Stoto Publishes in The Georgetown Law Journal

Michael Stoto, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Health Systems Administration at NHS, published an article on public health surveillance in the January 2008 issue of The Georgetown Law Journal.

This issue of the journal was entitled, "Symposium: The O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law," and featured scholarly articles throughout four sections, including global health, health regulation and governance, health care financing and organization, and disease prevention and health outcomes.

Stoto's article, "Public Health Surveillance in the Twenty-First Century: Achieving Population Health Goals While Protecting Individuals' Privacy and Confidentiality," appeared in the fourth section.

"A basic principle of public health is to employ the least restrictive option that achieves population health goals," Stoto writes. "From this perspective, surveillance programs must strike a balance between the potential population benefits of the statistical and epidemiological data and knowledge, on the one hand, and protecting individuals' privacy and confidentiality rights on the other."

The O'Neill Institute is a joint partnership between NHS and Georgetown University Law Center. The journal is published by the Georgetown Law Journal Association.