‘The Week in Health Law’ Podcast

By Nicolas Terry

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This week we talked with Scott Burris, who is a Professor of Law at Temple Law School, where he directs the Center for Health Law, Policy and Practice, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Research on Policy and Law program. He is also a Professor in Temple’s School of Public Health. We discussed Scott’s extraordinary work at the National Coordinating Center for Policies for Action, the Policy Surveillance Program, and the Public Health Law Research National Program Office. Public health law tracking and assessment tools are meant to subject policymaking to rigorous, data-driven studies of comparative effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis. Consider, for example, recent controversies regarding the overall effect of helmet laws. Scott discussed the methodological questions raised by such assessments and law tracking, and new directions for public health law.

The Week in Health Law Podcast from Frank Pasquale and Nicolas Terry is a commuting-length discussion about some of the more thorny issues in Health Law & Policy.

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Show notes and more are at TWIHL.com. If you have comments, an idea for a show or a topic to discuss you can find us on twitter @nicolasterry @FrankPasquale @WeekInHealthLaw

Nicolas P. Terry

Nicolas Terry is the Hall Render Professor of Law at Indiana University McKinney School of Law where he serves as the Executive Director of the Hall Center for Law and Health and teaches various healthcare and health policy courses. His recent scholarship has dealt with health privacy, mobile health, the Internet of Things, Big Data, AI, and the opioid overdose epidemic. He serves on IU’s Grand Challenges Scientific Leadership Team, working on the addictions crisis and is the PI on addictions law and policy Grand Challenge grants. His podcast is at TWIHL.com, and he is @nicolasterry on Twitter.

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