Worker Protections, Civil Rights, and Health Equity: Understanding Challenges and Advancing Justice

Urban Institute—Georgetown Law Series on Health Justice Presents: Worker Protections, Civil Rights, and Health Equity: Understanding Challenges and Advancing Justice

Research shows that employment conditions, including those shaped by civil rights and labor protections, are critical determinants of health and health equity. People of color and immigrants are disproportionately overrepresented in lowest-paid work and often lack access to workplace protections, which has been associated with negative physical and mental health outcomes. Federal and state policymakers, however, are reconsidering labor and civil rights protections in ways that could weaken worker safety and widen health disparities.

Join experts across civil rights and health equity to examine current challenges, highlight emerging strategies and lessons amid a rapidly evolving legal/political landscape, and discuss how interdisciplinary approaches can protect our communities and advance health justice.

Moderated By:
Prashasti Bhatnagar, Law Fellow, Urban Institute-Georgetown Law Project on Health Equity and the Law

Introductory Remarks By:
Brian Smedley,
Senior Fellow, Health Policy Center, Urban Institute

Rev. Shavon Arline-Bradley, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Council of Negro Women

Damon Hewitt, President and Executive Director, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Thomas Saenz, President and General Counsel, MALDEF

Ruqaiijah Yearby, Judge Clifford Scott Green Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law

All questions and accommodation requests can be made at lawrsvp@georgetown.edu(This link opens in a new tab) by Wednesday, November 19th.