Policy Analysis
The CDM Policy and Program team combines legal, social science, service systems, clinical, and law enforcement expertise to offer interdisciplinary policy analysis and assessment across a wide range of health and human services areas. Seasoned researchers and scholars provide rapid-turnaround analysis of health and human service-related topics and use well-tested procedures for combining social science and legal policy analysis.
What We Do
- Integrate legal, social science, service systems, clinical, and law enforcement perspectives to develop frameworks, variables, and hypotheses for policy analysis and policy outcomes research
- Rapidly collect, analyze, and synthesize policy data from published literature, focus groups, experts, survey research, secondary data analysis, and searches of enacted and codified laws and regulations
- Test policy-related hypotheses through quantitative, econometric, qualitative, organizational, and legal analysis
- Organize complex policy information in user-searchable databases with flexible report capabilities
- Prepare papers, publications, and briefings on a variety of health and human services policy topics