Taken to court: defending public health authority to access medical records during an outbreak investigation

Affiliation

• ¹ Elizabeth Daly is Chief of the Infectious Disease Surveillance Section at NHDHHS in Concord, New Hampshire. Jeanne Herrick was an Attorney with the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office in the New Hampshire Department of Justice in Concord and is currently Legal Counsel for the Community College System of New Hampshire in Concord. Elizabeth Maynard is Legal Counsel and José Montero is Director of the Division of Public Health Services at NHDHHS. Christine Adamski is Chief of the Bureau of Infectious Disease Control at NHDHHS. Jodie Dionne-Odom was the Deputy State Epidemiologist at NHDHHS and was Assistant Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases and International Health at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth in Lebanon, New Hampshire. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine in Infectious Disease at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama. Elizabeth Talbot is the Deputy State Epidemiologist at NHDHHS and Associate Professor of Medicine in Infectious Diseases and International Health at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. Sharon Alroy-Preis was the State Epidemiologist at NHDHHS and is currently Director of the Quality and Patient Safety Division, Lady Davis Carmel Medical Center, Haifa, Israel.