The third and final phase of the legal epi process, Analyzing, is about understanding what your results mean and sharing them in ways that can guide policy and practice. Use the community power building questions below to think through how you will disseminate the results with community and your partners and continue relationship building.
Legal Epidemiology
Your objectives:
- Engage appropriate partners and impacted communities in making sense of the findings and discussing their meaning.
- Turn the findings into practical lessons, tools, or recommendations that can be applied in real-world settings.
- Share your findings in the right format for the right audience: policymakers, advocates, practitioners, or the public.
*See examples of many of the steps above in the resources section
Community Power Building
For each step in Phase 3, how can you:
Act Collectively
- Key Question: Where can community own and influence the translation phase?
- Who are we engaging to interpret data and make meaning of it?
- How can the dissemination plan and related documents or resources be co-created with community?
Shift Narratives
- Key Question: How can community own and share the emerging narratives?
- Where do findings align with or diverge from our emerging narratives (and those held by community and partners), and how can those differences be explored?
- Who holds influential narratives that might be shifted by this analysis, and how should they be engaged?
Engage Communities Authentically
- Key Question: How can results translate into meaningful, community-held practice?
- What is the community benefit of this analysis?
- How do we inform a wide range of stakeholders using culturally responsive mechanisms?
Cultivate relationships
- Key Question: How are we engaging partners and how can we create shared accountability for long-term partnership and action?
- How do we ensure relationships continue beyond the project and build on trust developed during the process?
