Public Health Law and Legal Epidemiology
This Preventive Medicine Grand Rounds session is scheduled for:
Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. ET
Public Health Grand Rounds (PHGR) will continue to promote Preventive Medicine Grand Rounds (PMGR) while our monthly PHGR sessions are on hold. We welcome your questions. Please email us at grandrounds@cdc.gov
Public Health Law and Legal Epidemiology
This Grand Rounds presentation will provide an overview of public health law and legal epidemiology—the scientific study of law as a factor in the cause, distribution, and prevention of disease and injury in a population.
Law is a tool that can be used to protect and promote the health of the public. Law has been critical in attaining public health goals including detecting and controlling the spread of communicable diseases, pursuing safer workplaces and housing, ensuring high childhood immunization rates, improving motor vehicle safety, and more.
Studying the interaction of law and public health allows public health professionals to use legal solutions to create positive health outcomes, as well as assess how law is used to disparately impact populations. Participants will be introduced to the Public Health Law Program and how public health law research can be applied in practice. Additionally, participants will learn how legal epidemiology can be used
- in all public health research and programming
- to identify laws that promote public health
- to understand which laws improve or create disparities in health outcomes
Matthew Penn, JD, MLIS
Director
CDC Office of Public Health Law Services
Darian Diepholz, JD, MPH
Public Health Analyst
Tanaq Support Services, LLC
Sam Bent-Weber, JD
Lead, Research Innovation and Workforce Capacity Building
CDC Public Health Law Program
Rachel Hulkower, JD, MSPH
Lead, Legal Epidemiology Research Design & Implementation
CDC Public Health Law Program
Mara Howard-Williams, JD, MPH
Public Health Analyst
CDC
- Wednesday, October 5, 2022, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. ET
- Remote participation only through Zoom:
Passcode (if prompted): PMGR_1005
These Grand Rounds presentations are provided as a courtesy of CDC’s Preventive Medicine Residency and Fellowship (PMR/F) program with the goal of sharing systems-based approaches and leadership practices to address population health issues and public health emergencies.
Continuing education (CE) is available and there is no cost for this activity. For more details, go to https://www.cdc.gov/prevmed/pmgr/upcoming-lectures.html.
For More Information
Please contact the PMR/F program at prevmed@cdc.gov or visit the Preventive Medicine Grand Rounds web page.