How Do We Know If Laws Make Us Healthier?
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CAPS Fall Conference Keynote Discussion
How Do We Know If Laws Make Us Healthier? A keynote debate on measuring the effects of state policy.
Keynote Speakers
Scott Burris
Professor of Law and Public Heath, Temple University
Bio: Burris studies how law shapes public health and which legal changes make people healthier. He founded the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Public Health Law Research Program in 2009 and has authored more than 200 publications.
Jennifer Karas Montez
University Professor, Department of Sociology, Syracuse University
Bio: Montez's research investigates the troubling trends in population health in the United States since the 1980s and the growing influence of state policies and politics on those trends. She is president of the interdisciplinary Association for Population Health Science and incoming editor-in-chief of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
Category
Research Support
Type
Conferences
Region
In-Person
Open to
Faculty and Staff
Graduate Students
Organizer
Aging Studies Institute
Accessibility
Contact Katherine Hills to request accommodations
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