Acknowledgements
We are grateful for the immense thought leadership, resources, support, and engagement that has made this Community Centered Legal Epidemiology toolkit possible.
This project is supported by the Office of Minority Health, of the Department of Health and Human Services, through Award # 1 CPIMP211304-01-00. The contents are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by OMH/OASH/HHS or the US government.
The authors – from the National Network of Public Health Institutes, Health Resources in Action, The Dawn Lab, and Temple University’s Center for Public Health Research – want to acknowledge the critical thought leadership and contributions of the original Office of Minority Health funded Demonstration Sites and the communities they partnered with – Baltimore City Health Department, The Center for Black Health & Equity, the Illinois Association for Behavioral Health, Morehouse School of Medicine and the City of East Point, Georgia, Native American Development Corporation, and the University of California, Irvine, Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health.
Their steadfast commitment to centering and advancing their communities’ priorities in their projects, while integrating the rigor of legal epidemiology, forced us to collectively ask: ” How can the field of legal epidemiology be strengthened by authentic community engagement?” This collaborative push catalyzed the development of the Community-Centered Legal Epidemiology Crosswalk. We are grateful for the ways the demonstration sites maintained that the process of aligning legal epidemiology with authentic community engagement can be both relational, scientifically rigorous, and robust to ensure that our understanding of the laws we study is based on the lived experience of those impacted by them in pursuit of improving health for all.
