Legal Epidemiology Satellite Conference at 2021 Law Enforcement in Public Health Conference

2021年公共卫生执法大会法律流行病学卫星会议

• 批准号: 2029992
• 负责人: Scott Burris
• 金额: $ 4.57万
• 依托单位: Temple University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-11-01 至 2021-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2029992&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Legal; Epidemiology; Satellite; Conference; 2021

Law enforcement and public health (LEPH)are historically distinct domains. Law enforcement has been tied primarily to public order and criminal investigations, while public health’s focus is most closely aligned with establishing conditions most conducive to health. In spite of that, the fields share much common ground, with the central objective of both being the preservation of human well-being through the regulation of behavior toward safety and security. Research on effectiveness and impact of interventions can and should be an indispensable guide to practice and policy-making. Past annual LEPH conferences hosted by the Global Law Enforcement and Public Health Association have included robust participation from researchers as well as practitioners. The conference in March 2021 and this proposed satellite offer a much-needed opportunity to engage more researchers in the dissemination of high quality research on the effects of law on public health (legal epidemiology). Linking this proposed satellite with the regular conference will give more researchers the opportunity to interact with the views, challenges and innovations of the practitioners they study. And, deliberately incorporating legal epidemiology methods and research into the LEPH conference exposes a greater, new audience of scholars and practitioners to the methods and their applications, and supports further integral connection between the disciplines. The satellite meeting provides an opportunity for researchers in criminology, public health and law, and society research to articulate a collaborative agenda, including important research questions and the development of shared, formalized metrics. The meeting will have four areas of inquiry: 1) measuring the effects of criminal law and law enforcement on the social determinants of health; 2) developing shared metrics to inform LEPH strategy and practice; 3) understanding people’s experiences of laws and legal practices and their effects on health; and 4) identifying the role of health law in promoting first responder health and wellness. The satellite also has broad-reaching impact by generating increased scientific literacy in the area of legal epidemiology among practitioners working at the interface of LEPH, and among junior scholars. For the research community, the satellite will advance translational research at the interface of law enforcement and public health, illustrating the value of legal epidemiology in bridging theories and methods across the two fields. It will advance scientific knowledge of the complex relationships between law, law enforcement and public health, and it will help make the case for an enhanced infrastructure for inter-disciplinary, cross-sector research on law and its various influences on the public's health. For the policy community, it will highlight areas of law-making and law enforcement that can be actionable targets of innovation and reform, in furtherance of public health. It will illuminate direct and indirect ways in which laws and law enforcement practices reinforce or exacerbate disparities in health.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

执法和公共卫生（LEPH）是历史上不同的领域。执法主要与公共秩序和刑事调查有关，而公共卫生的重点则与创造最有利于健康的条件最为密切相关。尽管如此，这两个领域有许多共同点，其中心目标都是通过对安全和保障行为的监管来保护人类福祉。对干预措施的有效性和影响进行研究可以而且应该成为实践和决策的不可或缺的指南。由全球执法和公共卫生协会主办的过去年度LEPH会议包括研究人员和从业人员的积极参与。2021年3月的会议和拟议的卫星提供了一个急需的机会，让更多的研究人员参与传播关于法律对公共卫生影响的高质量研究（法律的流行病学）。将这一拟议卫星与常会联系起来，将使更多的研究人员有机会与他们所研究的从业人员的观点、挑战和创新进行互动。而且，故意将法律的流行病学方法和研究纳入LEPH会议，使更多的学者和从业人员了解这些方法及其应用，并支持学科之间的进一步整合。卫星会议为犯罪学，公共卫生和法律以及社会研究的研究人员提供了一个机会，以阐明一个合作议程，包括重要的研究问题和制定共享的正式指标。会议将有四个调查领域：1）衡量刑法和执法对健康的社会决定因素的影响; 2）制定共享指标，为LEPH战略和实践提供信息; 3）了解人们对法律和法律的实践及其对健康的影响的经验;以及4）确定卫生法在促进第一反应者健康和健康方面的作用。该卫星还产生了广泛的影响，提高了在LEPH接口工作的从业人员和初级学者在法律的流行病学领域的科学素养。对于研究界来说，该卫星将推进执法和公共卫生界面的转化研究，说明法律的流行病学在弥合这两个领域的理论和方法方面的价值。它将促进对法律、执法和公共卫生之间复杂关系的科学认识，并将有助于加强对法律及其对公众健康的各种影响进行跨学科、跨部门研究的基础设施。对于政策界来说，它将突出立法和执法领域，这些领域可以成为创新和改革的可操作目标，以促进公共卫生。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。