Epidemiology in the Legal Arena and the Search for Truth1

Arthur H. Bryant1 and Alexander Reinert2

1 Executive Director of Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, a national public interest law firm with offices in Washington, DC and Oakland, CA.
2 Received J.D. in 1999 from New York University School of Law, and received B.A. in Human Biology and American Civilization from Brown University in 1994.

NOTES

This paper is an abridged version of a presentation delivered at "From Epidemiology to Policy: a Symposium on the Translation of Epidemiologic Evidence into Public Health Policy" on July 19, 1998. The symposium was jointly sponsored by the Center for Epidemiology and Policy and the Risk Sciences and Public Policy Institute of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the American College of Preventive Medicine. Some citations have been updated to reflect legal developments since the paper was delivered. For a copy of the original paper, and for reprints of this article, please contact Arthur Bryant at Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Ordway Building, One Kaiser Plaza, Suite 275, Oakland, CA 94612–3684.

Received for publication October 12, 2000. Accepted for publication May 21, 2001.





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