The Public Health Infrastructure Team provides legal and policy capacity-building assistance to public health managers in Tribal, local, state, and territorial health departments across substantive areas.
It tackles foundational legal questions about public health authority and provides training and tools so that public health professionals have the legal knowledge, skills, and abilities to advance equitable public health policies. Please reach out to us at: phlc.phi@mitchellhamline.edu.
The Public Health Infrastructure Team provides legal and policy capacity-building assistance to public health managers in Tribal, local, state, and territorial health departments across substantive areas.
It tackles foundational legal questions about public health authority and provides training and tools so that public health professionals have the legal knowledge, skills, and abilities to advance equitable public health policies. Please reach out to us at: phlc.phi@mitchellhamline.edu.
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HIPAA Data Breach Video Series

Learn the basics of addressing a HIPAA data breach through a four-part video series from our Public Health Infrastructure team. Follow the interim privacy officer of the fictional Deer Glen Health Department as he navigates a data breach with support from an experienced public health attorney.

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Featured Resources

  • A healthcare worker wearing gloves and working on a laptop and referecing a graphic sharing rates of healthcare system capacity of an unknown disease with and without protective measures

    Data Sharing 101

    To help public health professionals increase their understanding of public health data sharing practices, the Public Health Law Center created this toolkit of introductory resources about data use agreements.

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    Tribes’ Access to Public Health Data

    This resource aims to address some common questions that come up related to Tribal data sharing.

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    Data Use Agreements for Public Health Surveillance

    This webinar describe the elements of a data governance and compliance framework and explain what a data use agreement is and when you need one. It introduces basic concepts related to data use agreements for public health surveillance. 

    Watch the Webinar

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  • Political & Legal Determinants of Health - Limits of the New Administration

    The Political and Legal Determinants of Health

    Staff attorneys from the Public Health Law Center and panelists Dawn Hunter and Professor Micah Berman as they discuss how the new presidential administration will impact key political and legal determinants of health.

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    Executive Orders & Public Health Practice: FAQs

    In response to the recent flurry of federal executive orders, Act for Public Health (the Center is a member organization) presents these FAQs to help readers understand executive orders, the goals and limits of their application, and how public health practitioners might think about them.

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    What is Legal Technical Assistance?

    This resource shares examples of how the Public Health Law Center can provide tailored legal research and analysis, educational resources, policy drafting assistance, trainings, and litigation support to improve public health across a community.

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