Our free monthly webinar series introduces introductory and advanced policy surveillance methods and applications. We offer two webinar tracks: Introduction to Policy Surveillance and Advanced Policy Surveillance Training
Introduction to Policy Surveillance
This training provides a broad overview of policy surveillance methods and applications. Attendees will learn the differences between scientific legal mapping techniques (e.g., policy surveillance, legal assessments), the steps of the policy surveillance process, and uses for the data.
Upcoming Introductory Webinars:
February 11, 2025, 12 p.m. ET / REGISTER
Legal Epi at Lunch: Advanced Topics and Methods in Scientific Legal Mapping and Legal Epidemiology
The Legal Epi at Lunch Webinar Series focuses on exploring in-depth methodological issues or approaches in scientific legal mapping and legal epidemiology research. Each one-hour session will include expert staff from the Center for Public Health Law Research and guest researchers and practitioners using legal epidemiology methods in a unique or innovative way and will offer best practices, technology solutions, tips, and tricks for attendees.
Upcoming Legal Epi at Lunch Webinars:
Surveilling Institutional Policies
February 14, 2025, 12 p.m. ET / REGISTER
Scientific legal mapping, despite its name, can be used to capture and compare any text that sets rules or guidelines. As long as the standards appear in written form, scientific legal mapping or policy surveillance can be performed on governance standards that are not typically defined as “law” — these may be institutional policies, court case settlements, or other official standards or guidelines set by governments, institutions or organizations.
In this webinar, the panelists will share examples of data that capture institutional policies, such as hospital policies, court case settlements, and school district policies. They will discuss the nuances of coding this type of text to create data for evaluation and for use in practice and offer advice on best practices and lessons learned.
Watch Past Webinar Recordings
Structural Racism and Racial Equity Legal Data
November 14, 2024, at noon ET | WATCH RECORDING
Coding Case Law
June 11, 2024, at noon ET | WATCH RECORDING
New Legal Epidemiology Resources
April 4, 2024, noon ET | WATCH RECORDING | SLIDES
Legal Data for Drug Policy
February 15, 2024, noon ET | WACTH RECORDING | SLIDES
Local Policy Surveillance
August 8, 2023, 12:00 p.m. ET | WATCH RECORDING
Let’s Talk MonQcle!
April 11, 2023, 12:00 pm ET | WATCH RECORDING | SLIDES
Capturing a Rapidly Changing Landscape Using Sentinel Surveillance
February 14, 2023, 12:00 pm ET | WATCH RECORDING | SLIDES
Past Introductory and Advanced Policy Surveillance Training Webinars
Recordings from the fall 2019 webinar series are now available. You can access the full playlist here on YouTube, or watch the recordings individually:
- Policy Surveillance Introductory Training
- Advanced Policy Surveillance Training Webinar Part 1, Scoping and Background Research
- Advanced Policy Surveillance Training Webinar Part 2, Question Development
- Advanced Policy Surveillance Training Webinar Part 3, Collecting and Building the Law
- Advanced Policy Surveillance Training Webinar Part 4, Coding the Law
- Advanced Policy Surveillance Training Webinar Part 5, Quality Control, Publication and Updating Datasets