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Improving Competencies for Public Health Emergency Legal Preparedness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Kristine M. Gebbie ,
James G. Hodge Jr. ,
Benjamin Mason Meier ,
Drue H. Barrett ,
Priscilla Keith ,
Denise Koo ,
Patricia M. Sweeney  and
Patricia Winget
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This paper is one of the four interrelated action agenda papers resulting from the National Summit on Public Health Legal Preparedness (Summit) convened in June 2007 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and multi-disciplinary partners. Each of the action agenda papers deals with one of the four core elements of legal preparedness: laws and legal authorities; competency in using those laws; and coordination of law-based public health actions; and information.

This action agenda offers options for consideration by those responsible for or interested in ensuring that public health professionals, their legal counsels, and relevant partners understand the legal framework in which they operate and are competent in applying legal authorities to public health emergency preparedness.

Competencies are critical to an individual's ability to make effective legal response to all-hazards public emergencies.

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Special Supplement
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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 36 , Issue S1 , Spring 2008 , pp. 52 - 56
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2008

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