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Abstract: This article is one of the four interrelated action agenda papers resulting from the National Summit on Public Health Legal Preparedness (Summit) convened in June 2007 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and multi-disciplinary partners. This action agenda offers options for consideration by those responsible for or interested in ensuring that public health professionals, their legal counsels, and relevant partners understand the legal framework in which they operate and are competent in applying legal authorities to public health emergency preparedness. This action paper frames an agenda for advancing legal competencies as a core element in effective public health emergency preparedness. The agenda identifies activities in response to identified gaps in 4 areas: (1) expanding the range of sectors that should have competency in public health legal preparedness, (2) improving competency specification, (3) disseminating competency information to key target audiences, and (4) improving measurement and evaluation of practice impacts.
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