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The purpose of the PHLR program is to encourage more rigorous empirical research in public health law. That requires building up a field that is based on publication and scholarly interchange and additional mechanisms in scholarly interchange. At the same time, the evidence has to have a policy impact; therefore the law review article, the social science journal article or the medical journal article cannot be the end product. The results of the proposal must be tailored to different audiences that can use the findings in important ways. The project would need to be addressing something new; such as a new advance or a new application of the material to rigorous scientific research. Also, if it is purely doctrinal analysis, there is a heavy burden to show that it is illuminating in some important way how public health is affected by law. The applicant should tie the legal analysis to the analysis of the data and a logic model to highlight where the presence or absence of law, at least in terms of the existing knowledge, could be an important factor in public health.

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No, although existing data can certainly speed up the process, it is not part of the program's selection criteria.

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This question needs to be examined individually for each proposal. The work has to be a novel examination of how law has had an effect on population health. However, for each study, PHLR also wants to see that the correct methodology for data collection and data analysis are applied.

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Neither the Foundation nor the NPO has a cap on salary support. Applicants need to commit enough time to do the project specified. That may mean needing several people or that people are committing a large percentage of their time to the project. It is important to demonstrate that the investigator has the time to commit to the project and to appropriately address the questions that are being posed.