Ebola, Ethics, and the WHO Getting to Yes
Earlier this week, the World Health Organization, responding both to the international outcry over the rapidly rising number of Ebola cases and deaths across sub-Saharan Africa (and critiques of the...
View ArticleWhy does Mississippi lead the nation in child immunization?
By Ross D. Silverman In the midst of the national discussion of measles and the state laws that foster or inhibit its spread, a curious fact has emerged, as noted recently by my JAMA co-author Tony...
View ArticleFor Vaccines, Public Health Protection Trumps Religious Freedom (Again)
This week, the Supreme Court appropriately declined to hear an appeal of a 2nd Circuit decision upholding the right of the state to require vaccination as a condition of enrollment in public schools,...
View ArticleIU Fairbanks School of Public Health seeks Center for Health Policy Director
I’m pleased to share with my Bill of Health colleagues that my home department, the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Indiana University Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health in...
View ArticleCorralling the Herd: California Medical Board Acts Against Anti-Vax Doc
This summer, California’s strict new childhood immunization law, barring all exemptions except those needed for medical purposes, went into effect for public and private schools, preschools, and day...
View ArticleIndiana’s Mask Mandate Debate Raises Public Health Enforcement Questions
By Ross Silverman On Wednesday, July 22, 2020, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb announced an Emergency Order to mandate mask wearing in public places beginning July 27, and indicated that violations of...
View ArticlePreventing Misuse of COVID-19 Vaccine Medical Exemptions
By Ross D. Silverman and Gabriel T. Bosslet As COVID-19 vaccination mandates become increasingly common, we can expect exemption requests (and misuse) to become increasingly widespread, too. Most...
View Article
