Public Health Law

Harvard HSPH

The course is designed to provide students with an overview of what public health law is and how the law can be used to change health outcomes. Primary questions explored include: 1) What authority does the government have to regulate in the interest of public health? and 2) How are individual rights balanced against this authority? The course investigates these issues as they manifest in a range of specific contexts in public health and medical care, including communicable disease…