This page contains all materials for registrants of the 2021 Legal Epidemiology Satellite Workshop at the 6th Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Conference. If you are a registered attendee of the workshop and have any questions about these materials or how to participate in the live discussions scheduled for March 16-19, 2021, please contact Bethany Saxon at bethany.saxon@temple.edu or 215-204-2134.
Introductory Materials
This satellite conference, funded by the National Science Foundation Law and Science Program, is a global gathering of people whose work in public health law research (also known as legal epidemiology) informs practice and policy at the intersection of law enforcement and public health. The satellite will provide participants with an outlet to share their research, advance scholarship and methods, and support early-career and underrepresented scholars who are interested in studying the effects of criminal law and its enforcement on public health.
Legal epidemiology — the scientific study of law as a factor in the cause, distribution and prevention of disease and injury — is an emerging transdisciplinary field with roots in health, socio-legal and behavioral research. The intersection of law enforcement and public health encompasses both the obvious concerns and questions related to the interaction of law enforcement and communities, and broader questions about the effects of law and policy on security, safety, power, and control. It also asks how these issues interact with health, well-being and equity; all questions legal epidemiologists seek to answer.
- "What is Legal Epidemiology?" video
- Explore foundational theory and methods resources
- Watch "What is Policy Surveillance" video
Plenary Presentations
Keynote discussion: Reflections on the Growth of Legal Epidemiology and Opportunities for the Future
This conversation between eminent public health law researchers explores the past, present and future of the field, and its role in supporting the field of law enforcement and public health. The conversation features Jeffrey Swanson, PhD, Professor in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University School of Medicine, and Faculty Affiliate, Wilson Center for Science and Justice, and Center for Firearms Law, Duke Law School; Alexander Wagenaar, PhD, Research Professor, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University; and Scott Burris, JD, Professor and Director, Center for Public Health Law Research, Temple University Beasley School of Law and the College of Public Health.
This recording is available in full (approximately 80 minutes in length), or five parts:
- Full recording
- Part 1: Getting Real about Research in the Real World
- Part 2: Making a Career in a Transdisciplinary Field
- Part 3: Using Theory to Strengthen Impact
- Part 4: Sharpening the Lens of Racial Equity Concerns in Legal Epidemiology Research
- Part 5: Opportunities for Success in Legal Epidemiology
Framing a Legal Epidemiology Research Agenda on Policing and Public Health
Scott Burris welcomes attendees to the satellite workshop and outlines an agenda for the convening.
Panel Presentations
The Future of Research on the Health Effects of Policing: Panel Discussion
Live: March 16, 2021, 1 p.m. ET
Measuring the Effects of Drug Policy and Its Enforcement on Health
Live: March 17, 2021, 1 p.m. ET
Universal Precautions: A Methodology for Trauma Informed Policing, Daniel Jones, University of Huddersfield & Edmonton Police Service
Building a Research and Policy Lab in a Prosecutor’s Office, Oren Gur and Michael Hollander, Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office
Measuring Health Effects of Legal Drug Use
Live: March 18, 2021, 1 p.m. ET
Racial disparities in the effects of Good Samaritan Laws on overdose mortality, Tarlise Townsend, NYU Department of Population Health
Estimating the impact of prescriber arrest on county-level opioid analgesic supply: New York City and Long Island, New York, 2011-2018, Bennet Allen, Center for Opioid Epidemiology and Policy, Department of Population Health, New York University Grossman School of Medicine
Effects of Problem Court Protocols on participant morbidity and mortality, Elizabeth Van Nostrand, University of Pittsburgh
Impact of algorithms designed into interstate data sharing, Terri Lewis, National Changhua University of Education (Taiwan)
Legal Mapping
Live: March 19, 2021, 3 p.m. ET
Measuring Tribal Law: Some Considerations, Lorinda Riley, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Marital Age and Statutory Rape Laws, Kaya Van Roost, McGill Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health
Policy tracking with criminal justice and corrections departments, Alexandra Hess, and Sabrina Ruchelli, Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research
Impacts of Police Practices on Health Effects and Social Determinants of Health
Live: March 19, 2021, 5 p.m. ET
Patterns of Marijuana Enforcement, Spruha Joshi, New York University
Infanticide and reproductive (in)justice in the South Pacific, Kate Burry, Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales