Legal epidemiology and the future of policy evaluation research

We are glad to share the next lecture in our LEVIATHAN Lecture Series, organized by the Center for Ethics and Law in Biomedicine at Central European University Vienna/Budapest.

Scott Burris, J.D., is a Professor of Law at Temple University, School of Law, where he directs the Center for Public Health Law Research. He is also a Professor in Temple’s School of Public Health.

He is the author of over 200 books, book chapters, articles and reports on issues including urban health; discrimination against people with HIV and other disabilities; HIV policy; research ethics; and the health effects of criminal law and drug policy. He has been particularly interested in developing theory and methods aimed at promoting effective local health governance.

He has served as a consultant to numerous United States and international organizations, including the United Nations Development Programme, the World Health Organization, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, the Institute of Medicine and to the producers of the Oscar-winning film Philadelphia. He is a founder of Legal Science, LLC, a private company dedicated to the social mission of improving access to legal information and the supporting of the practice of policy surveillance.

Introduction by: Judit Sándor

Discussant: Márton Varju

This lecture is part of the LEVIATHAN project, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant agreement No. 854503).

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