The Public Health Law Teaching Project

In Fall of 2024, Professor Magda Schaler-Haynes and Dr. Heather Krasna were awarded CDC funding to increase implementation of public health law curricula in accredited schools and programs of public health. This Cooperative Agreement funding is part of the CDC initiative “Strengthening Public Health Systems and Services through National Partnerships to Improve and Protect the Nation’s Health.”  Today, the accredited MPH programs are not required to teach law or to meet any competencies in law. The project is an effort to make law more accessible to the public health field using established curricular resources, to support the work of local health departments and to incentivize MPH programs to offer basic courses and training in public health law. 

 

Funding Awards for The Public Health Law Teaching Project
Year Awardees
2025 Announcement

Morehouse School of Medicine Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine

University of Utah Division of Public Health, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine

Kent State University College of Public Health

2026 Announcement

George Mason University College of Public Health

UCLA Fielding School of Public Health

 

Read the 2026 Funding Opportunity Announcement [closed].

Read the 2025 Funding Opportunity Announcement [closed].

Our faculty will be speaking at a CEPH Webinar on July 20.

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