Scott Burri
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1259910 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Scott Burri |
| NOMBRES | Scott |
| APELLIDO | Burri |
| FIRMA | BURRI S |
| AFILIACIONES | Temple University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6013-5842 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 77 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1996 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
State minimum wage laws and state-level rates of new HIV diagnoses among Black, Latine, and White US women and men, 2010–2019
BACKGROUND: In the USA, HIV remains a pressing public health challenge (~37 400 new diagnoses in 2018) and pronounced racialised inequities persist. In 2018, Black and Latine people represented 43% and 26% of new diagnoses but only 13% and 18% of the population, respectively. Antiracist laws may help mitigate these inequities, yet research investigating specific laws is lacking. This study aimed to examine associations between state minimum wage …
Living the Xinka way
This study examines the leadership practices of the Xinka people, an Indigenous group in southern Guatemala, with the goal of contributing to understanding how their cultural values influence leadership behaviors. Through a constructivist grounded theory approach, this research involved 20 interviews with Xinka leaders from various communities in Guatemala. Data were analyzed using grounded theory methods, including open, axial, and selective cod…
Farmers’ field schools as a method of agricultural empowerment among Indigenous Lenca women in Honduras
The farmer field school is an adult education model emphasizing experiential, participatory learning. In Honduras, farmer field school promotes gender equality and empowers women in agriculture, particularly as many male farmers migrate in search of alternative income sources. This ethnographic study explores how farmer field school women participants engage with agricultural practices and how these practices influence their empowerment and commu…
Improving the Transparency of Legal Measurement in Health Policy Evaluation—A Guide for Researchers, Reviewers, and Editors
Drawing on a growing methods literature in legal epidemiology, this Viewpoint describes difficulties of quantifying health impacts of legal policies and outlines some steps that are key to creating scientifically credible legal data
Indigenous Maya-Mam leadership competencies
The findings suggest that Maya-Mam leadership is deeply rooted in cultural values and community dynamics, influencing how leaders engage with their roles and responsibilities. This aligns with broader research on Indigenous leadership, highlighting similarities and unique aspects of Maya-Mam leadership practices. The study underscores the importance of understanding local contexts and cultural values in leadership development initiatives within I…
A Call for Formal Reporting Standards for Legal Research in Public Health Studies
Building A Comprehensive, Longitudinal Dataset to Advance Research on the Efficacy of State-Level Anti-bullying Legislation
Bullying is one of the most common forms of youth violence and is associated with myriad adverse consequences over the life course. There has been increasing interest in examining whether anti-bullying legislation is effective in preventing bullying victimization and its negative effects. However, a lack of data structures that comprehensively and longitudinally assess anti-bullying legislation and its provisions has hampered this effort. We prov…
Conceptual Confusion Leads Policy Evaluation Astray
A 2023 Cochrane review of randomized clinical trials (RCTs) of "physical interventions to...reduce the spread of respiratory viruses" 1 generated controversy and confusion in concluding that "wearing masks in the community probably makes little or no difference to the outcome of laboratoryconfirmed influenza/SARS-CoV-2 compared to not wearing masks." 1 Some readers saw proof that "mask mandates were a bust," 2 while others pointed to the engineer…
Which Skills Are Key to Public Health Leaders’ Success in Crisis Management
Under-resourced and fragmented public health infrastructure has contributed to a poor pandemic response in the United States. There have been calls to redesign the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and to increase its budget. Lawmakers also have introduced bills aiming to change public health emergency powers at the local, state, and federal levels. Public health is ripe for reform, but reorganization and enhanced funding will not addres…
Trends in US State Public Health Emergency Laws, 2021–2022
Objectives. To identify and categorize US state legislation introduced between January 1, 2021, and May 20, 2022, that addresses emergency health authority. Methods. We adapted standard policy surveillance methods to collect and code state bills and enacted laws limiting or expanding the emergency public health authority of state and local officials and agencies. Results. State legislators introduced 1531 bills addressing public health authority;…
Cannabis Equity Initiatives
Cannabis Equity Initiatives: Progress, Problems, and Potentials Y. Tony Yang ScD, LLM, MPH, Carla J. Berg PhD, MBA, and Scott Burris JD Affiliation Y. Tony Yang is with School of Nursing, Milken Institute School of Public Health, GW Cancer Center, the George Washington University, Washington, DC. Carla J. Berg is with Milken Institute School of Public Health, GW Cancer Center, the George Washington University. Scott Burris is with the Center for …
A love-hate relationship
Honduras is a Latin-American country composed of nine Indigenous groups whose communities have experienced rural-to-urban migration due to the lack of employment, access to services, and poor infrastructure. The Lenca are the largest Indigenous group in Honduras, and have experienced massive outmigration of men, leaving women in charge of agricultural production – traditionally a man’s duty. The purpose of this study was to examine the phenomenon…
Identifying data for the empirical assessment of law (Ideal)
Reproductive rights have been the focus of United Nations consensus documents, a priority for agencies like the WHO, and the subject of judgments issued by national and international courts. Human rights approaches have galvanised abortion law reform across numerous countries, but human rights analysis is not designed to empirically assess how legal provisions regulating abortion shape the actual delivery of abortion services and outcomes. Reliab…
Research on the Effects of Legal Health Interventions to Prevent Overdose
Research on the Effects of Legal Health Interventions to Prevent Overdose: Too Often Too Little and Too Late Scott Burris JD Affiliation Scott Burris is with the Center for Public Health Law Research, Temple University Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, PA.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Scott Burris, Temple Law School, 1719 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122 (e-mail: [email protected]). Reprints can be ordered at http://ww…
Global Policy Surveillance
Throughout the world, laws play an important role in shaping population health. Law making is an intervention with measurable effects yet often unfolds without evaluation or monitoring. Policy surveillance—the systematic, scientific collection and analysis of laws of public health significance—can help bridge this gap by capturing important features of law in numeric form in structured longitudinal data sets. Currently deployed primarily in high-…
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Theory and methods in comparative drug and alcohol policy research
Policing and public health
Policing matters to public health, and it makes sense to consider how greater cooperation and even integration between health and law enforcement systems might lead to new and better approaches to chronic problems at the intersection of health and security. The fact that policing is important to public health does not mean, however, that police work is ‘like’ public health work, let alone that police agencies and public health agencies share impo…
The role of the Chinese police in methadone maintenance therapy
Legal Regulation of Health-Related Behavior
Legal intervention to influence individual health behavior has increased dramatically since the 1960s. This article describes the rise of law as a tool of public health and the scientific research that has assessed and often guided it, with a focus on five major domains: traffic safety, gun violence, tobacco use, reproductive health, and obesity. These topical stories illustrate both law's effectiveness and its limitations as a public health tool…
The Effect of Mandatory Seat Belt Laws on Seat Belt Use by Socioeconomic Position
We investigated the differential effect of mandatory seat belt laws on seat belt use among socioeconomic subgroups. We identified the differential effect of legislation across higher versus lower education individuals using a difference‐in‐differences model based on state variations in the timing of the passage of laws. We find strong effects of mandatory seat belt laws for all education groups, but the effect is stronger for those with fewer yea…
Critical Opportunities for Public Health Law
Although legal interventions are responsible for many sentinel public health achievements, law is underutilized as a tool for advancing population health. Our purpose was to identify critical opportunities for public health lawmaking. We articulated key criteria and illustrated their use with 5 examples. These opportunities involve significant health problems that are potentially amenable to change through law and for which an effective legal int…
Drug policing, harm reduction and health
Ten reasons to oppose the criminalization of HIV exposure or transmission
Recent years have seen a push to apply criminal law to HIV exposure and transmission, often driven by the wish to respond to concerns about the ongoing rapid spread of HIV in many countries. Particularly in Africa, some groups have begun to advocate for criminalization in response to the serious phenomenon of women being infected with HIV through sexual violence or by partners who do not reveal their HIV diagnoses to them. While these issues must…
Can sex workers regulate police? Learning from an HIV prevention project for sex workers in southern India
Can sex workers regulate police? Learning from an HIV prevention project for sex workers in southern India
Effects of an Intensive Street-Level Police Intervention on Syringe Exchange Program Use in Philadelphia, Pa
Repeated measurements and mixed-effects models were used to analyze the effects of an intensive long-term street-level police intervention on syringe exchange program use. Utilization data for 9 months before and after the beginning of the intervention were analyzed. Use fell across all categories and time periods studied, with significant declines in use among total participants, male participants, and Black participants. Declines in use among B…
Emerging Strategies for Healthy Urban Governance
Urban health promotion is not simply a matter of the right interventions, or even the necessary resources. Urban (and indeed global) health depends to an important extent on governance, the institutions and processes through which societies manage the course of events. This paper describes the concept of governance, distinguishing between reforms aimed at improving how government works and innovations that more fundamentally reinvent governance b…
The Effect of Mandatory Seat Belt Laws on Seat Belt Use by Socioeconomic Position
We investigated the differential effect of mandatory seat belt laws on seat belt use among socioeconomic subgroups. We identified the differential effect of legislation across higher versus lower education individuals using a difference‐in‐differences model based on state variations in the timing of the passage of laws. We find strong effects of mandatory seat belt laws for all education groups, but the effect is stronger for those with fewer yea…
The Law (and Politics) of Safe Injection Facilities in the United States
Safe injection facilities (SIFs) have shown promise in reducing harms and social costs associated with injection drug use. Favorable evaluations elsewhere have raised the issue of their implementation in the United States. Recognizing that laws shape health interventions targeting drug users, we analyzed the legal environment for publicly authorized SIFs in the United States. Although states and some municipalities have the power to authorize SIF…
The legal strategies used in operating syringe exchange programs in the United States
OBJECTIVES. This study sought to identify the strategies used by syringe exchange programs to establish their legality. METHODS. Statutes, court decisions, published studies of exchange programs, and news stories were reviewed, and telephone interviews were conducted with syringe exchange personnel. RESULTS. Twenty-seven exchanges have been authorized by amendments to or judicial interpretations of state drug laws or by administrative action unde…
Legal Regulation of Health-Related Behavior
Legal intervention to influence individual health behavior has increased dramatically since the 1960s. This article describes the rise of law as a tool of public health and the scientific research that has assessed and often guided it, with a focus on five major domains: traffic safety, gun violence, tobacco use, reproductive health, and obesity. These topical stories illustrate both law's effectiveness and its limitations as a public health tool…
Ten reasons to oppose the criminalization of HIV exposure or transmission
Recent years have seen a push to apply criminal law to HIV exposure and transmission, often driven by the wish to respond to concerns about the ongoing rapid spread of HIV in many countries. Particularly in Africa, some groups have begun to advocate for criminalization in response to the serious phenomenon of women being infected with HIV through sexual violence or by partners who do not reveal their HIV diagnoses to them. While these issues must…
Physicians’ Knowledge of and Willingness to Prescribe Naloxone to Reverse Accidental Opiate Overdose
The invisibility of public health
This paper models the prevailing political attack on government as a heuristic, a judgmental strategy that simplifies complex phenomena by applying simple tests to a limited set of relevant data. The heuristic of market individualism offers three tools for analyzing the problems of governing: the supremacy of the free market as a regulatory device, a belief in individual freedom of choice and personal responsibility, and the elevation of individu…
Policing and public health
Policing matters to public health, and it makes sense to consider how greater cooperation and even integration between health and law enforcement systems might lead to new and better approaches to chronic problems at the intersection of health and security. The fact that policing is important to public health does not mean, however, that police work is ‘like’ public health work, let alone that police agencies and public health agencies share impo…
Regulatory innovation in the governance of human subjects research
Under US regulations known as the “Common Rule,” federally‐supported human‐subject research must be reviewed by an Institutional Review Board (IRB). The Common Rule system from a distance looks like an innovative instantiation of prescriptions for constitutive regulation and soft law, but in practice has grown into a self‐referential, unresponsive, and legalistic bureaucracy. This article reviews criticism of the Common Rule. It also discusses wh…
Legal Aspects of Regulating Bathhouses
Public health measures regulating or closing bathhouses and other businesses facilitating consensual sexual activity among strangers have generally been upheld by courts. Using standard legal research methods, this study sought (1) suits brought by government authorities to close a sex-facilitating business (SFB) based at least in part on health concerns, and (2) suits filed by SFBs to invalidate state laws or local ordinances banning closed boot…
State minimum wage laws and state-level rates of new HIV diagnoses among Black, Latine, and White US women and men, 2010–2019
BACKGROUND: In the USA, HIV remains a pressing public health challenge (~37 400 new diagnoses in 2018) and pronounced racialised inequities persist. In 2018, Black and Latine people represented 43% and 26% of new diagnoses but only 13% and 18% of the population, respectively. Antiracist laws may help mitigate these inequities, yet research investigating specific laws is lacking. This study aimed to examine associations between state minimum wage …
Indigenous Maya-Mam leadership competencies
The findings suggest that Maya-Mam leadership is deeply rooted in cultural values and community dynamics, influencing how leaders engage with their roles and responsibilities. This aligns with broader research on Indigenous leadership, highlighting similarities and unique aspects of Maya-Mam leadership practices. The study underscores the importance of understanding local contexts and cultural values in leadership development initiatives within I…
Trends in US State Public Health Emergency Laws, 2021–2022
Objectives. To identify and categorize US state legislation introduced between January 1, 2021, and May 20, 2022, that addresses emergency health authority. Methods. We adapted standard policy surveillance methods to collect and code state bills and enacted laws limiting or expanding the emergency public health authority of state and local officials and agencies. Results. State legislators introduced 1531 bills addressing public health authority;…
Research on the Effects of Legal Health Interventions to Prevent Overdose
Research on the Effects of Legal Health Interventions to Prevent Overdose: Too Often Too Little and Too Late Scott Burris JD Affiliation Scott Burris is with the Center for Public Health Law Research, Temple University Beasley School of Law, Philadelphia, PA.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Scott Burris, Temple Law School, 1719 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122 (e-mail: [email protected]). Reprints can be ordered at http://ww…
Global Policy Surveillance
Throughout the world, laws play an important role in shaping population health. Law making is an intervention with measurable effects yet often unfolds without evaluation or monitoring. Policy surveillance—the systematic, scientific collection and analysis of laws of public health significance—can help bridge this gap by capturing important features of law in numeric form in structured longitudinal data sets. Currently deployed primarily in high-…
The legal strategies used in operating syringe exchange programs in the United States
OBJECTIVES. This study sought to identify the strategies used by syringe exchange programs to establish their legality. METHODS. Statutes, court decisions, published studies of exchange programs, and news stories were reviewed, and telephone interviews were conducted with syringe exchange personnel. RESULTS. Twenty-seven exchanges have been authorized by amendments to or judicial interpretations of state drug laws or by administrative action unde…
The invisibility of public health
This paper models the prevailing political attack on government as a heuristic, a judgmental strategy that simplifies complex phenomena by applying simple tests to a limited set of relevant data. The heuristic of market individualism offers three tools for analyzing the problems of governing: the supremacy of the free market as a regulatory device, a belief in individual freedom of choice and personal responsibility, and the elevation of individu…
Studying the Legal Management of HIV-Related Stigma
Law has been a prominent tool for managing the stigmas associated with HIV. The belief that stigma would discourage HIV testing and that privacy and antidiscrimination policies could reduce this effect was a plausible foundation for law in the early days of the epidemic, but is now ripe for reexamination. This article identifies major factual assumptions underlying current policies on HIV-related stigma and its legal management that should be add…
Legal aspects of providing naloxone to heroin users in the United States
Structural interventions to improve opiate maintenance
Syringe access for the prevention of blood borne infections among injection drug users
By assisting illicit drug injectors to obtain sterile syringes the primary care provider is able to reduce the incidence of blood borne infections, and educate patients about safe syringe disposal. The provider is also able to initiate discussion about drug use in a nonjudgmental manner and to offer care to patients who are not yet ready to consider drug treatment
Public opinion about syringe exchange programmes in the USA
Legal Aspects of Regulating Bathhouses
Public health measures regulating or closing bathhouses and other businesses facilitating consensual sexual activity among strangers have generally been upheld by courts. Using standard legal research methods, this study sought (1) suits brought by government authorities to close a sex-facilitating business (SFB) based at least in part on health concerns, and (2) suits filed by SFBs to invalidate state laws or local ordinances banning closed boot…
Addressing the “Risk Environment” for Injection Drug Users
Ecological models of the determinants of health and the consequent importance of structural interventions have been widely accepted, but using these models in research and practice has been challenging. Examining the role of criminal law enforcement in the “risk environment” of injection drug users (IDUs) provides an opportunity to apply structural thinking to the health problems associated with drug use. This article reviews international eviden…
Harm reduction’s first principle
Attitudes of police officers towards syringe access, occupational needle-sticks, and drug use
Effects of an Intensive Street-Level Police Intervention on Syringe Exchange Program Use in Philadelphia, Pa
Repeated measurements and mixed-effects models were used to analyze the effects of an intensive long-term street-level police intervention on syringe exchange program use. Utilization data for 9 months before and after the beginning of the intervention were analyzed. Use fell across all categories and time periods studied, with significant declines in use among total participants, male participants, and Black participants. Declines in use among B…
To serve and protect? Toward a better relationship between drug control policy and public health
Democracy, Society and the Governance of Security
The promotion of security is no longer a state monopoly. It is dispersed and takes place through the practices of states, corporations, non-governmental actors and community-based organizations. But what do we know about the ways in which 'security' is thought about and promoted in this pluralized field of delivery? Are democratic values being advanced and protected, or threatened and compromised? Wood and Dupont bring together a team of renowned…
U. S. Health Researchers Review Their Ethics Review Boards
Virtually all research involving human subjects in the United States must be reviewed by an institutional review board, a form of research ethics review board. This article reports the results of qualitative research on how investigators regard this regulatory regime. Interviews were conducted with forty investigators conducting health-related research. Most respondents shared the regulations' goals, but doubted that the regulations, as implement…
Harm reduction
Physicians’ Knowledge of and Willingness to Prescribe Naloxone to Reverse Accidental Opiate Overdose
Trends in the Black-White Life Expectancy Gap in the United States, 1983-2003
CONTEXT: Since the early 1980s, the black-white gap in life expectancy at birth increased sharply and subsequently declined, but the causes of these changes have not been investigated. OBJECTIVE: To determine the contribution of specific age groups and causes of death contributing to the changes in the black-white life expectancy gap from 1983-2003. DESIGN AND SETTING: US vital statistics data from the US National Vital Statistics System, maintai…
Injecting drug users’ experiences of policing practices in two Mexican–U.S. border cities
Emerging Strategies for Healthy Urban Governance
Urban health promotion is not simply a matter of the right interventions, or even the necessary resources. Urban (and indeed global) health depends to an important extent on governance, the institutions and processes through which societies manage the course of events. This paper describes the concept of governance, distinguishing between reforms aimed at improving how government works and innovations that more fundamentally reinvent governance b…
Stigma, ethics and policy
This handbook is a product of the course entitled as ”Risk Management and Safety” which is offered two times a year to master students by Department of Product and Production Development, Division of Production System at Chalmers University of Technology. The course established in 1997 and is optional. Every year about 200 students take part in the course. The book mainly builds upon the editor research works and also the project works carried ou…
The Law (and Politics) of Safe Injection Facilities in the United States
Safe injection facilities (SIFs) have shown promise in reducing harms and social costs associated with injection drug use. Favorable evaluations elsewhere have raised the issue of their implementation in the United States. Recognizing that laws shape health interventions targeting drug users, we analyzed the legal environment for publicly authorized SIFs in the United States. Although states and some municipalities have the power to authorize SIF…
Regulatory innovation in the governance of human subjects research
Under US regulations known as the “Common Rule,” federally‐supported human‐subject research must be reviewed by an Institutional Review Board (IRB). The Common Rule system from a distance looks like an innovative instantiation of prescriptions for constitutive regulation and soft law, but in practice has grown into a self‐referential, unresponsive, and legalistic bureaucracy. This article reviews criticism of the Common Rule. It also discusses wh…
Drug policing, harm reduction and health
Ten reasons to oppose the criminalization of HIV exposure or transmission
Recent years have seen a push to apply criminal law to HIV exposure and transmission, often driven by the wish to respond to concerns about the ongoing rapid spread of HIV in many countries. Particularly in Africa, some groups have begun to advocate for criminalization in response to the serious phenomenon of women being infected with HIV through sexual violence or by partners who do not reveal their HIV diagnoses to them. While these issues must…
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