Law & Public Health Practice

Department
  • Master's Program International Health & Social Management
Course unit code
  • IHSM-EU-HEM-M3.1
Number of ECTS credits allocated
  • 5.0
Name of lecturer(s)
  • Dr. Mosenhauer Natacha, FH-Prof. Dr. Frischhut Markus, LL.M., Dr. Fahy Nick, CPsychol
Mode of delivery
  • -
Recommended optional program components
  • none
Recommended or required reading
  • Frischhut M. (2017). What one should know about the European Union (EU). A quick introduction to EU law (4th edition). Wien: NWV; or equivalent book, especially if it is more comprehensive / detailed.

    Frischhut, M. (2017). Legal and Ethical Issues of Cross-Border Reproductive Care from an EU Perspective: Chapter 17. In M. K. Smith & L. Puczkó (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Health Tourism (pp. 203-218). London, New York: Taylor & Francis.

    Frischhut, M., & Greer, S. L. (2017). EU public health law and policy - communicable diseases. In T. K. Hervey, C. Young, & L. E. Bishop (Eds.), Research Handbook on EU Health Law and Policy (pp. 315-346). Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing.

    Frischhut, M. (2021). Communicable and Other Infectious Diseases: The EU Perspective. In T. K. Hervey & D. Orentlicher (Eds.), Oxford handbooks. The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Health Law (pp. 77-96). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190846756.013.48

    Tallacchini, M. (2017). Medical Technologies and EU Law: The Evolution of Regulatory Approaches and Governance. In M. Cremona (Ed.), New technologies and EU law (pp. 9-37). Oxford: Oxford University Press (GBP).

    EHDS Regulation: Regulation (EU) 2025/327 on the European Health Data Space [...], http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2025/327/ojMentioned on slides.
Additional information about examination modalities
  • Course-immanent examination or final exam or combination of both examination types. See also information on slides concerning the exam.
Level of course unit
  • Master
Year of study
  • Fall 2026
Semester when the course unit is delivered
  • 3
Language of instruction
  • English
Learning outcomes of the course unit
  • Students will be aware of the significance and possible implications of the EU’s values (general as well as health-related ones) and the ‘corner-stone’ of human dignity in some selected fields of public health.
    Students will be able to identify possible challenges in the field of Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART), including surrogacy.
    Students will be familiar with the EU’s acquis on communicable disease control (CDC), both in general and with regard to the EU’s values.
    Students can reflect on the significance of human dignity and the other EU values in the field of new technologies and digitalisation.
    Students can reflect on selected questions of the primary and secondary use of health data under the EHDS regulation.
Course contents
  • -EU institutions, decision-making, sources
    -How to solve (health-related) cases in the context of the fundamental freedoms
    -Cross-border healthcare vs. medical tourism
    -Patient rights
    -Assisted reproductive technologies (ART), including surrogacy
    -Stem cell patentability
    -Communicable diseases
    -Knowledge into action I: the role of evidence in policy
    -Knowledge into action II: the role of people, networks and interests in policy
    -Micro-level decision-making: the case of rationing in the UK NHS
    -The case of technology adoption
    -Focus on the Public-Private Partnerships framework as one of the legal tools to provide services of general interest
    -Analysis of nonprofit organizations in the EU and US legal context
    -Analysis of EU law and of some of the ECJ decisions
    -Understand Public Health intervention examples in the Global South and their importance for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
    -Understand the overall logic of a logframe and how it helps to plan projects
    -Being able to prepare an own logframe on a health-related project addressing SDG 3
    -Understand importance and methods for stakeholder and local people's involvement in projects
    -Understanding the need for good indicators to monitor projects
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
  • The course comprises an interactive mix of lectures, discussions and individual and group work.
Work placement(s)
  • none

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