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58 Admin. L. Rev. 627 (2006)
Legal Triage during Public Health Emergenices and Disasters

handle is hein.journals/admin58 and id is 635 raw text is: LEGAL TRIAGE DURING PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCIES AND DISASTERS JAMES G. HODGE, JR.* TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction ............................................................................................... 627 I. Defining Legal Triage During Emergencies ................................... 630 II. Critical Legal Issues Concerning Volunteer Health Personnel During the 2005 Gulf Coast Hurricanes ......................................... 632 A. Emergency Powers and Protections ........................................ 634 1. Public Health Em ergencies ................................................ 635 2. G eneral Em ergencies ......................................................... 636 3. D ual D eclarations .............................................................. 637 4. Federal D eclarations .......................................................... 638 B. Volunteer Liability for Harms to Patients ............................... 640 C. Licensure Portability of Volunteer Health Personnel .............. 642 C onclusion ................................................................................................. 644 INTRODUCTION Public health emergency preparedness is a national, state, and local priority. Public health and safety authorities at all levels of government and the private sector are working hard to plan, train, allocate resources, and develop relationships in anticipation of significant public health emergencies (such as epidemic infectious disease outbreaks and widespread acts of bioterrorism) or disasters (such as major hurricanes and catastrophic earthquakes). Though important, no amount of planning, relationship-building, resource sharing, or training can fully prepare the nation for the consequences of an emergency. Emergency events like the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, or more recently, Hurricanes * Associate Professor and Executive Director, Center for Law and the Public's Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; J.D., Salmon P. Chase College of Law; L.L.M., Georgetown University Law Center. I would like to thank Jessica P. O'Connell, J.D., M.P.H., and Dru Bhattacharya, J.D., M.P.H., for their contributions to this article.

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