Course Purpose: Law affects healthcare in multiple and complex ways. Yet few health services researchers understand basic health law concepts, and even fewer have been exposed to legal research training. This two-day workshop is designed to introduce health services researchers to the role of law in health policy-related health services research providing participants with the essential tools needed to understand the major domains and themes of health law. Leading United States Supreme Court decisions will be analyzed, along with important trends emerging in the state courts.

What You'll Learn:

• The concepts and principles of law and the legal process;
• The role of Constitutions, statutes, administrative regulation and judge-made law in the legal framework for health policy;
• How courts balance stakeholder interests in resolving major disputes; and
• How research models that combine legal expertise with health services research methods can measure the impact of law on health and healthcare.

* Certificates of completion will be provided