About our work
The LRC supports development and implementation of laws and policies that improve public health and address health inequities by helping researchers, policymakers, and advocates create the evidence base for such efforts. Legal epidemiology is a transdisciplinary research model that blends scientific methods and traditional legal research and analysis. It is a powerful tool for enabling outcomes research on the efficacy of specific legal interventions and the impact of laws and legal practices on health outcomes. LRC’s legal epidemiologists routinely conduct and support legal mapping studies to identify, characterize, and compare public health laws across jurisdictions to facilitate outcomes and policy evaluation research, as well as evidence-based policymaking and advocacy. LRC produces 50-state surveys of laws, environmental scans, and legislative and regulatory datasets.