Stigma is a fundamental cause of disease that reflects and intensifies health inequalities. Laws are powerful mediators for stigma; to correct them, it is critical to know which laws promote stigma. To that end, researchers have been working to apply legal measurement methods to laws that promote and perpetuate stigma.
In this webinar, the researchers will share ground-breaking work to map addiction stigma-promoting and stigma-inhibiting laws in California at state, county, and municipal levels. It will describe the conceptual process, steps, and methods used to map law and policy and discuss how to identify outcomes that may be associated with variation in state-level policies and ways to leverage secondary data for analysis.
The Legal Epi at Lunch Webinar Series focuses on exploring methodological issues or approaches in scientific legal mapping and legal epidemiology research. Each session includes expert staff from the Center for Public Health Law Research and guest researchers and practitioners using legal epidemiology methods in a unique or innovative way and will offer best practices, technology solutions, tips, and tricks for attendees.
Featuring:
- Daniel S. Goldberg, JD, PhD, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
- Kelly DeBie, JD, PhD(c), Colorado State University
- Scott Burris, JD, Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research (moderator)