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Model Syllabus Four
Participants contributing to this outline: R. Alta Charo, Larry Levine, Holly McMahon, Terry O'Brien, Jason Sapsin
| I. | Basic Civics and Basic Public Health Sciences | |||
| a. Types of powers | ||||
| i. Executive | ||||
| 1. Agency | ||||
| 2. Administrative Law | ||||
| ii. Legislative | ||||
| iii. Judicial | ||||
| b. Applicable Constitutional Law | ||||
| i. Separation of Powers Issues | ||||
| ii. Federalism | ||||
| iii. Commerce power | ||||
| iv. Spending power | ||||
| v. Treaties | ||||
| vi. Bill of Rights | ||||
| 1. 1st Amendment (associations, religion, speech) | ||||
| 2. 4th Amendment (searches and seizures) | ||||
| 3. 5th/14th Amendments (Equal Protection/Due Process) | ||||
| 4. 10th(state powers) | ||||
| c. Structure of Public Health Programs at State and Federal Level | ||||
| d. Basic Public Health Skills | ||||
| i. Basic Epidemiology | ||||
| ii. Biostatistics | ||||
| iii. Health information services | ||||
| II. | Prevention | |||
| a. Lab/Research Regulation | ||||
| i. Addressing Personnel and Select Agents | ||||
| 1. General Regulations | ||||
| 2. Special Terrorism Rules | ||||
| ii. Civil Rights of Lab Workers | ||||
| 1. Labor/Employment Law | ||||
| 2. Immigration Law | ||||
| iii. Regulation of Research and Prohibitions | ||||
| 1. Open Question on Constitutional Authority | ||||
2. Research Coercion through spending power |
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iv. Regulation of dissemination of research results |
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| 1. Research results (1st Amendment) | ||||
| 2. Federal Rules on Classification & of other federal information restrictions | ||||
| 3. Role of Professional Self Regulation | ||||
| 4. Role of Patent law in suppressing information | ||||
| v. Medical Research/Ethics | ||||
| 1. New Prophylaxis/Vaccines | ||||
| 2. Civilian?Military, Adult?Child | ||||
| III. | Jurisdiction | |||
| a. Federal | ||||
| b. State | ||||
| c. Local | ||||
| d. International | ||||
| e. Topics | ||||
| i. Primary responders | ||||
| ii. Special regimes/New regimes and effects | ||||
| iii. Interstate conflict over cross?border disease transmission and adequacy of neighbor state's measures | ||||
| 1. Closing borders to neighbors | ||||
| f. Interstate Emergency Assistance Compacts | ||||
| g. Public Health and Law Enforcement | ||||
| h. National Security Agencies | ||||
| i. Investigation | ||||
| ii. International Cooperation | ||||
| IV. | Persons (control over) | |||
| a. Borders/Immigration | ||||
| i. National sovereignty | ||||
| ii. Intelligence gathering | ||||
| b. Restrictions on movement | ||||
| i. Isolation | ||||
| ii. Quarantine | ||||
| iii. Cordon Sanitaire | ||||
| iv. Constitutional right to travel | ||||
| c. Interstate/Intrastate | ||||
| d. Examine, Test, Treat, Vaccinate?1st Amendment Refusals | ||||
| e. Privacy and Information Sharing | ||||
| f. Refugee Management Property | ||||
| V. | Property | |||
| a. Resource allocation | ||||
| i. Medical Ethics | ||||
| ii. Professional Codes of Conduct | ||||
| b. Takings/Nuisance | ||||
| c. Public Necessity Doctrine | ||||
| d. Commerce Clause and WTO Rules on Suspending Trade due to public health risk | ||||
| e. Person/Property Combination: Ownership and management of dead bodies (1st Amendment implications) | ||||
| VI. | Employee/Employer/Personnel | |||
| a. Impressments of private citizens | ||||
| i. E.g. docs and nurses | ||||
| b. Employment issues | ||||
| i. Mandatory exposure to risk | ||||
| ii. Discrimination against refusers | ||||
| iii. Occupational health/safety rules and disparate impact on worker subgroups | ||||
| VII. | Liability and Defenses | |||
| a. Medical errors | ||||
| b. Standard of care | ||||
| c. Vaccine injuries | ||||
| d. Investigational drugs/interventions | ||||
| e. Agency proceedings | ||||
| f. Duty of government to warn public of threat? Is there sovereign immunity? | ||||
| g. Interstate conflict over adequacy of neighbor state's measures | ||||
| VIII. | Public Information | |||
| a. Role/control of media | ||||
| b. Internet regulation | ||||
| c. Private dissemination of information | ||||
| d. General prior restraint doctrine | ||||
| e. Discussion of duty to disclose | ||||
| IX. | Courts and Remedies | |||
| a. Courts | ||||
| i. State/local | ||||
| ii. Federal | ||||
| 1. State-federal conflicts (federalism) | ||||
| iii. FISA | ||||
| iv. International/Hague | ||||
| b. Role of courts (when and how they are involved) | ||||
| i. Secret/public proceedings | ||||
| ii. Emergency hearings | ||||
| iii. Expedited appeals | ||||
| c. Evidence standards | ||||
| d. Use of Experts/Special Masters | ||||
| e. Remedies | ||||
| i. Injunctions | ||||
| ii. Damages | ||||
| f. Separation of Powers | ||||
| g. State vs. federal constitution protections | ||||
| h. Administrative law | ||||
| i. Agency deference | ||||
| ii. Ultra vires doctrine | ||||
| iii. Rulemaking procedure | ||||
