A Call for Formal Reporting Standards for Legal Research in Public Health Studies

Cason D Schmit1, Scott Burris1, Safura Abdool Karim1

  • 1Cason D. Schmit and Regen Weber-Fares are with the Department of Health Policy and Management, Texas A&M University School of Public Health, College Station, TX. Scott Burris is with the Center for Public Health Law Research, Temple University Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, PA. Safura Abdool Karim is with the Berman Institute of Bioethics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Benjamin A. Barsky is with the University of California College of the Law, San Francisco. Sean Grant is with the RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA. Alina Schnake-Mahl is with the Department of Health Management and Policy, Urban Health Collaborative, Dornsife School of Public Health, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA. Lauren Tonti is with the Department of Economics, University of Missouri, Columbia. Megan D. Douglas is with the Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA. Kimberly M. Nelson is with the Department of Community Health Sciences, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Amie J. Goodin is with the Department of Pharmaceutical Outcomes and Policy, Center for Drug Evaluation and Safety, University of Florida, Gainesville. Kristen Underhill is with the Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY. Mathieu J. P. Poirier is with the School of Global Health, York University, Toronto, Canada. Jin Yung Bae is with the NYU School of Global Public Health, New York, NY. Elizabeth Piekarz-Porter and Jamie F. Chriqui are with the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health. Susan Zells Ingber is with Sellers Dorsey, Philadelphia, PA.

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