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. 

In June of 2025, the first three programs selected from a highly competitive applicant pool were announced. The institutions receiving funding awards are Morehouse School of Medicine Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine; University of Utah Division of Public Health, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine; and Kent State University College of Public Health.

A funding announcement is now open for applications.