Publications

The program spotlights recent publications and ongoing research in health policy and law.

Select research and publications by core and affiliated faculty and researchers in health policy and law (under construction):

• Jillian Cohen, Patricia Illingsworth, and Udo Schuklenk, Eds., "The Power of Pills: Social, Ethical and Legal Issues in Drug Development, Marketing and Pricing," Pluto Press (2006). 
• Kristin Madison, “The Law and Policy of Health Care Quality Reporting,” 31 Campbell Law Review 215 (2009).
• Kristin Madison, “Regulating Health Care Quality in an Information Age,” 40 University of California-Davis Law Review 1577 (2007).
• Kristin M. Madison, Kevin G. Volpp and Scott D. Halpern, “The Law, Policy, and Ethics of Employers’ Use of Financial Incentives to Improve Health,” 39 Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 450 (2011).
• Wendy Parmet, "Pandemics, Populism and the Role of Law in the H1N1 Vaccine Campaign," 4 St. Louis University Journal of Health Law & Policy 113 (2010).
• Richard Wamai research brief: Public health policy; Male circumcision for HIV prevention; Health systems in Africa; Human papillomavirus in Cameroon and Kenya; Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) in Kenya; E-Health in childhood health in Kenya; Reproductive health in Haiti; Community Health intervention in Kenya; and African immigrants’ health in the USA
• Morris BJ, Waskett JH, Gray RH, Halperin DT, Wamai RG, Auvert B, Klausner JD. Exposé of misleading claims that male circumcision will increase HIV infections. J. P H Africa 2011;2(e28):117-122.
• Wamai RG, Morris BJ. “How to contain generalized HIV epidemics” article is misconstrued. Int J STD AIDS 2011;22:415-416.
• Banerjee J, Klausner JD, Halperin DT, Wamai RG, et al. Circumcision Denialism Unfounded and Unscientific. Am J Prev Med 2011;40(3):e11-e12. Am J Prev Med 2011;40(3):e11-e12.
• Wamai RG, Larkin C. Health Development Experiences in Haiti: What Can Be Learned From the Past to Find a Way Forward? JMAJ 2011;54(1):56–57.
• Galaraga O, Colchero A, Wamai RG and Bertozzi S. HIV prevention cost effectiveness: a systematic review of the literature 2005-2008. BMC Public Health 2009;9(Suppl 1):S1. [The OptAIDS project: towards global halting of HIV/AIDS] 
• Wamai RG. Reviewing Ethiopia’s Health System Development. JMAJ 2009;52(4): 279-286.
• Wamai RG. The health system in Kenya: Analysis of the situation and enduring challenges. JMAJ 2009;52(2):134-140.
• Wamai RG. Healthcare Policy Administration and Reforms in Post-Colonial Kenya and Challenges for the Future. In: Tuija Veintie and Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen (Eds.), Local and Global Encounters: Norms, Identities and Representations in Formation. Renvall Insitute Publications 25. University of Helsinki, Finland. 2009.  
• Wamai RG. Reforming health systems: the role of NGOs in Decentralization – lessons from Kenya and Ethiopia. Working Papers, Vol. VI, ISTR Conference. Barcelona Conference. 2009.  
• Wamai RG et al (43 authors). Male Circumcision is an Efficacious, Lasting and Cost-Effective Strategy for Combating HIV in High-Prevalence AIDS Epidemics: Time to Move beyond Debating the Science. Future HIV Therapy;2 (5), 399-405.
• Halperin DT, Potts M, Kirby D, Klausner J, Wamai RG, Swidler A, Marseille E, Walsh J, Hearst N. Response. Science Vol. 321 (September 19), 1632-33.
• Potts M, Halperin DT, Kirby D, Swidler A, Marseille E, Klausner J, Hearst N, Wamai RG, Kahn JG, Walsh J: Reassessing HIV Prevention. Science Vol. 320 (May 9), 749-750. 
• Klausner J. Wamai RG, Bowa K, Agot K, Kagimba J, Halperin DT. Is male circumcision as good as the HIV vaccine we’ve been waiting for? Future HIV Therapy. 2(1), 1-7 (2008).