CPHLR Policy Surveillance Program

This channel includes videos from the Policy Surveillance Program at Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research (CPHLR), which is dedicated to increasing the use of scientific legal mapping as a tool for improving the nation’s health. 

Policy surveillance is the systematic, scientific collection and analysis of laws of public health significance. It is a form of legal mapping that creates data suitable for use in rigorous evaluation studies. Policy surveillance addresses the chronic lack of readily accessible, nonpartisan information about status and trends in health legislation and policy, it provides the opportunity to build policy capacity in the public health workforce, and it can speed the diffusion of innovation.

The Center for Public Health Law Research supports the widespread adoption of scientific tools and methods for mapping and evaluating the impact of law on health.