PUBLIC HEALTH EQUITY LAW: CONSIDERING LAW AS A TOOL IN ACHIEVING HEALTH EQUITY

Dawn Pepin¹

• ¹Dawn Pepin, JD, MPH, Public Health Policy Analyst, Policy Research, Analysis, and Development Office, Office of the Associate Director for Policy and Strategy, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The research which served as a basis for this writing, as well as the presentation at DePaul's Law Review Symposium, was conducted when the author was a Cherokee Nation Assurance Contractor with the Public Health Law Program, Center for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support, CDC. The author would like to express her appreciation to those who reviewed this article including Richard Puddy, James Kucik, Diane Hall, Laurie Ishak, Aila Hoss, Matthew Penn, Mara Howard-Williams, and Samantha Bent Weber. The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.