Event
Health and Civil Justice: Innovative Partnerships Between Medicine and the Law
Dec 8, 2020
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Online
The high incidence of socially determined health issues鈥攄ue to employment or benefits issues, substandard housing, domestic violence, and a range of other problems鈥攕uggests that legal help could make a notable difference in addressing health-related problems. This discussion, based on the American Academy鈥檚 new report, Civil Justice for All, examined the relationship between health and civil justice, paying special attention to recent innovations in Medical-Legal Partnerships.
Featuring
Jay Chaudhary
Director, Indiana Division of Mental Health and Addiction
Indiana Family and Social Services Administration
Bethany Hamilton
Director, National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership, Department of Health Policy and Management
The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health
Sharad Kohli
Clinician
People鈥檚 Community Clinic, Austin, TX
Keegan Warren-Clem
Managing Attorney, TLSC Medical-Legal Partnerships
Adjunct Professor of Health Law
The University of Texas
Videos
The Civil Justice Gap