October 31, 2016<\/p>\n
10\/25\/16\u00a0\u201cHealthy Food and Beverages in Child Care\u201d
\nPublic Health Law Center policy analyst Anna Ayers Looby presented to the CHIP NOPA Working Group regarding healthy food and beverages in child care settings, the current policy and regulatory landscape, and opportunities to improve health for all children, using a health equity lens. She presented at the Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP) \u2013 Nutrition Obesity Physical Activity (NOPA) Working Group Team Meeting in Minneapolis, Minn.<\/p>\n
10\/1\/16\u00a0\u201cTackling Tobacco Use Among the Underserved, Overlooked and Addicted: A Basic Duty of Public Health\u201d
\nPublic Health Law Center senior staff attorney Kerry Cork published a brief article in the National Association of Local Boards of Health\u2019s quarterly NewsBrief publication (Fall 2016, Vol. 2, Issue 4).
\nhttp:\/\/c.ymcdn.com\/sites\/www.nalboh.org\/resource\/resmgr\/news_story_docs\/NALBOH_Fall_2016_Newsbrief_F.pdf<\/p>\n
10\/30\/16\u00a0\u201cBehind Closed Doors: Addressing the Hidden Nicotine Epidemic in Assisted Living Residences\u201d
\nPublic Health Law Center senior staff attorney Kerry Cork gave a poster presentation at the annual conference of the American Public Health Association in Denver, Colorado.<\/p>\n
10\/31\/16\u00a0\u201cWhat\u2019s a State to Do? Regulating Electronic Nicotine Delivery Devices in the Absence of Federal Regulation\u201d
\nPublic Health Law Center senior staff attorney Kerry Cork presented with Kerry Snyder, assistant director of the Public Health and Tobacco Policy Center, at the annual conference of the American Public Health Association in Denver, Colorado.<\/p>\n
10\/31\/16\u00a0\u201cTackling Tobacco Use in the Homeless Population: An Overview of Barriers and Innovative Policies\u201d
\nPublic Health Law Center senior staff attorney Kerry Cork presented at the annual conference of the American Public Health Association in Denver, Colorado.<\/p>\n
10\/26\/16\u00a0\u201cDeveloping and Drafting Effective Tribal Laws and Policies to Promote Health\u201d
\nPublic Health Law Center senior staff attorney Mike Freiberg gave a workshop with Julie Ralston Aoki at the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona\u2019s Good Health and Wellness in Indian Country Grantee Meeting in Mesa, Arizona.<\/p>\n
10\/14\/16\u00a0\u201cSmoke-Free Public Housing Implementation\u201d
\nPublic Health Law Center staff attorney Darlene Huang presented on a panel about the range of legal and policy considerations when adopting, implementing, and enforcing smoke-free policies in public housing at the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials\u2019 (NAHRO) National Conference in New
\nOrleans, LA.<\/p>\n
10\/18\/16\u00a0\u201cSmoke-Free Public Housing Implementation\u201d
\nPublic Health Law Center staff attorney Darlene Huang presented on a panel about the range of legal and policy considerations when adopting, implementing, and enforcing smoke-free policies in public housing at the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials\u2019 (NAHRO) National Conference in New
\nOrleans, LA.<\/p>\n
10\/18\/16\u00a0\u201cPost-Deeming: Keep on Keepin\u2019 On!\u201d
\nPublic Health Law Center staff attorney Darlene Huang presented on a panel about the U.S. Food and Drug Administration\u2019s (FDA) Final Rule to regulate all tobacco products and its implications for state and local tobacco control policy at the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network\u2019s Government Relations Director Training in Bethesda, MD.<\/p>\n
10\/1\/16 Star Tribune
\nProfessor Eric Janus was quoted in the Star Tribune article, “Well-meaning family takes in sex offender, inciting fear and outrage.”
\nhttp:\/\/www.startribune.com\/well-meaning-family-takes-in-sex-offender-inciting-fear-and-outrage\/395526731\/<\/p>\n
10\/4\/16 In the Dark Podcast
\nProfessor Eric Janus appears in the “Stranger Danger” epidode of In the Dark, a popular podcast.
\nhttp:\/\/www.apmreports.org\/story\/2016\/10\/04\/in-the-dark-6<\/p>\n
10\/16\/16 The Mercury
\nProfessor Eric Janus was quoted in an op-ed piece in The Mercury, an Australian-based news source.
\nhttp:\/\/www.themercury.com.au\/news\/opinion\/talking-point-dangerous-offender-laws-the-antithesis-of-free-anddemocratic-society\/news-story\/693c890ea25e4fc04b5e2ff9e1992f54<\/p>\n
10\/10\/16 Book Chapter
\nHolding our Sex Offender Policy Accountable (Sexual Violence: Evidence Based Policy and Prevention), Springer, 2016.
\ned. by Elizabeth L. Jeglic, Cynthia Calkins<\/p>\n
10\/31\/16\u00a0\u201cRegulating E-cigarettes in a Post-Deeming World\u201d
\nPublic Health Law Center staff attorney Scott Kelly presented at the annual conference of the American Public Health Association in Denver, Colorado.<\/p>\n
10\/10\/16\u00a0\u201cIncreasing Access to Healthy Food for Low-Income Minnesotans through Mobile Food Shelves\u201d
\nPublic Health Law Center policy analyst Anna Larson moderated a Center webinar with senior staff attorney Mary Marrow that provided an overview of legal and policy issues impacting mobile food shelves, current funding and support opportunities, and some lessons learned on the ground.<\/p>\n
10\/17\/16\u00a0\u201cUsing Law, Policy and Practice to Support Access to Healthy and Safe Food in Minnesota\u201d
\nPublic Health Law Center policy analyst Anna Larson assisted in the production of a webinar that addressed key challenges and opportunities identified by Minnesota communities in their work to increase access to healthy, safe food. Senior staff attorney Mary Marrow was a panelist. The webinar was sponsored by the Public Health Law Center, MN Department of Health, MN Department of Agriculture, and University of Minnesota Extension.<\/p>\n
10\/4\/16 KARE 11
\nProfessor David Allen Larson was interviewed by KARE 11 NBC Television News regarding what could happen now that more than 4,000 striking nurses rejected Allina\u2019s contract offer yesterday. The strike began on Labor Day and already is the second longest nurses\u2019 strike in Minnesota history.
\nhttp:\/\/www.kare11.com\/news\/local\/nurses-reject-allina-contract-proposal\/328789192<\/p>\n
10\/4\/16 KARE 11
\nProfessor David Allen Larson was interviewed for a KARE 11 piece on the nurses’ strike against Allina Health.
\nhttp:\/\/www.kare11.com\/news\/local\/nurses-reject-allina-contract-proposal\/328789192<\/p>\n
10\/13\/16 KARE 11
\nProfessor David Allen Larson was interviewed by KARE 11 NBC News at 10:00 p.m. regarding the striking Minnesota Nurses Association members\u2019 decision to approve a settlement agreement with Allina Health. The union members\u2019 vote to ratify the collective bargaining agreement ends a 38 day strike, tied for the longest nurses\u2019 strike in Minnesota history.
\nhttp:\/\/www.kare11.com\/news\/health\/nurses-vote-to-approve-allina-contract-end-strike\/335920803<\/p>\n
10\/18\/16\u00a0\u201cPreemption of State and Local Tobacco Control Activity\u201d
\nPublic Health Law Center senior staff attorney Joelle Lester gave a presentation on tobacco industry efforts to use state preemption to prevent local tobacco control policy work at the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network meeting \u201cCancer Policies and Perspectives\u201d in Bethesda, Maryland.<\/p>\n
10\/10\/16\u00a0\u201cIncreasing Access to Healthy Food for Low-Income Minnesotans through Mobile Food Shelves\u201d
\nPublic Health Law Center senior staff attorney Mary Marrow presented on Center webinar with policy analyst Anna Larson that provided an overview of legal and policy issues impacting mobile food shelves, current funding and support opportunities, and some lessons learned on the ground.<\/p>\n
10\/17\/16\u00a0\u201cUsing Law, Policy and Practice to Support Access to Healthy and Safe Food in Minnesota\u201d
\nPublic Health Law Center senior staff attorney Mary Marrow presented on a webinar that addressed key challenges and opportunities identified by Minnesota communities in their work to increase access to healthy, safe food. Policy analyst Anna Larson assisted with the production of the webinar, which was sponsored by the Public Health Law Center, MN Department of Health, MN Department of Agriculture, and University of Minnesota Extension.<\/p>\n
10\/3\/16 Tobacco Control
\nPublic Health Law Center senior staff attorney Mark Meaney contributed to the article \u201cNCI\u2019s state and community research initiative: a model for future tobacco control research\u201d in the journal Tobacco Control.<\/p>\n
10\/19\/16\u00a0\u201cPreemption of State\/Local Tobacco Control Activity\u201d
\nPublic Health Law Center senior staff attorney Mark Meaney presented on preemption in tobacco control at the 7th annual Western States Tobacco Policy Directors Meeting in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n
10\/19\/16\u00a0\u201cE-Cigarette Taxation: It\u2019s Complicated\u201d
\nPublic Health Law Center senior staff attorney Mark Meaney presented on e-cigarette taxation issues at the 7th annual Western States Tobacco Policy Directors Meeting in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n
10\/15\/16\u00a0\u201cFDA\u2019s New Authority: E-Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products\u201d
\nPublic Health Law Center staff attorney Maureen O\u2019Brien presented on \u201cFDA\u2019s New Authority: E-Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products\u201d at the 7th annual Western States Tobacco Policy Directors Meeting in Portland, Oregon.<\/p>\n
10\/1\/16 Wheels of Justice
\nProfessor Thaddeus Pope helped organize and train law student volunteers for a community service event on advance care planning with the Wheels of Justice.<\/p>\n
10\/8\/16\u00a0“Bioethicists Must Engage the Public: Using Social Media to Advance Public Literacy in Bioethics”
\nProfessor Thaddeus Pope gave a presentation, “Bioethicists Must Engage the Public: Using Social Media to Advance Public Literacy in Bioethics,” at the 18th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities (ASBH).<\/p>\n
10\/8\/16\u00a0Top 10 Legal Developments in Bioethics
\nProfessor Thaddeus Pope presented the “Top 10 Legal Developments in Bioethics” at the 18th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Bioethics and Humanities in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n
10\/14\/16\u00a0“Hastening Death by Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: Clinical, Legal, Ethical, Religious, and Family Perspectives”
\nProfessor Thaddeus Pope presented “Hastening Death by Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: Clinical, Legal, Ethical, Religious, and Family Perspectives” at the Seattle University School of Law in Seattle, WA (October 14-15).<\/p>\n
10\/14\/16\u00a0“VSED Is Legal: Defending Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking”
\nProfessor Thaddeus Pope presented on VSED at the Seattle University School of Law in Seattle, WA (October 14-15).<\/p>\n
10\/15\/16\u00a0“Advance Care Planning: Make Your Choices Known”
\nProfessor Thaddeus Pope gave a presentation to the Roseville Community Health Awareness Team (CHAT) in Roseville, MN.<\/p>\n
10\/18\/16 Brain Death
\nProfessor Thaddeus Pope gave a presentation on brain death at the University of Minnesota Bioethics Proseminar in Minneapolis, MN.<\/p>\n
10\/21\/16 The New York Times
\nProfessor Thaddeus Pope was quoted in a New York Times Story about the right to die issue.<\/p>\n