Schmit, Cason
individual record
Assistant Professor
Positions:
- Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health
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.
education and training
- J.D. in , Arizona State University - (Tempe, Arizona, United States) 2012
- B.A. in Mathematics and Psychology, Willamette University - (Salem, Oregon, United States) 2007
selected publications
Academic Articles24
- Schmit, C. D., Larson, B. N., Tanabe, T., Ramezani, M., Zheng, Q. I., & Kum, H. (2024). Changing US Support for Public Health Data Use Through Pandemic and Political Turmoil.. Milbank Quarterly. 102(2), 463-502.
- Rigby, R. C., Ferdinand, A. O., Kum, H., & Schmit, C. (2024). Data Sharing in a Decentralized Public Health System: Lessons From COVID-19 Syndromic Surveillance.. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance. 10, e52587-e52587.
- Schmit, C. D., Willis, B., McCall, H., Altabbaa, A., & Washburn, D. (2023). Views on increased federal access to state and local National Syndromic Surveillance Program data: a nominal group technique study with state and local epidemiologists.. BMC Public Health. 23(1), 431.
- Schmit, C. D., Doerr, M. J., & Wagner, J. K. (2023). Leveraging IP for AI governance.. Science. 379(6633), 646-648.
- Bronsoler, A., Doyle, J., Schmit, C., & Van Reenen, J. (2023). The Role of State Policy in Fostering Health Information Exchange in the United States. 4(1),
Chapters1
- Hulkower, R., Penn, M., & Schmit, C. (2020). Privacy and Confidentiality of Public Health Information. Public Health Informatics and Information Systems. 147-166. Springer Nature.
Conference Papers2
- Schmit, C., Kelly, K., & Bernstein, J. (2019). Cross Sector Data Sharing: Necessity, Challenge, and Hope.. The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics. 47(2_suppl), 83-86.
- Kum, H., Ragan, E. D., Ilangovan, G., Ramezani, M., Li, Q., & Schmit, C. (2019). Enhancing Privacy through an Interactive On-demand Incremental Information Disclosure Interface: Applying Privacy-by-Design to Record Linkage. 175-189.
Repository Documents / Preprints20
- Rigby, R. C., Ferdinand, A. O., Kum, H., & Schmit, C. (2023). Data Sharing in a Decentralized Public Health System: Lessons From COVID-19 Syndromic Surveillance (Preprint).
- Schmit, C., Willis, B., Teel, E., & Washburn, D. (2023). Review of Federal Access Policies for National Syndromic Surveillance Program Data: Findings and Implementation Strategies.
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Internet Publications3
- Sundar, S. S., Schmit, C., & Villasenor, J. (2023). Regulating AI: 3 experts explain why its difficult to do and important to get right. - An article submitted to The Conversation
- Schmit, C., Larson, B. N., & Kum, H. (2021). Data privacy laws in the US protect profit but prevent sharing data for public good – people want the opposite. - An article submitted to The Conversation
- Schmit, C. (2019). The tricky ethics of Googles Project Nightingale, an effort to learn from millions of health records. - An article submitted to The Conversation
in the news
- TAMU study on big data shows most Americans want eased access to advance public health KBTX-TV 3 News July 18, 2021
researcher on
Co-Principal Investigator1
Investigator1
- Rural Health Research Grant Program Cooperative Agreement awarded by DHHS-HRSA-Office of Rural Health Policy 2016 - 2020
recent teaching activities
- PHPM633 Health Law Ethics Instructor
- PHPM680 Health Systems Leadership Instructor
- PHPM685 Directed Study Instructor
- PHPM686 Directed Research Instructor
- PHPM691 Research Instructor
Email
schmit@tamu.edu
First Name
Cason
Last Name
Schmit
mailing address
Texas A&M Health Science Center; Health Policy And Management; 1266 TAMUS
College Station, TX 77843-1266
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