The Policy Surveillance Program: A LawAtlas Project

Who we are

November 2015

Our Mission

Increase the use of policy surveillance and legal mapping to build the evidence base for laws

that improve population health

Teach policy surveillance methods to individuals and organizations

Freely share policy surveillance methods, tools, related resources and empirical legal data

Build a trans-disciplinary community of individuals interested in laws that impact health

Program History

2009

The Public Health Law Research (PHLR)

program is launched with a grant from the Robert

Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)

2011

The LawAtlas Policy Surveillance Portal is created by the PHLR team. It provides a platform for the systematic collection, measurement and

display of local, state, and national law.

2015

The Policy Surveillance

Program is founded with a three-year grant from RWJF

LawAtlas.org

LawAtlas.org is the central place for creating, sharing, and accessing

authoritative health policy surveillance and related resources.

Learn policy surveillance methods

Access empirical legal data

Learn more about public health laws and

policies through related resources

The Workbench

The Workbench is a tool that can be used to conduct policy surveillance

Teaching and Learning

• Tools and resources in the Learning Library support researchers conducting policy surveillance and other legal mapping projects

• The Learning Library includes:– PowerPoint tutorials explaining how to perform each

step of the policy surveillance process– Helpful templates used while conducting policy

surveillance– Related resources and examples that provide

additional information on policy surveillance