The LRC provides technical legal assistance to state and local public health officials and legislators, federal agencies, national organizations, and others across the country. While the LRC's primary focus is on critical issues in the regulation of tobacco, cannabis, gambling, school health, and injury prevention; the LRC also has extensive expertise in legal epidemiology, helping researchers, policymakers, and advocates identify and demonstrate the ways that law can (and does) serve as both a cause and a powerful solution to most public health problems.
Center Activities
Tobacco
Learn MoreProviding legal technical assistance on tobacco law and policy issues to legislators, government agencies, community organizations, and Maryland residents.
Cannabis
Learn MoreHelping Maryland understand and address the public health issues associated with cannabis legalization.
Gambling
Learn MoreHelping policymakers, advocates, and regulators understand and develop laws and policies that mitigate negative impacts of gambling on public health.
Injury Prevention
Learn MoreProviding research and legal technical assistance to researchers, policymakers, and advocates on understanding, developing, and implementing laws that prevent injury and injury-related morbidity and death across the lifespan.
School Health
Learn MoreProviding research and legal technical assistance to researchers, policymakers, and advocates across the country on understanding, developing, and implementing laws to improve school health and wellness.
Legal Epidemiology
Learn MoreHelping researchers, advocates, and policymakers understand and demonstrate the impact of law as a social determinant of health.
Public Health Law Clinic
With attorneys in the LRC, law students in the Public Health Law Clinic learn to practice public health law by engaging in the work of the LRC.

Upcoming Events
Tobacco
- 9th Annual Tobacco Control Conference
Cannabis
- None at this time.
Gambling
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