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- Assistant Professor
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Schmit, Cason Assistant Professor
Positions
- Assistant Professor, Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health
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.
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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Publications
selected publications
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academic article
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Schmit, C. D., Doerr, M. J., & Wagner, J. K.
(2023).
Leveraging IP for AI governance. Science.
379(6633), 646-648.
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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),
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Karim, M. A., Kum, H., & Schmit, C. D.
(2022).
A Study of Publicly Available Resources Addressing Legal Data-Sharing Barriers: Systematic Assessment. Journal of Medical Internet Research.
24(9), e39333-e39333.
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Washburn, D. J., Callaghan, T., Schmit, C., Thompson, E., Martinez, D., & Lafleur, M.
(2022).
Community health worker roles and their evolving interprofessional relationships in the United States. Journal of Interprofessional Care.
36(4), 545-551.
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Stone, K. W., Felkner, M., Garza, E., Perez-Patron, M., Schmit, C. D., McDonald, T. J., & Horney, J. A.
(2022).
Changes to Timeliness and Completeness of Infectious Disease Reporting in Texas After Implementation of an Epidemiologic Capacity Program. Public Health Reports.
137(4), 679-686.
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Schmit, C. D., Washburn, D. J., LaFleur, M., Martinez, D., Thompson, E., & Callaghan, T.
(2022).
Community Health Worker Sustainability: Funding, Payment, and Reimbursement Laws in the United States. Public Health Reports.
137(3), 597-603.
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Bloomfield, S. A., Dunbar, B. J., Schmit, C. D., Sawyer, A. J., & Charles, J. B.
(2022).
Developing an international database on long-term health effects of spaceflight. Acta Astronautica.
198, 347-353.
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Stone, K. W., Felkner, M., Garza, E., Perez-Patron, M., Schmit, C., McDonald, T. J., & Horney, J. A.
(2022).
Epidemiology Surveillance and Capacity Improvement: A Characterization of Texas, 2017. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness.
16(3), 999-1006.
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Callaghan, T., McCord, C., Washburn, D., Goidel, K., Schmit, C., Nuzhath, T., Spiegelman, A., & Scobee, J.
(2022).
The Changing Nature of Telehealth Use by Primary Care Physicians in the United States. Journal of Primary Care and Community Health.
13, 21501319221110418-215013192211104.
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Giannouchos, T. V., Ferdinand, A. O., Ilangovan, G., Ragan, E., Nowell, W. B., Kum, H., & Schmit, C. D.
(2021).
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. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
28(8), 1746-1755.
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Schmit, C., Giannouchos, T., Ramezani, M., Zheng, Q. i., Morrisey, M. A., & Kum, H.
(2021).
US Privacy Laws Go Against Public Preferences and Impede Public Health and Research: Survey Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research.
23(7), e25266-e25266.
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Schmit, C., Ajayi, K. V., Ferdinand, A. O., Giannouchos, T., Ilangovan, G., Nowell, W. B., & Kum, H.
(2020).
Communicating With Patients About Software for Enhancing Privacy in Secondary Database Research Involving Record Linkage: Delphi Study. Journal of Medical Internet Research.
22(12), e20783-e20783.
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Stone, K. W., Felkner, M., Perez-Patron, M., Schmit, C., McDonald, T. J., & Horney, J. A.
(2019).
How Do Infectious Disease Epidemiologist Positions Increase Public Health Capacity? Results from a Qualitative Study of Local Health Departments. Health Security.
17(6), 454-461.
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Schmit, C. D., Wetter, S. A., & Kash, B. A.
(2018).
Falling short: how state laws can address health information exchange barriers and enablers. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
25(6), 635-644.
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Dingman, D. A., & Schmit, C. D.
(2018).
Authority of Pharmacists to Administer Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: Alignment of State Laws With Age-Level Recommendations. Public Health Reports.
133(1), 55-63.
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Brown-Podgorski, B. L., Hilts, K. E., Kash, B. A., Schmit, C. D., & Vest, J. R.
(2018).
The Association Between State-Level Health Information Exchange Laws and Hospital Participation in Community Health Information Organizations. Proceedings / AMIA ... Annual Symposium. AMIA Symposium.
2018, 313-320.
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Schmit, C. D., & Penn, M. S.
(2017).
Expanding state laws and a growing role for pharmacists in vaccination services. 57(6), 661-669.
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Schmit, C., Sunshine, G., Pepin, D., Ramanathan, T., Menon, A., & Penn, M.
(2017).
Transitioning From Paper to Digital: State Statutory and Regulatory Frameworks for Health Information Technology. 132(5), 585-592.
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Barraza, L., Schmit, C., & Hoss, A.
(2017).
The Latest in Vaccine Policies: Selected Issues in School Vaccinations, Healthcare Worker Vaccinations, and Pharmacist Vaccination Authority Laws. The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics.
45(1_suppl), 16-19.
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Ramanathan, T., Schmit, C., Menon, A., & Fox, C.
(2015).
The role of law in supporting secondary uses of electronic health information. The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics.
43 Suppl 1(0 1), 48-51.
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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.
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chapter
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Hulkower, R., Penn, M., & Schmit, C.
(2020).
Privacy and Confidentiality of Public Health Information. Public Health Informatics and Information Systems.
(pp. 147-166).
Springer Nature.
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Hulkower, R., Penn, M., & Schmit, C.
(2020).
Privacy and Confidentiality of Public Health Information. Public Health Informatics and Information Systems.
(pp. 147-166).
Springer Nature.
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conference paper
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Schmit, C., Kelly, K., & Bernstein, J.
(2019).
Cross Sector Data Sharing: Necessity, Challenge, and Hope. The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics.
83-86.
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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.
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Schmit, C., Kelly, K., & Bernstein, J.
(2019).
Cross Sector Data Sharing: Necessity, Challenge, and Hope. The Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics.
83-86.
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institutional repository document
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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)
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Schmit, C.
(2023).
Ongoing and Emerging Issues in Privacy and Security in a Post COVID-19 Era: An Environmental Scan
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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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Schmit, C., Willis, B., & Teel, E.
(2022).
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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Schmit, C., Larson, B., & Kum, H.
(2021).
Data Privacy in the Time of Plague
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Schmit, C., Giannouchos, T., Ramezani, M., Zheng, Q. i., Morrisey, M. A., & Kum, H.
(2020).
US Privacy Laws Go Against Public Preferences and Impede Public Health and Research: Survey Study (Preprint)
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Schmit, C., Ajayi, K. V., Ferdinand, A. O., Giannouchos, T., Ilangovan, G., Nowell, W. B., & Kum, H.
(2020).
Communicating With Patients About Software for Enhancing Privacy in Secondary Database Research Involving Record Linkage: Delphi Study (Preprint)
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Li, Q., D'Souza, A. G., Schmit, C., & Kum, H.
(2019).
Increasing Transparent and Accountable Use of Data by Quantifying the Actual Privacy Risk in Interactive Record Linkage
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Schmit, C.
(2017).
State Law Landscape for Health Information Technology
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Schmit, C., Ramanathan, T., Sunshine, G., & Menon, A.
(2015).
Electronic Health Information Research Anthology: Selected Readings
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Schmit, C.
(2015).
Paying for Success in Public Health Financing
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Ramanathan, T., Schmit, C., Menon, A., Sunshine, G., & Pepin, D.
(2015).
Federal Public Health Laws Supporting Data Use and Sharing
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Schmit, C.
(2015).
Paying for Success in Public Health Financing
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Schmit, C., & Penn, M.
(2014).
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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Ramanathan, T., Menon, A., & Schmit, C.
(2014).
Assessing Electronic Health Records Laws
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Schmit, C.
(2014).
An Introduction to Social Impact Bonds
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Schmit, C.
(2014).
Introduction to Social Impact Bonds
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Schmit, C., Ramanathan, T., & Menon, A.
(2014).
Mapping Electronic Health Records Laws
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Schmit, C.
(2014).
Public Health Law and Policy Innovations: Social Impact Bonds
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Schmit, C.
(2014).
Social Impact Bonds: A Research Anthology
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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)
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webpage
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Sundar, S. S., Schmit, C., & Villasenor, J.
(2023).
Regulating AI: 3 experts explain why its difficult to do and important to get right
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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
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Schmit, C.
(2019).
The tricky ethics of Googles Project Nightingale, an effort to learn from millions of health records
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Sundar, S. S., Schmit, C., & Villasenor, J.
(2023).
Regulating AI: 3 experts explain why its difficult to do and important to get right
Research
co-principal investigator on
investigator on
Teaching
teaching activities
- PHPM633 Health Law Ethics Instructor
- PHPM680 Health Systems Leadership Instructor
- PHPM685 Directed Studies Instructor
- PHPM686 Directed Research Instructor
- PHPM691 Research Instructor
- PHPM791 Doctoral Capstone Instructor
- SOPH601 Think Popl Publ Hlth Mindset Instructor
- SOPH602 Inv & Cntrl Acute Publ Hlth Ev Instructor
- SOPH603 Assess & Interv Wicked Prob Instructor
- SOPH604 Framg & Persus Pub Hlth Pub Sp Instructor
Background
education and training
- J.D., Arizona State University - (Tempe, Arizona, United States) 2012
- B.A. in Mathematics and Psychology, Willamette University - (Salem, Oregon, United States) 2007
Contact
first name
- Cason
has last name
- Schmit
mailing address
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Texas A&M Health Science Center
Health Policy And Management
1266 TAMUS
College Station, TX 77843-1266
USA
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In the News
- schmit@tamu.edu