Urban Institute-Georgetown Law Project on Health Equity and the Law
Efforts to reduce widespread disparities in health and medical care face unprecedented legal challenges.
Recent court rulings, executive orders, and regulatory developments threaten the progress that’s been achieved. Yet possibilities for advancing health equity abound at all levels of government.
To this end, the Urban Institute and Georgetown Law have launched an initiative to develop strategies for reducing racial and ethnic disparities in diagnosis and treatment, empowering medical institutions to address social determinants of health, and incorporating health into economic and environmental policy.
Research Directions
We aim to provide policy-makers, lawyers and judges, health-system leaders, clinicians, and community representatives with data and analysis they’ll need to take the initiative. Current research foci include:
- Rewards to medical care providers for improving marginalized patients’ quality of care and addressing health-harming life circumstances
- Approaches to increasing clinical-caregiver diversity
- Inclusion of health concerns in policy formulation in the realms of urban planning, juvenile justice, and treatment of immigrants to the U.S.
- The phenomenon of legally unnecessary “over-compliance,” out of fear, with calls to step back from commitments to health equity and inclusion
Urban Institute-Georgetown Law Leadership Team
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Project Codirector | Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Health Law, Policy, and Ethics, Georgetown Law
Gregg Bloche
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Associate Professor & Director of the Health Justice Alliance Law Clinic, Georgetown University Law Center
Yael Cannon
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Consultant | Primary Care Pediatrician and Professor of Pediatrics at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville and Prisma Health Children’s Hospital Upstate
Julie M. Linton
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Advisory Committee
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Carl Iver Hovland Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Public Health, Yale University
John Dovidio
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Senior Director of Workforce Diversity in Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Association of American Medical Colleges
Norma Poll-Hunter
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Emeritus Professor of Health Law and Policy, George Washington University School of Public Health
Sara Rosenbaum
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Associate Dean for Admissions, The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Demicha Rankin
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