PHLP staff frequently author or contribute to research on a variety of public health topics. The following reflects a sample of their work.

State and Local Financing Options

Economic & Planning Systems, the Public Health Law Program, and Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP, "Regulatory Fee Assessments: Nutrition-Related Municipal Services," prepared for the law firm of Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger, April 2005.

Tobacco Control

Feighery, Ribisl, Schleicher, Zellers and Wellington, "How Do Minimum Cigarette Price Laws Affect Cigarette Prices at the Retail Level?" Tobacco Control (BMJ Publishing Group) 14: 80-85 (2005).

Graff, "State Taxation of Online Tobacco Sales: Circumventing the Archaic Bright Line Penned By Quill," Florida Law Review, 58:2 (April 2006).

Graff, There Is No Constitutional Right to Smoke, a law synopsis from the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium (March 2008).

Leverett, Ashe, Gerard, Jenson and Woollery, "Tobacco Use: Impact of Prices," Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 30:3 (Fall 2002), p. 88.

Technical Assistance Legal Center, Divestment Action Guide (California Department of Health Services, 2000).

Technical Assistance Legal Center, Enforcement Roadmaps (California Department of Health Services, 2004).

Technical Assistance Legal Center, Making Smokefree Housing Laws Work (California Department of Health Services, 2007).

Technical Assistance Legal Center, Regulating Tobacco Advertising: A Guide for Cities and Counties (California Department of Health Services, 2000).

Technical Assistance Legal Center, TALC's Guide to Small Claims Court (California Department of Health Services, 2004).

Technical Assistance Legal Center, Tobacco Laws Affecting California (California Department of Health Services, 2007).

Zellers and Graff, Workplace Smoking: Options for Employees and Legal Risks for Employers, a law synopsis from the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium (April 2008).

Zellers, Thomas and Ashe, "Legal Risks to Employers Who Allow Smoking in the Workplace," American Journal of Public Health, vol. 97, no. 8 (August 2007).

Land Use

Ashe, Jernigan, Kline and Galaz, "Land Use Planning and the Control of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Fast Food Restaurants," American Journal of Public Health, Sept 2003; 93: 1404-8.

Feldstein, General Plans and Zoning: A Toolkit on Land Use and Health (California Department of Health Services, 2006).

Feldstein, Jacobus and Laurison, Economic Development and Redevelopment: A Toolkit on Land Use and Health (California Department of Health Services, 2006).

Feldstein, "Linking Land Use Planning and the Food Environment," International City/County Management Association, 2006.

Nutrition

Ashe, Bennett, Economos, Goodman, Schilling, Quintiliani, Rosenbaum, Vincent, and Must, "Assessing Coordination of Legal-Based Efforts across Jurisdictions and Sectors for Obesity Prevention and Control," Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (Summer 2009).

Ashe, Feldstein, Graff, Kline, Pinkas and Zellers,"Local Venues for Change: Legal Strategies for Healthy Environments,"; Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2007; 35: 138-147.

Graff, "First Amendment Implications of Restricting Food and Beverage Marketing in Schools," ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (January 2008).

Graff and Ackerman, "A Special Role for Lawyers in a Social Norm Change Movement: From Tobacco Control to Childhood Obesity Prevention," Preventing Chronic Disease (July 2009).

Kline, Graff, Zellers and Ashe, "Beyond Advertising Controls: Influencing Junk Food Marketing and Consumption with Policy Innovations Developed in Tobacco Control," Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review, May 2006; 39: 603-646.

Mermin and Graff, "A Legal Primer for the Obesity Prevention Movement," American Journal of Public Health (October 2009).

Must, Bennett, Economos, Goodman, Schilling, Quintiliani, Rosenbaum, Vincent, and Ashe, "Improving Coordination of Legal-Based Efforts across Jurisdictions and Sectors for Obesity Prevention and Control," Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics (Summer 2009).

Yancy, Cole, Williams, Hillier, Kline, Ashe, Grier, Backman and McCarthy, "A Cross-Sectional Prevalence Study of Ethnically Targeted and General Audience Outdoor Obesity-Related Advertising," The Milbank Quarterly (2009).

Pharmaceutical Access

Ashe and Duke, Executive Summary, "Pharmaceutical Discounts Under Federal Law: State Program Opportunities," by William von Oehsen, Public Health Institute, 2001. Executive summary reprint in American Journal of Health-Systems Pharmacy, 2003 (Mar 15); 60:551-3.

Duke, "The California Debate: Competing Drug Discount Programs for Millions of Residents," Public Health Institute, 2005.

Duke, "Indigent Medical Care in California: Still Invisible?" 25 Pacific Law Journal 21-66 (October 1993).

Duke, Raube, Lipton, "Patient-Assistance Programs: Assessment of and Use by Safety Net Clinics," American Journal of Health-Systems Pharmacy, vol. 62, Apr 1, 2005.

Raube, Douglas, Duke and Ashe, Managing Pharmaceutical Costs Among California Safety-Net Providers, 2001.

Communicable Disease

Public Health Law Program, TB Control and the Law: Reference Materials for Health Officers, Staff and Attorneys (Public Health Institute, 2003).

Public Health Law (general)

Ashe, "Statutory Compliance and Proposition 65 Settlements," Prop. 65 News, 2000.

Ashe, "Alternative Dispute Resolution and Public Interest Settlements," Forum, National Institute for Dispute Resolution, Summer 1995.

Ashe, "The Low-Level Radioactive Waste Policy Act and the Tenth Amendment: A ‘Paragon of Legislative Success' or a Failure of Accountability?" 20 Ecology Law Quarterly, 267, 1993.

Graff, Ackerman, "A Special Role for Lawyers in a Social Norm Change Movement: From Tobacco Control to Childhood Obesity Prevention" Preventing Chronic Disease, July 2009.