Our Academic Medical-Legal Partnership is training the next generation of health, law, and policy leaders to work together in pursuit of health justice as they serve some of the most vulnerable members of our D.C. community.
Why? Because in America, your zip code is more relevant than your genetic code in predicting the length and quality of your life.
Daily challenges like food insecurity, poor housing conditions, lack of insurance, family instability, problems with education or employment, and other issues can become “health-harming legal needs” that require legal advocacy partnered with medical care to overcome.
Welcome to the Georgetown University Health Justice Alliance (HJA) FY25 Annual Report. The report describes many of the HJA’s efforts during FY25 to expand our educational reach and to deepen our student engagement. It also highlights the ways in which we continue to improve our services, advance our research agenda, and build Georgetown’s reputation as an academic leader in the national medical-legal partnership (MLP) movement.
