1. The Policy Surveillance Program: A LawAtlas Project Who we are November 2015

2. Our Mission Increase the use of policy surveillance and legal mapping to build the evidence base for laws that improve population health Teach policy surveillance methods to individuals and organizations Freely share policy surveillance methods, tools, related resources and empirical legal data Build a trans-disciplinary community of individuals interested in laws that impact health

3. Program History 2009 The Public Health Law Research (PHLR) program is launched with a grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) 2011 The LawAtlas Policy Surveillance Portal is created by the PHLR team. It provides a platform for the systematic collection, measurement and display of local, state, and national law. 2015 The Policy Surveillance Program is founded with a three-year grant from RWJF

4. LawAtlas.org LawAtlas.org is the central place for creating, sharing, and accessing authoritative health policy surveillance and related resources. Learn policy surveillance methods Access empirical legal data Learn more about public health laws and policies through related resources

5. The Workbench The Workbench is a tool that can be used to conduct policy surveillance

6. Teaching and Learning Tools and resources in the Learning Library support researchers conducting policy surveillance and other legal mapping projects The Learning Library includes: –PowerPoint tutorials explaining how to perform each step of the policy surveillance process –Helpful templates used while conducting policy surveillance –Related resources and examples that provide additional information on policy surveillance