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Teaching the Future: Legal Epidemiology as a Model for Transdisciplinary Education

The field of public health law may be said to be in a renaissance, one that has arguably spanned the last 25 years. The last 2 decades have seen the rapid growth of the field across many dimensions. The growth of public health law spans at least 3 interconnected and mutually reinforcing areas: expansions in professional identification, institutional capacity, and conceptual development. These developments create an important opportunity to reinvigorate and expand the incorporation of public health law into education programs and curricula. First, public health law has become a recognized specialty area within the professions of law and public health. Increasing numbers of professionals have bridged the historical divide between these 2 fields, aided in part by the growth of joint degree programs that combine Juris Doctor and Masters in Public Health degrees. The expansion of practitioners trained in both law and public health allows organizations, agencies, institutions, and populations served by these dually-trained professionals to benefit from the unique transdisciplinary perspective that public health law expertise offers. Second, the burgeoning public health law workforce has augmented the institutional capacity for public health law practice, within both governmental agencies and nongovernmental institutions. Some government agencies have recognized the importance of instantiating legal expertise in public health departments. State and local public health agencies have added lawyers to their staffs and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Public Health Law Program has performed robust programmatic and scholarly work on public health law. Outside of government, a growing cohort of nonprofit organizations, policy think tanks, foundations, and academic