Lawyer Education Program

This three-and-a-half hour interactive course will cover the socio-ecological model of health, constrained choice theory, and population health. The course will also illustrate the connections between the SDOH and explore their importance to legal issues that arise in child welfare and juvenile law cases in Massachusetts. The course will also discuss the terminology and methodology that epidemiologists and other public health researchers use to understand how the SDOH impact health, and discuss how lawyers can raise issues related to the SDOH in child welfare and juvenile law cases.