James G. Hodge, Jr., JD, LLM
Peter Kiewit Foundation Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor
College of Law, Director, Center for Public Health Law and Policy
Arizona State University
Sandra C. Quinn, PhD, MEd
Professor and Chair, Department of Family Science
Senior Associate Director, Maryland Center for Health Equity
School of Public Health, University of Maryland
Michelle M. Mello, MPhil, PhD, JD
Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Professor of Health Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine
Moderated by: Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, MPH
Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
Regents Professor, McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public
Health, and Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Division of
Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health
University of Minnesota
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic created a public health emergency. In response, state and federal authorities took a range of steps to control infections and deaths, including declaring emergencies, instituting crisis standards of care, calling for masking, requiring vaccination or testing, and closing sites where individuals were congregating and at risk. This has prompted reactions from gratitude to anger, as well as legislation and litigation. Now, RSV and influenza are surging, especially in children. This webinar will bring together national experts to discuss the future of public health powers, the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, and how to rebuild trust in public health institutions in communities across the country.
Co-sponsored by the University of Minnesota’s Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment, and the Life Sciences, and the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy