Helpful legal epidemiology readings, training, and resources  

Software for Legal Mapping 

MonQcle Software – Access our software to identify, code, and analyze laws and policies, then visualize, share, and update their findings all in one place. Contact [click-for-email] to get started. 

Technical Assistance 

Our team is available to offer guidance, provide materials and templates, and host remote or in-person training and workshops. Contact [click-for-email] to start a conversation about your program’s needs. 

Legal Epi Training and Instruction 

• Policy Surveillance Institute – CPHLR's annual two-day, in-person workshop teaching scientific legal mapping methods like policy surveillance. This is our most comprehensive training on scientific legal mapping each year. Our next Institute is August 6-7, 2026. Registration is open now!
• CPHLR Global Certificate in Legal Epidemiology – three, self-paced modules (about 16 hours of instruction) teaching public health law, policy surveillance, and an introduction to evaluation 
• Training webinars – Attend a free CPHLR-hosted webinar providing an introduction to policy surveillance or advanced methods or issues in legal epidemiology.
• Policy Surveillance Self-Guided Training – Eight free, self-guided modules introducing each step of the policy surveillance process. 

Additional Reading and Resources 

Five Essential Public Health Law Services and Public Health Law 

• The New Public Health Law, Second Edition (use code ALAUTHC4 for 30% discount at Oxford University Press)  
• Better Health Faster: The Five Essential Public Health Law Services  

Policy Surveillance and Scientific Legal Mapping 

• Coding Case Law for Public Health Law Evaluation  
• Measuring Statutory Law and Regulations for Empirical Research  
• Sentinel Surveillance of Emerging Laws and Policies  
• Improving the Transparency of Legal Measurement in Health Policy Evaluation—A Guide for Researchers, Reviewers, and Editors  

Ratings and Rankings 

• Assessing Policy Impacts on Chronic Disease Risk Reduction: The Science and Art of Policy Rating Systems 

Public Health Law Evaluations 

• Legal Epidemiology: Theory and Methods, second edition (use code PSY20 for 20% discount at Wiley) (Note: many of the chapters from this textbook are included in the CPHLR Theory and Methods Literature library)  
• Natural Experiments: Design Elements for Optimal Causal Inference Without Randomization  
• Randomized Trials in Legal Epidemiology