State Preemption: Threat to Democracy, Essential Regulation, and Public Health

Affiliations

¹ Jennifer L. Pomeranz is with the College of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY. Leslie Zellers and Patricia A. Sullivan are consultants in Oakland, CA. Michael Bare and Mark Pertschuk are with Grassroots Change | Preemption Watch, Oakland.

Jennifer L Pomeranz et al. Am J Public Health. 2019 Feb.

. 2019 Feb;109(2):251-252.

doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2018.304861.

¹ Jennifer L. Pomeranz is with the College of Global Public Health, New York University, New York, NY. Leslie Zellers and Patricia A. Sullivan are consultants in Oakland, CA. Michael Bare and Mark Pertschuk are with Grassroots Change | Preemption Watch, Oakland.

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