Events
Act for Public Health partners and experts host periodic webinars, trainings, and other events to share resources and guidance, discuss the current legal landscape, and review evidence-based best practices to support public health departments and other leaders. Register for an event or review recordings of past events related to public health authority.
Events & Webinars
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Teaching Public Health Law in a Time of Judicial Activism
Since 2021, the US Supreme Court has handed down decisions that have upended public health law. This free webinar, hosted…
Public Health Academy Training: Preemption & Public Health
The legal concept of preemption — the authority of a higher level of government to limit or even eliminate the…
Protecting and Improving Local Public Health Authority to Advance Our Collective Health
Attend this webinar to hear from your colleagues about the spectrum of efforts across local public health to protect and…
Public Health Priorities for the 2024 State Legislative Sessions
Find out the top public health priorities for state legislative sessions in this February 2024 webinar hosted by APHA and…
Trends in Vaccination Law and Judicial Challenges
Join Act for Public Health for an exploration of recent legislative and judicial trends related to vaccine law and policy,…
Protecting Public Health Authority – Law, equity & the public health workforce
Listen to this webinar to learn about actionable ideas, promising policy interventions, and equitable policymaking strategies to support public health departments’…
Public Health’s Preemption Problem: Key Health Justice Impacts and Updates
Attend this webinar to learn about the current U.S. preemption landscape in these arenas through the lens of health equity…
Toward an Empowered and Trusted Public Health System: Learnings from COVID-19 Era Bright Spots Policies
Join the Network for Public Health Law as part of Act for Public Health, a law and policy collaborative seeking to…
Fighting for Public Health: How Do We Strengthen Public Health Advocacy at Local, State, and National Levels?
Watch this webinar to obtain insights and the key take-aways from a feasibility study, commissioned by the Network, in which public…
Act for Public Health: Assessing Legislation and Litigation Impacting Public Health Authority
Watch this webinar to learn about the work of Act for Public Health, including law and policy surveillance; tracking state…
Making the Case for Public Health
In a webinar, Berkeley Media Studies Group (BMSG) and Real Language offered framing and communication recommendations to help public health…
Efforts to Rollback Public Health Authority: Tracking the Legislation and Assessing the Impact
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, legislators in every state have introduced bills that would limit public health authority to respond to…
Public Health Advocacy: The Basics
This one-hour webinar, hosted by the American Public Health Association and ChangeLab Solutions, aims to help new and seasoned advocates…
Federal Vaccine Mandates: Assessing their Legalities
Following the development and authorization of safe and effective COVID-19 vaccines and boosters, the Biden administration enacted a series of…
Judicial Trends: Recent Case Decisions with Long-term Implications for Public Health
All of these and more will be unpacked in this rapid webinar session, which will provide key updates on recent…
Public Health Under Threat: An Examination of State Laws Protecting Public Health Officials from Harassment
This webinar will examine these findings, analyze public health official turnover, and discuss the most common concerns and issues faced…
Equitable Rebuilding from COVID-19: Strengthening Protections for Communities
Join us for a discussion of how we can strengthen our public health emergency response and address the inequities that…
Proposed Limits on Public Health Authority: Dangerous for Public Health
This webinar, presented jointly by the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) and the Network for Public…
Ensuring Changes in Emergency Powers and Public Health Authority Will Protect Health
Even as most in public health, health care, and emergency services are focused on getting vaccines in arms and responding…