This page highlights resources to support your efforts to engage in Community-Centered Legal Epidemiology. Resources are organized by the legal epidemiology phases in the Practitioner Guide – Getting Ready for Legal Epidemiology, Phase 1: Planning, Phase 2: Operationalization, and Phase 3: Analyze and Disseminate. If you have a resource that you would like to share, please use the Contact Us form.
Introduction Resources for Getting Ready for Community-Centered Legal Epi
Legal Epidemiology
- What is Legal Epidemiology?, The Center for Public Health Law Research, Temple University
- Learn Legal Epidemiology, The Center for Public Health Law Research, Temple University
Deepen root cause analysis of law, policy, or practice
- Micro-Toolkit: Equity Assessment Framework for Public Health Laws and Policies, The Network for Public Health Law
- Foundations of Community Engagement Toolkit, Health Resources in Action
- “5 Whys” exercise (Module 4: Applications for Community Engagement)
- Racial Justice Reframing Tool and Reflection Questions (Module 4: Applications for Community Engagement)
- View a completed example on pages 13-16 of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Racial Equity Data Road Map
Narrative change strategies and building narrative power
- Building Narrative Power, Narratives for Health, County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
- Narrative Change: Starting Strategically, Frameworks Institute
Identifying partners and power mapping
- Micro-Toolkit: Equity Assessment Framework for Public Health Laws and Policies, The Network for Public Health Law
- Foundations of Community Engagement Toolkit, Health Resources in Action
- Community Engagement Spectrum Worksheet and Reflection Questions (Module 2: Examining our Mental Models)
- Power Mapping Activity (Module 3: Building Community Power)
- POWER Playbook
- Union of Concerned Scientists, Power Mapping Your Way to Success
- CivicWell, Participation Tools for Better Community Planning
Phase 1 Resources
Question Development Table
Phase 2 Resources
Legal Epidemiology Data
- LawAtlas Public Health Law Datasets: High quality, open source legal data
Examples of how to combine the coded legal data with health or outcome data:
- Rochester’s Lead Law: Evaluation of a Local Environmental Health Policy Innovation
- Public Health and Law Collaboration: The Philadelphia Lead Court Study
- Associations Between Antibullying Policies and Bullying in 25 States, Mark L. Hatzenbuehler et al.
Community-Engaged and Participatory Methods
- Community-Engaged Methods Model, Urban Institute
- Community-Engaged and Participatory Methods Toolkits
Examples of Community Engaged Data Collection in Legal Epidemiology
Phase 3 Resources
Examples of impactful legal epidemiology dissemination approaches
- First Candle Let’s Talk
- University of California, Irvine: Invisibility is Killing Us
- Suicide Prevention Offices and Committees Legal Map
- Journal of Public Health Management & Practice Supplement: Advancing Legal Epidemiology
- Novice Driver Licensing Laws Data
Community-Centered Dissemination
