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Overview

Scott Burris is affiliated with Temple University in the United States and specializes in the fields of health professions and medicine. Their research spans multiple subfields, including general health professions, economics and econometrics, public health, environmental and occupational health, pharmacy, and epidemiology.

The main topics of Scott Burris's work include public health policies and education, healthcare policy and management, medical malpractice and liability issues, food security and health in diverse populations, global public health policies and epidemiology, opioid use disorder treatment, and cannabis and cannabinoid research.

Recent papers by Scott Burris cover various aspects of public health and legal epidemiology. Selected publications include:

  • Addressing the risk environment for injection drug users: The mysterious case of the missing cop (2023), published in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • The Growing Field of Legal Epidemiology (2020), published in Journal of Public Health Management and Practice
  • The "Legal Epidemiology" of Pandemic Control (2021), published in New England Journal of Medicine
  • The Legal Response to COVID-19: Legal Pathways to a More Effective and Equitable Response (2020), published in Journal of Public Health Management and Practice

Scott Burris frequently collaborates with coauthors such as Nicolas Terry, Lindsay Cloud, Carla J. Berg, Katie Moran-McCabe, and Evan D. Anderson.

Their publications have appeared in multiple venues, with the most frequent being:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (10 publications)
  • American Journal of Public Health (7 publications)
  • Public Health Reports (4 publications)
  • Journal of Public Health Management and Practice (3 publications)
  • New England Journal of Medicine (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • The law and the public's health: a study of infectious disease law in the United States.

    Lawrence O. Gostin;Scott Burris;Zita Lazzarini

  • Addressing the “Risk Environment” for Injection Drug Users: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Cop

    Scott C Burris;Kim M. Blankenship;Martin Donoghoe;Susan Sherman

  • Workshop report: AIDS and stigma: a conceptual framework and research agenda

    Gregory M. Herek;Leonard Mitnick;Scott Burris;Margaret Chesney

  • Making the case for laws that improve health: a framework for public health law research.

    Scott Burris;Alexander C. Wagenaar;Jeffrey W. Swanson;Jennifer K. Ibrahim

  • Changes in Governance: A Cross-Disciplinary Review of Current Scholarship

    Scott Burris;Michael Kempa;Clifford Shearing

  • The Model State Emergency Health Powers Act: Planning for and Response to Bioterrorism and Naturally Occurring Infectious Diseases

    Lawrence Ogalthorpe Gostin;Jason W. Sapsin;Jason W. Sapsin;Stephen P. Teret;Stephen P. Teret;Scott Burris;Scott Burris

  • Effects of an Intensive Street-Level Police Intervention on Syringe Exchange Program Use in Philadelphia, Pa

    Corey S. Davis;Scott Burris;Julie Kraut-Becher;Kevin G. Lynch

  • Can sex workers regulate police? Learning from an HIV prevention project for sex workers in southern India

    Monica Rao Biradavolu;Scott Burris;Annie George;Asima Jena

  • Evaluating the impact of criminal laws on HIV risk behavior

    Zita Lazzarini;Sarah Bray;Scott Burris

  • Stigma, ethics and policy: a commentary on Bayer's "Stigma and the ethics of public health: Not can we but should we".

    Scott Burris

  • Syringe possession arrests are associated with receptive syringe sharing in two Mexico-US border cities.

    Robin A. Pollini;Kimberly C. Brouwer;Remedios M. Lozada;Rebeca Ramos

  • Attitudes of Police Officers Towards Syringe Access, Occupational Needle-Sticks, and Drug Use: A qualitative Study of one City Police Department in the United States

    Leo Beletsky;Leo Beletsky;Grace E. Macalino;Scott Burris

  • Addressing the 'Risk Environment' for Injection Drug Users: The Mysterious Case of the Missing Cop

    Scott Burris;Martin Donoghoe;Kim Blankenship;Susan Sherman

  • Physicians’ Knowledge of and Willingness to Prescribe Naloxone to Reverse Accidental Opiate Overdose: Challenges and Opportunities

    Leo Beletsky;Robin Ruthazer;Grace E. Macalino;Josiah D. Rich

  • A Transdisciplinary Approach to Public Health Law: The Emerging Practice of Legal Epidemiology

    Scott Burris;Marice Ashe;Donna Levin;Matthew Penn

  • The case against criminalization of HIV transmission.

    Scott Burris;Edwin Cameron

  • Integrating law and social epidemiology.

    Scott Burris;Ichiro Kawachi;Austin Sarat

  • Emerging Strategies for Healthy Urban Governance

    Scott Burris;Trevor Hancock;Vivian Lin;Andre Herzog

  • Syringe laws and pharmacy regulations are structural constraints on HIV prevention in the US.

    Jennifer Taussig;Beth Weinstein;Scott Burris;T. Jones

  • Do Criminal Laws Influence HIV Risk Behavior? An Empirical Trial

    Scott Burris;Leo Beletsky;Leo Beletsky;Leo Beletsky;Joseph A. Burleson;Patricia Case

  • Legal aspects of providing naloxone to heroin users in the United States

    Scott Burris;Joanna Norland;Brian R Edlin

  • Mapping medical marijuana: state laws regulating patients, product safety, supply chains and dispensaries, 2017.

    Sarah B. Klieger;Abraham Gutman;Leslie Allen;Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

  • Changing Law from Barrier to Facilitator of Opioid Overdose Prevention

    Corey Davis;Damika Webb;Scott Burris

  • State Laws on Emergency Holds for Mental Health Stabilization

    Leslie C. Hedman;John Petrila;William H. Fisher;Jeffrey W. Swanson

  • State Laws Restricting Driver Use of Mobile Communications Devices: Distracted-Driving Provisions, 1992–2010

    Jennifer K. Ibrahim;Evan D. Anderson;Scott C. Burris;Alexander C. Wagenaar

  • Law enforcement and public health: recognition and enhancement of joined-up solutions

    Auke J van Dijk;Victoria Herrington;Nick Crofts;Robert Breunig

  • Stigma and the law

    Scott Burris

  • State syringe and drug possession laws potentially influencing safe syringe disposal by injection drug users.

    Scott Burris;Joseph Welsh;Mitzi Ng;Mei Li

  • Is the United States Prepared for Ebola

    Lawrence O. Gostin;James G. Hodge;Scott Burris

  • Ten reasons to oppose the criminalization of HIV exposure or transmission.

    Ralf Jürgens;Jonathan Cohen;Edwin Cameron;Scott Burris

  • Effects of an Intensive Street-Level Police Intervention on Syringe Exchange Program Use in Philadelphia, Pa

    Corey S. Davis;Scott Burris;Julie R. Kraut-Becher;David Metzger

  • The Legality of Selling or Giving Syringes to Injection Drug Users

    Scott Burris;Jon S. Vernick;Alyssa Ditzler;Steffanie Strathdee

  • Title: Syringe Possession Arrests are Associated with Receptive Syringe Sharing in Two U.S.-Mexico Border Cities

    Robin A. Pollini;Kimberly C. Brouwer;Remedios M. Lozada;Rebeca Ramos

Frequent Co-Authors

Leo Beletsky
Leo Beletsky Northeastern University
Corey S. Davis
Corey S. Davis East Carolina University
Lawrence O. Gostin
Lawrence O. Gostin Georgetown University
Jon S. Vernick
Jon S. Vernick Johns Hopkins University
Jeffrey W. Swanson
Jeffrey W. Swanson Duke University
Alexander C. Wagenaar
Alexander C. Wagenaar Emory University
Steffanie A. Strathdee
Steffanie A. Strathdee University of California, San Diego
James G. Hodge
James G. Hodge Arizona State University
Clifford Shearing
Clifford Shearing University of Cape Town
Sam Harper
Sam Harper McGill University

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