Lindsay K. Cloud, JD, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Health Services Administration and Policy at Temple University’s Barnett College of Public Health, assistant professor (by courtesy) of law at Temple University Beasley School of Law, and the deputy director of the Center for Public Health Law Research. Her work examines the intersection of law and public health outcomes, with a focus on injury and violence prevention.

Dr. Cloud has more than 13 years of experience leading and contributing to large-scale, multidisciplinary research projects using legal epidemiology to examine how laws and policies influence population health across national, state, local, and international contexts. Her current research uses mixed-methods approaches to examine the impact of civil protection orders that restrict firearm purchase and possession by intimate partner violence perpetrators on firearm-related morbidity and mortality in the United States. Her broader scholarship spans reproductive health, substance use disorder, income security, preemption, civil commitment, intimate partner violence, and firearm policy. Her work has been published in the Journal of Family Violence, Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, and the American Journal of Public Health, and is supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Since joining Temple University in 2013, she has developed tools and methods for scientific legal mapping, led multidisciplinary research studies, and trained government agencies, researchers, advocates, and practitioners in legal epidemiology, emphasizing the use of law and policy as an evidence-based tool for public health. Dr. Cloud has contributed to major legal data infrastructure initiatives, including LawAtlas, the Prescription Drug Abuse Policy System, and MonQcle.

She is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.