This report assesses legal responses to COVID-19, offering policy recommendations on preparedness, health care, and equity to guide policymakers in addressing the pandemic's challenges and opportunities.

This resource compiles tables tracking COVID-19 emergency declarations, mitigation policies, and topic-specific legal responses across all jurisdictional levels.

This article examines state legal actions to mitigate COVID-19’s public health impact, including social distancing mandates, medical procedure restrictions, and local versus state governance policies.

This article provides legal and policy resources, evidence-based strategies, and expert analysis on mitigating COVID-19’s impact, focusing on emergency declarations, preparedness, and equitable public health solutions.

This article reviews the effectiveness of standing orders in vaccination programs, showing significant increases in vaccine uptake and prevention of infectious diseases among adults and children.

This article reviews the impact of coercive tuberculosis control measures, including detention, on public health. Evidence is insufficient to conclude that detention improves population health.

This article evaluates the effectiveness of community water fluoridation (CWF) in reducing tooth decay in children, showing a 30-50% reduction in dental caries. CWF is endorsed as a cost-effective, safe intervention for oral health.

This article explores how vaccination requirements for child care, school, and college attendance increase vaccination rates and decrease vaccine-preventable diseases, supported by systematic evidence.

This article examines laws requiring vaccinations for high-risk populations, emphasizing their role in preventing disease and public health challenges. The evidence regarding their effectiveness remains uncertain.

This article reviews the use of standing orders to increase adult vaccination rates, highlighting strong evidence of their effectiveness as a public health intervention to boost vaccine coverage.

This dataset maps laws in four European countries implementing WHO's IHR(2005) to prevent, protect, and control the spread of diseases, developed with WHO and Swiss Federal Office of Public Health funding.

This article examines pandemic governance in the EU, highlighting the need for mapping national laws to assess compliance with international standards and promote cross-border coherence for effective, ethical, and lawful emergency responses.

This article examines the impact of paid sick leave laws on foodborne illness rates, highlighting significant declines in jurisdictions with supportive policies and increases in those with less supportive laws.

This dataset maps syringe distribution laws, detailing paraphernalia regulations and their impact on preventing HIV transmission and supporting public health among injection drug users.

This dataset maps laws impacting syringe possession, highlighting efforts to reduce HIV and other communicable diseases by addressing high-risk behaviors among injection drug users.