# overview
Cason Schmit is an assistant professor at the Department of Health Policy and Management where he actively researches the role of law in health systems.

Prior to joining Texas A&M University, he worked for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Public Health Law Program as an Oak Ridge Institute for Science Education legal fellow (2013-2015) and as a federal contractor (2015-2016). There he worked with public health professionals within CDC centers and offices and state, tribal, local, and territorial partners to promote the use of law as a tool to improve the public's health. His research with CDC focused on the role of law in health system transformation, including the use of electronic health information to promote public health, state innovation models, pay-for-success initiatives, and pharmacists' vaccination authority.

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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8.3 Policy, Ethics, And Research Governance

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Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act

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16 Peace, Justice And Strong Institutions

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8.3 Policy, Ethics, And Research Governance

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8 Health And Social Care Services Research

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Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act

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Centers For Disease Control And Prevention, U.s.

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Arizona State University - (Tempe, Arizona, United States)

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Willamette University - (Salem, Oregon, United States)

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Authority of Pharmacists to Administer Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: Alignment of State Laws With Age-Level Recommendations.

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Paying for Success in Public Health Financing

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2014 Public Health Informatics Conference

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Assessing Electronic Health Records Laws

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Transitioning From Paper to Digital: State Statutory and Regulatory Frameworks for Health Information Technology.

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Social Impact Bonds: A Research Anthology

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Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Intractable? Identifying Consensus Policy Opportunities to Address Legal and Ethical Challenges in National Public Health Surveillance from State and Local Epidemiologist Leaders.

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Florida Chronic Disease Prevention Coalition All-Member Webinar

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The tricky ethics of Googles Project Nightingale, an effort to learn from millions of health records

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The Association Between State-Level Health Information Exchange Laws and Hospital Participation in Community Health Information Organizations.

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State Law Landscape for Health Information Technology

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Falling short: how state laws can address health information exchange barriers and enablers.

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Paying for Success in Public Health Financing

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The Role of State Policy in Fostering Health Information Exchange in the United States

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Developing an international database on long-term health effects of spaceflight

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A Study of Publicly Available Resources Addressing Legal Data-Sharing Barriers: Systematic Assessment.

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Views on increased federal access to state and local National Syndromic Surveillance Program data: a nominal group technique study with state and local epidemiologists.

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The Changing Nature of Telehealth Use by Primary Care Physicians in the United States.

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Privacy and Confidentiality of Public Health Information

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Identifying and prioritizing benefits and risks of using privacy-enhancing software through participatory design: a nominal group technique study with patients living with chronic conditions.

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Data privacy laws in the US protect profit but prevent sharing data for public good – people want the opposite

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Epidemiology Surveillance and Capacity Improvement: A Characterization of Texas, 2017.

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Regulating AI: 3 experts explain why its difficult to do and important to get right

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Electronic Health Information Research Anthology: Selected Readings

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Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Enhancing Privacy through an Interactive On-demand Incremental Information Disclosure Interface: Applying Privacy-by-Design to Record Linkage

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Communicating With Patients About Software for Enhancing Privacy in Secondary Database Research Involving Record Linkage: Delphi Study.

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Dying in Darkness: Deviations from Data-Sharing Ethics in the US Public Health System and the Data Genocide of Indian and Alaska Native Communities (Preprint)

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Changing US Support for Public Health Data Use Through Pandemic and Political Turmoil.

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Data Sharing in a Decentralized Public Health System: Lessons From COVID-19 Syndromic Surveillance.

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Ongoing and Emerging Issues in Privacy and Security in a Post COVID-19 Era: An Environmental Scan

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National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics

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Association of State and Territorial Health Officials

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AI Governance: A Challenge for Public Health.

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Communicating With Patients About Software for Enhancing Privacy in Secondary Database Research Involving Record Linkage: Delphi Study (Preprint)

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Federal Public Health Laws Supporting Data Use and Sharing

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Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Cross Sector Data Sharing: Necessity, Challenge, and Hope.

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US Privacy Laws Go Against Public Preferences and Impede Public Health and Research: Survey Study.

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16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

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Changes to Timeliness and Completeness of Infectious Disease Reporting in Texas After Implementation of an Epidemiologic Capacity Program.

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The Latest in Vaccine Policies: Selected Issues in School Vaccinations, Healthcare Worker Vaccinations, and Pharmacist Vaccination Authority Laws.

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Public Health Law and Policy Innovations: Social Impact Bonds

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Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Community health worker roles and their evolving interprofessional relationships in the United States.

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Community Health Worker Sustainability: Funding, Payment, and Reimbursement Laws in the United States.

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Federal Participation in Innovative Public Health Financing: the Social Impact Bond Act (HR 4885) and the Pay for Performance Act (S.2691)

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Office for State, Tribal, Local and Territorial Support, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Expanding state laws and a growing role for pharmacists in vaccination services.

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The role of law in supporting secondary uses of electronic health information.

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US Privacy Laws Go Against Public Preferences and Impede Public Health and Research: Survey Study (Preprint)

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Data Sharing in a Decentralized Public Health System: Lessons From COVID-19 Syndromic Surveillance (Preprint)

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How Do Infectious Disease Epidemiologist Positions Increase Public Health Capacity? Results from a Qualitative Study of Local Health Departments.

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Increasing Transparent and Accountable Use of Data by Quantifying the Actual Privacy Risk in Interactive Record Linkage

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Review of Federal Access Policies for National Syndromic Surveillance Program Data: Findings and Implementation Strategies

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Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists

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Retired Astronauts Medical Data Repository (RADAR): a Feasibility Project

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National Aeronautics and Space Administration - (Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States)

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Rural Health Research Grant Program Cooperative Agreement

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Health Resources and Services Administration - (Rockville, Maryland, United States)

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Texas A&M Health Science Center; Health Policy And Management; 1266 TAMUS

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TAMU study on big data shows most Americans want eased access to advance public health