SEPTEMBER 16-18, 2025 - PLEASE CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION
The abstract submission period for the 2025 Public Health Law Conference is officially open! This conference will be held September 16-18, 2025 at the Hyatt Regency at Seattle’s Southport.
We welcome abstracts for individual presentations, panel presentations, Ignite sessions, or poster sessions. We are seeking submissions related to these priority areas: Health and Racial Health Equity; Advocacy and Community Engagement; Public Health Authority and Systems; Harm Reduction; Data Access, Sharing and Privacy; and Emerging Issues.
Public health practitioners, attorneys, researchers, health care providers, and advocates working in public health, health care and other sectors, as well as community-led organizations and coalitions, are all encouraged to submit abstracts.
The following priority areas include examples of subtopics for the purpose of illustration. We welcome relevant abstract submissions not specifically mentioned on this list:
- Health and Racial Health Equity: structural racism; implementing antiracism in public health; equitable and culturally inclusive approaches to mental health and well-being; health impacts of incarceration; just transitions, disparate health impacts of climate change; LGBTQ+ health, reproductive and sexual health, maternal health; disability justice; food security; rural health; regulating menthol cigarettes; and Tribal health.
- Advocacy and Community Engagement: community-led health initiatives; strategies for enhancing community engagement in public health; cross-sectoral collaboration to bridge gaps in health disparities; public health advocacy; ballot initiatives; messaging to overcome mis/disinformation and information resistance and make the affirmative case for public health.
- Public Health Authority and Systems: public health authority beyond emergencies; litigation and other legal tools; Medicaid in non-expansion states; operationalizing racial equity tools and frameworks; implicit bias in public health law; politicizing of public health measures; increasing legal knowledge and skills in the public health workforce; immunization requirements; and legal epidemiology.
- Harm Reduction: harm reduction laws and policies; strengthening community-based harm reduction organizations, substance use disorder (SUD) prevention; cannabis legalization and regulation; naloxone distribution; overdose prevention centers; public health to support people who use drugs rather than punitive responses (includes decriminalization); defining the SUD treatment industry.
- Data Access, Sharing and Privacy: Tribal public health data; laws around the use of artificial intelligence; cross sector data sharing; equity in public health data; data disaggregation; trends in data privacy/data sharing; and data modernization initiatives and public health.
- Emerging Issues: the next public health emergency; climate action plans; indoor and outdoor air quality; artificial intelligence; emerging legislative trends impacting racial equity, vaccination and immunization; civic engagement; judicial decisions impacting racial health equity, the health of LGBTQ+ communities, access to health care, gun control, and affirmative action.