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Throughout 2023, ChangeLab Solutions and OPHLS coordinated training sessions and provided technical assistance to seven Learning Cohort teams across the country. This paper provides an overview of the Learning Cohort\u2019s background, approach, and lessons learned. It also spotlights three recent Learning Cohort teams who describe the projects they completed and the benefits and challenges they found in learning foundational legal epidemiology methods for their public health work. Featured projects demonstrate how legal epidemiology can be used to examine topics like water safety, Tribal access to public health data, and the intersection of state and local law.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1017\/jme.2026.10286","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,12]],"date-time":"2026-10-12T06:35:32Z","timestamp":1791786932000},"page":"1-9","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The Legal Epidemiology Learning Cohort: Reflections and Spotlights After a Decade of Practice-Based Legal Epidemiology Training"],"prefix":"10.1017","author":[{"given":"Katie Hannon","family":"Michel","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/01628rf48","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"ChangeLab Solutions"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0539-8332","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Samantha Bent","family":"Weber","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/01pbhra64","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Community Health & Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0003-0220-4779","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Jami","family":"Crespo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/01628rf48","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"ChangeLab Solutions"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Madeline","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/002w9k038","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Brooklyn Law School"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lauren","family":"Tonti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/02ymw8z06","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"University of Missouri College of Arts and Science"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Vicki","family":"Collie-Akers","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/036c9yv20","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"The University of Kansas Medical Center"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7810-0114","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Colin","family":"Gerber","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/03ax9j741","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Sunbal","family":"Virk","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/03ax9j741","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Taylor","family":"Pinsent","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/03ax9j741","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Lyndsey","family":"Blair","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/04p81nz21","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Bellarmine University"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Diana","family":"Leathers","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Lincoln Trail District Health Department"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Elizabeth","family":"Tennison","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Lincoln Trail District Health Department"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Matthew","family":"Penn","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"id":[{"id":"https:\/\/ror.org\/042twtr12","id-type":"ROR","asserted-by":"publisher"}],"name":"Centers for Disease Control and Prevention"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,12]]},"reference":[{"key":"S1073110526102861_r7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.2105\/AJPH.2017.303823"},{"key":"S1073110526102861_r32","unstructured":"32. \u201cPrivate Drinking Water Wells,\u201d Environmental Protection Agency, https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/privatewells (last visited July 1, 2024); \u201cWell Water Information,\u201d Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet, https:\/\/eec.ky.gov\/Environmental-Protection\/Water\/GW\/Pages\/GWOwnerAssist.aspx (last visited December 16, 2025)."},{"key":"S1073110526102861_r15","unstructured":"15. 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