Public Health & Policy Interest Group
The Community Public Health Legal Preparedness Initiative (CPHLP)
The first project under the CDC-ABA Partnership
Has your city or state convened a Community Public Health Legal Preparedness
Workshop?
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A critical element in the nation’s efforts to prepare for public health emergencies is ensuring that members of the legal profession are expertly versed in public health emergency law so that they can offer legal advice to their clients before, during, and after an emergency. This requirement is especially important for healthcare and public health attorneys whose clients may include traditional frontline responders such as hospitals, healthcare systems, and public health agencies. The Community Public Health Legal Preparedness Initiative (CPHLPI)— the first project fully implemented under the CDC’s Memorandum of Understanding with the American Bar Association (ABA)— was developed to address this need. The American Bar Association’s Health Law Section, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Law Program (www.cdc.gov/phlp) and the non-profit Public Health Law Association (www.phla.info) have developed a template and guidance, via a Workshop Director’s Guide, for customized, intensive one-day workshops where healthcare and public health attorneys in a given community can jointly learn about the laws that define the roles and responsibilities of healthcare and public health clients in public health emergencies and natural disasters. To date, legal readiness workshops based on the CPHLPI model have been customized for delivery in 7 jurisdictions across the country.
Learn how you can serve as a Workshop Director, download the Workshop Director’s Guide, and learn more about the CPHLP Initiative, by visiting: www.cdc.gov/phlp.
