LawAtlas Success Stories:
  • Kelly Thompson, Esq.
    Health Policy Expert
  • Laura Thomas, MPH, MPP
    Deputy State Director, California, of the Drug Policy Alliance
  • Alessandra Ross, MPH
    Injection Drug Use Specialist
  • Bryce Pardo, PhD
    Associate Director, Drug Policy Research Center; Policy Researcher
  • Benjamin Mason Meier, JD, LLM, PhD
    Professor of global health policy in the Dept. of Public Policy and the Dept. of Health Policy and Mgmt. at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
  • Darrell Klein, JD
    Deputy Director of Public Health Nebraska DHHS at State of Nebraska
  • Manel Kappagoda, JD, MPH
    Program Director and Senior Staff Attorney ChangeLab Solutions Oakland, CA
  • Emalie Huriaux, MPH
    Integration, Hepatitis C, and Drug User Health Program Manager for the Washington State Department of Health
  • Rachel Hulkower, JD, MSPH
    Public Health Analyst at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Micah Berman, JD
    Associate professor of public health and law at The Ohio State University's College of Public Health and Michael E. Moritz College of Law
  • Maya Doe-Simkins, MPH
    Public health educator, researcher and consultant
  • Nabarun Dasgupta, MPH, PhD
    Epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill
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    Integration, Hepatitis C, and Drug User Health Program Manager for the Washington State Department of Health
    "We have only two people on our staff who do policy work; we would never have time to do this kind of a review when we provide technical assistance."

    Emalie’s story:

    My organization does community education and some policy work in California and nationwide on issues related to HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis C. I will often get questions from legislators about what other states are doing in areas where we work. When we were advocating for the syringe supply clearinghouse, it was nice to have a simple tool to use that had all that information there already so we could answer questions.

    Legislators tend to want to know what their counterparts are doing in other parts of the country. With Lawatlas, we can see what everyone else is doing easily, and at a glance. We have only two people on our staff who do policy work; we would never have time to do this kind of a review when we provide technical assistance.

    In the federal context we’re in, I see the state-based work becoming more and more important. I have been trying to help colleagues in other states think through their responses to things like Hep C, based on what’s already been done. We find ourselves saying, “If only someone had looked at all 50 states…” and then we realize “oh, someone did do that!”

    Emalie Huriaux is the director of federal and state affairs for Project Inform.