This self-guided, video-based course contains eight training modules that teach skills and competencies needed to complete policy surveillance and scientific legal mapping projects. The modules include detailed instructions on each of the steps in the process, as well as slide decks and links to tools and resources.
The Center’s free webinar series introduce introductory and advanced 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 varying uses for the legal data.
The annual Policy Surveillance Institute is a three-day intensive program intended for individuals interested in learning each step in the policy surveillance process with live, in-depth training from experts from the Center for Public Health Law Research on policy surveillance software and through collaborative exercises.
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Policy surveillance data are perfect for evaluating the effects of laws and policies on health. The Center for Public Health Law Research offers for-credit and continuing education courses and certificates that provide foundational training in legal epidemiology and public health law.