The Legal Aspects of Expedited Partner Therapy Practice: Do Laws Really Matter?
Ryan Cramer, JD1, Jami Leichliter, PhD2, Mark Stenger, MA3, Lenore Asbel, MD4, Kyle T. Bernstein, PhD, ScM5, Margaret Eaglin, MPH6, Tom Jaenicke, MPH7, Megan Jespersen, MPH8, Penny Loosier, PhD, MPH1, Mukhtar Mohamed, MPH, MA9, Preeti Pathela, PhD10, Nancy Patrick-Dubose, MPH11, Mary Reed, MPH12, Lauren Slive1, Jeff Stover, MPH13 and Jonathan Zenilman, MD14, 1Division of STD Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, 2CDC, Division of STD Prevention, Atlanta, GA, 3DSTDP/Epidemiology & Surveillance Branch, CDC, Atlanta, GA, 4STD Control Program, Philadelphia Department of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA, 5STD Prevention and Control Services, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA, 6City of Chicago Department of Public Health, Chicago, IL, 7Infectious Disease & Reproductive Health Assessment Unit, Washington State Department of Health, Olympia, WA, 8STD/HIV program, Louisiana Office of Public Health, New Orleans, LA, 9STD Control Program, Connecticut Department of Public Health, Hartford, CT, 10Bureau of STD Control and Prevention, The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Long Island City, NY, 11Disease Control-TB/STD, Jefferson County Health Department, Birmingham, AL, 12Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment, Denver, CO, 13Health informatics & Integrated Surveillance Systems, Virginia Department of Health - Division of Disease Prevention, Richmond, VA, 14Division of Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins Center for STI Research & Prevention, Baltimore, MD