The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the Center for Public Health Law Research (CPHLR) at the Temple University Beasley School of Law with the College of Public Health have been selected as a recipient under the National Center for STLT Public Health Infrastructure and Workforce Opportunity – Strengthening Public Health Impact, Systems and Services through National Partnerships to Improve and Protect the Nation’s Health (Notice of Funding Opportunity CDC-RFA-PW-24-0080).
The recipients will use their expertise in legal epidemiology, policy evaluation, teaching, and training to build capacity among transdisciplinary teams of legal epidemiologists within state, local, tribal, and territorial health departments to better understand the impact of law on population health. The purpose of this project is to improve the overall capacity and performance of the public health system by serving legal epidemiologists who can promote and support the effective use of laws and policies to reduce health disparities in the populations they serve.