Wilfredo Lopez

Biographic Data

ID6076883
NAMEWilfredo Lopez
GIVEN NAMESWilfredo
FAMILY NAMELopez
SIGNATURELOPEZ W
AFFILIATIONSWilfredo Lopez is with the New York City Department of Health.
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS3
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR3
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2002
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2019
H-INDEX1

  • The Legacy of 1987 Boreali v. Axelrod

    Sarah B Perl, Thomas G Merrill et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2019References: 4

    We explore how a 1987 New York State court decision—Boreali v. Axelrod—affected public health rule-making nationally and, with considerable impact, locally in New York City (NYC). We discuss the history of the origin of the NYC Board of Health (BOH), and establish that legislatures can be challenging venues in which to enact public health–related laws. We describe how, as the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene began to tackle modern publ…

  • New York City and state legal authorities related to syndromic surveillance

    Open AccessWilfredo LopezARTICLEJournal of Urban Health2003Cited by: 1

  • West Nile Virus in New York City

    Wilfredo LopezARTICLEAmerican Journal of Public Health2002References: 1

    In 1999, a cluster of encephalitis cases was detected in New York City. The city applied larvicide to standing water and aerially sprayed pesticides to control adult mosquitoes. The causative agent was West Nile virus, a type of encephalitis that had never before been transmitted in the western hemisphere. This experience offers many lessons for the practitioners of public health and of public health law. A public health infrastructure that does …