Title:
Leveraging Legal Epidemiology to Promote Health Equity: Applying Lessons Learned from the Field
Description:
Laws and policies have been central to creating and perpetuating today’s unjust health disparities, but they also can – and should – be used to drive positive change. Legal epidemiology is one tool that practitioners can use to systematically identify and examine legal and policy solutions to today’s major public health challenges.
This session will share lessons learned from the 2023-2024 Legal Epidemiology Learning Cohort, an opportunity hosted by the CDC and ChangeLab Solutions. Four participants will present on their multidisciplinary projects and will describe how they hope to leverage legal epidemiology skills and methods to advance health equity in their jurisdictions. Attendees will then have an opportunity to engage in dialogue with presenters and each other about legal epidemiology opportunities and challenges.
Type:
Roundtable Discussion - 90 Minutes