My research focus has been on the use of law and legal interventions to further public health and injury prevention goals. I have concentrated on the ways in which science, law, regulation, and litigation can work together to reduce the incidence and severity of injuries, particularly those caused by firearms, motor vehicles, and other consumer products.

More specifically, I have worked to evaluate the effects of various laws to prevent firearm and other injuries. I have also examined constitutional and other legal issues associated with injury prevention, obesity, public health preparedness, and tobacco control.

Health Policy and Management, Firearm Policy, Violence Prevention, Injury Prevention and Control, Public Health Law, Motor Vehicles

Cum Laude Law School Graduate

Public Health Honor Society — Delta Omega, Alpha Chapter

SCC Teaching and Advising Award: given by the students of the Department of Health Policy and Management, 2000

Advising, Mentoring, and Teaching Recognition Award (AMTRA), 2005.

Vernick JS, Teret SP, Webster DW. Regulating firearm advertisements that promise home protection: a public health intervention. JAMA 1997; 277:1391-1397.

Vernick JS. Lobbying and advocacy for the public’s health: what are the limits for non-profit organizations. Am J Public Health 1999; 89:1425-1429.

Vernick JS, Teret SP. A public health approach to regulating firearms as consumer products. University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2000;148:1193-1211.

Vernick JS, Mair JS, Teret SP, Sapsin JW. Role of litigation in preventing product-related injuries. Epidemiol Rev. 2003;25:90-98.

Vernick JS, O’Brien M, Hepburn LM, Johnson SB, Webster DW, Hargarten SW. Unintentional and undetermined firearm-related deaths: a preventable death analysis for three safety devices. Injury Prevention 2003;9:307-311.

Vernick JS, Sapsin JW, Teret SP, Mair JS. How litigation can promote product safety. Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 2004;32:551-555.

Lewin NL, Vernick JS, Beilenson PL, Lindamood M, Mair JS, Teret SP, Webster DW. The Baltimore youth ammunition initiative: a model application of local public health authority in preventing gun violence. Am J Public Health 2005;95:762-765.

Sapsin JW, Gostin LO, Vernick JS, Burris S, Teret SP. SARS and legal preparedness. Temple University Law Review 2005;77:155-174.

Frattaroli S, Vernick JS. Separating batterers and guns: a review and analysis of gun removal laws in 50 states. Evaluation Review, 2006;30:296-312

Webster DW, Bulzacchelli MT, Zeoli AM, Vernick JS. Effects of undercover police stings of gun dealers on the supply of new guns to criminals. Injury Prevention. 2006;12:225-230.

Webster DW, Vernick JS, Bulzacchelli MT. Effects of a gun dealer’s change in sales practices on the supply of guns to criminals. Journal of Urban Health 2006;83:778-787.

Vernick JS, Teret SP, Smith GA, Webster DW. Counseling about firearms: proposed legislation is a threat to physicians and their patients. Pediatrics 2006;118:2168-2172.

Vernick JS. Injury prevention policy forum. Injury Prevention 2006;12:382-384.

Vernick JS, Webster DW, Bulzacchelli MT, Mair JS. Regulation of firearm dealers in the United States: an analysis of state law and opportunities for improvement. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 2006;34:765-775.

Glenshaw MT, Vernick JS, Li G, Sorock GS, Brown S, Mallonee S. Preventing fatalities in building bombings: what can we learn from the Oklahoma City bombing? Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness 2007;1:27-33.

Vernick JS, Webster DW. Policies to prevent firearm trafficking. Injury Prevention 2007;13:78-79.

Hodge JG, Gostin LO, Vernick JS. The Pandemic and All-Hazards Emergency Preparedness Act: improving public health emergency response. JAMA 2007;297:1708-1711.

Vernick JS, Rutkow L, Teret SP. Public health benefits of recent litigation against the tobacco industry. JAMA 2007;298:86-89.

Bulzacchelli MT, Vernick JS, Webster DW, Lees PS. Effects of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s control of hazardous energy (lockout/tagout) standard on rates of machinery-related fatal occupational injury. Injury Prevention 2007;13:334-338.

Rutkow L, Vernick JS, Teret SP. Banning second-hand smoke in indoor public places under the Americans with Disabilities Act: a legal and public health imperative. Connecticut Law Review 2007;40:409-458.

Vernick JS, Hodge JG, Webster DW. The ethics of restrictive licensing for handguns: comparing the United States and Canadian approaches to handgun regulation. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics 2007;35:668-678.

Vernick JS, Rutkow L, Salmon D. Availability of litigation as a tool for firearm injury prevention: comparing guns, vaccines, and motor vehicles. American Journal of Public Health, 2007;97:1991-1997.

Glenshaw MT, Vernick JS, Li G, Sorock GS, Brown S, Mallonee S. Factors associated with injury severity in Oklahoma City bombing survivors. Journal of Trauma, in press 2007.

Uscher-Pines L, Vernick JS, Curriero F, Lieberman R, Burke TA. Disaster-related injuries in the period of recovery: the effects of prolonged displacement on risk of injury in older adults. Journal of Trauma, 2008 in press.

Rutkow L, Vernick JS, Hodge J, Teret SP. Preemption and the obesity epidemic: state and local menu labeling laws and the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics, 2008 in press.

Meisel ZF, Hargarten SW, Vernick JS. Addressing pre-hospital patient safety using the science of injury prevention and control. Prehospital Emergency Care, 2008 in press.

Bulzacchelli MT, Vernick JS, Sorock G, Webster DW, Lees P. Circumstances of fatal lockout/tagout injuries in manufacturing. American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2008 in press.