Public Health Emergency Legal Preparedness Items and Links

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

• Collaboration between Public Health and Law Enforcement: The Constitutional Challenge
• Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC)
  Environmental Health Assistance Project Resource List
• Federal Quarantine Law
• Hurricane-Related Information for Health Care Professionals - Licensure issues for displaced physicians
• Overview of State and Federal Quarantine Law. Briefing Memo on Interplay Between Federal & State Authority
• SARS – Information for the legal community, May 3, 2005
Other important links on this webpage:
• Checklist of legal considerations for SARS preparedness in your community, May 3, 2005
• Practical steps for SARS legal preparedness, May 3, 2005
• Legal authorities – interstate quarantine
• Legal authorities - foreign quarantine
• Executive order: revised list of quarantinable communicable diseases, April 4, 2003
• Terrorism Preparedness and Response
• Title 42-Public Health. Chapter 1, Part 70 . Interstate and Foreign Quarantine. CFR 2000

Department of Health and Human Services

• Descriptions of Selected Sections of Acts Related to Public Health Emergencies September 2005
• Terrorism and Other Public Health Emergencies: A Reference Guide for Media. Chapter 2 - Planning for the Unthinkable: Preparation and Response in Public Health (PDF). September 2005
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) - Disater Prparedness Manual

Department of Justice

• Terrorism and Domestic Preparedness

Health Resources and Services Administration

• Emergency System for Advance Registration of Voulnteer Health Professionals

American Bar Association

• American Bar Association, Health Law News Letter, June 2005
• Checklists on Legal Preparedness for Public Health Emergencies
• A Draft Checklist for State and Local Government Attorneys to Prepare for Possible Disasters.
• Interjurisdictional Legal Coordination for Public Health Emergency Preparedness, December 2004
• Local Government Public Health Emergency Legal Preparedness and Response, December 2004
• Civil Legal Liability and Public Health Emergencies, December 2004
• MidAmerica Public Health Law Emergency Response Committee

American Health Lawyers Assocaition

• Emergency Preparedness Response & Recovery Checklist

Johns Hopkins

• Office of Critical Event Preparedness And Response

National Academies

• NAP Publications and Web documents

National Association of County and City Health Officials

• Public Health Preparedness

National Conference of State Legislatures

• State Preparedness for Pandemic Flu and other Emergencies
• Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness
• Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness-Publications

National Governors Association

• Homeland Security
• Planning for Government Continuity, November, 2003
• Preparing For A Pandemic Influenza. A Primer for Governors and Senior State Officials. 7/18/06
• NGA Center for Best Practices Issue Brief on Bioterrorism and State Public Health Laws: New Challenges. 5/17/2004
• NGA Center for Best Practices Issue Brief: Beyond EMAC: Legal Issues in Mutual Aid for Public Health Practice. 12/19/05
• NGA Center for Best Practices Issue Brief on State Strategies for Fully Integrating Public Health into Home and Security. 11/28/05
• Domestic Preparedness Checklist.
• State Intelligence Fusion Centers: Recent State Actions, July, 2005

Public Health / Seattle & King County, Washington

• Planning and Managing for Isolation and Quarantine