Helpful legal epidemiology readings, training, and resources
Software for Legal Mapping
MonQcle Software – Access our software to identify, code, and analyze laws and policies, then visualize, share, and update their findings all in one place. Attendees of this workshop are eligible for a free subscription. Contact [click-for-email] to get started.
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Legal Epi Training and Instruction
- CPHLR Global Certificate in Legal Epidemiology – three, self-paced modules (about 16 hours of instruction) teaching public health law, policy surveillance, and an introduction to evaluation
- Training webinars – Attend a free CPHLR-hosted webinar providing an introduction to policy surveillance or advanced methods or issues in legal epidemiology.
- Policy Surveillance Institute – Our next Institute will be Summer 2026. Sign up to receive a notification when more details are available
- Policy Surveillance Self-Guided Training – eight modules introducing each step of the policy surveillance process
- Master of Science in Legal Epidemiology – This forthcoming program program will be the first of its kind, a public health policy-focused degree designed for public health and legal professionals that integrates legal theory with epidemiological methods, enabling practitioners to examine policies and laws through a scientifically rigorous approach.
Additional Reading and Resources
Five Essential Public Health Law Services and Public Health Law
- The New Public Health Law, Second Edition (use code ALAUTHC4 for 30% discount at Oxford University Press)
- Better Health Faster: The Five Essential Public Health Law Services
Policy Surveillance and Scientific Legal Mapping
- Coding Case Law for Public Health Law Evaluation
- Measuring Statutory Law and Regulations for Empirical Research
- Sentinel Surveillance of Emerging Laws and Policies
- Improving the Transparency of Legal Measurement in Health Policy Evaluation—A Guide for Researchers, Reviewers, and Editors
Ratings and Rankings
Public Health Law Evaluations
- Legal Epidemiology: Theory and Methods, second edition (use code PSY20 for 20% discount at Wiley) (Note: many of the chapters from this textbook are included in the CPHLR Theory and Methods Literature library)
- Identifying data for the empirical assessment of law (IDEAL): A realist approach to research gaps on the health effects of abortion law
- Natural Experiments: Design Elements for Optimal Causal Inference Without Randomization
- Randomized Trials in Legal Epidemiology