Resources

Web Events

Equal Protection and the Future of the Physician Workforce

Speakers: David Acosta (Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, American Association of Medical Colleges); Demicha Rankin (Associate Dean for Admissions, The Ohio State University College of Medicine); Brian Smedley (Senior Fellow, Urban Institute); Ruqaiijah Yearby (Kara J. Trott Professor in Health Law, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University); Gregg Bloche (Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Health Law, Policy, and Ethics, Georgetown Law, Moderator)

View video of Equal Protection event.

Downsizing Medicaid: How Proposed Cuts Could Endanger Health Insurance for Low-Income Americans

Speakers: Nathan Chomilo (Medical Director, Minnesota Medicaid and MinnesotaCare); Genevieve Kenney (Institute Fellow, Urban Institute); Edwin Park (Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University); Sara Rosenbaum (Emeritus Professor of Health Law and Policy, George Washington University School of Public Health); Brian Smedley (Senior Fellow, Urban Institute); Gregg Bloche (Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Health Law, Policy, & Ethics, Georgetown Law, Moderator)

View video of Downsizing Medicaid event.

Health Care Institutions, Hippocratic Duty, and Immigration Enforcement

Speakers: Julie Linton (Committee on Federal Government Affairs, American Academy of Pediatrics); Thomas Saenz (President & General Counsel, MALDEFs); Altaf Saadi (Assistant Prof of Neurology, Harvard Medical School); Matt Lopas (Director of State Advocacy, National Immigration Law Center); Gregg Bloche (Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Health Law, Policy, & Ethics, Georgetown Law, Moderator)

Julie M. Linton, Jenny Rejeske, & Gabrielle Lessard, Health Care Institutions And Immigration Enforcement: An Ethical Imperative

Dulce Gonzalez, Taylor Nelson, & Brian Smedley, Racially Minoritized Patients Can Benefit from Racially Concordant Providers but Struggle to Find Them

Topics

Health Care Disparities: Causes & Remedies

Testimony of Julie Linton, Testimony before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee (addressing impact of family separation on child health and well being)

Gregg Bloche, Ethics and Health Systems Change: Introduction

Brian Smedley, Could a Decline in Medical School Students of Color Affect Americans’ Health Outcomes?

Lisa A. Cooper, Christina Vincent & Kareem Crayton, JD, Enhancing Civic Engagement in Communities With Health Disparities

Engaging Medical-Care Providers to Address Non-Clinical Determinants of Health

Vicki W Girard, Yael Cannon, Deborah F Perry & Eileen S Moore, Leveraging Academic-Medical Legal Partnerships to Advance Health Justice

Lisa A. Cooper, Somnath Saha & Michelle van Ryn, Mandated Implicit Bias Training for Health Professionals—A Step Toward Equity in Health Care

Chidinma A. Ibe, Debra Hickman & Lisa A. Cooper, To Advance Health Equity During COVID-19 and Beyond, Elevate and Support Community Health Workers

Deidra C. Crews, Chiquita A. Collins & Lisa A. Cooper, Distinguishing Workforce Diversity From Health Equity Efforts in Medicine

Social, Economic, & Environmental Determinants of Health Disparity

Yael Cannon, The Persistent Public Health Emergency

Kristin Henning, The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth

Sheila R. Foster & Christian Iaione, Co-Cities: Innovative Transitions toward Just and Self-Sustaining Communities

Yael Cannon, Equitable Thriving: A Lifecourse Approach to Maternal and Child Health Justice

Nicole Tuchinda & Yael Cannon, Critical Perspectives to Advance Educational Equity and Health Justice

Olanrewaju Falusi, Julie M. Linton & Lisa R. Fortuna, Children in Immigrant Families: Advancing Health Equity

Ruqaiijah Yearby, The Return of Jim Crow: Government Discrimination Against Women, LGBTQIA+ Individuals, and Racial/Ethnic Minority Individuals

Kimberly M. Nelson, Wendy E. Parmet, Kristen Underhill & Ruqaiijah Yearby, The Return of Jane Crow: Law Affecting Black People and Other People of Color 

Adrienne R. Ghorashi and Ruqaiijah Yearby, Role of State Constitutions in Racism, Governance, and Health Equity

Ruqaiijah Yearby,  Structural Racism and Health Disparities

Ruqaiijah Yearby, Brietta Clark, & José F. Figueroa, Structural Racism In Historical And Modern US Health Care Policy

Shaquita Bell, Jason F. Deen &  Molly Fuentes, et al., Caring for American Indian and Alaska Native Children and Adolescents

Shaquita Bell, Testimony of Shaquita Bell on Behalf of the AAP to Discuss the Critical Importance of Federal Investment in American Indian and Alaska Native Child Health  

Alessandra C. Angelino, Yolanda Evans, Kelly Moore, & Shaquita Bell, Ending the Erasure of American Indian and Alaska Native Adolescents and Young Adults in Research in the United States

Andrea N. Garcia, Allison Empey, & Shaquita Bell, Addressing the Impacts of Racism on American Indian and Alaska Native Child Health

Allison Empey, Andrea Garcia, & Shaquita Bell, American Indian/Alaska Native Child Health and Poverty

Shaquita Bell, Olanrewaju Falusi, & Edwin Lindo, Elimination of race-based medicine: a call to action

Lisa Cooper, Yerby Diversity Lecture in Public Health: Lisa A. Cooper

Lisa Cooper, Public Health On Call

Lisa Cooper, Everyone deserves to be healthy. Research cuts could prevent it.

Advocacy for Health Justice

Web Event: Health Care Institutions, Hippocratic Duty, and Immigration Enforcement

Speakers: Julie Linton (Committee on Federal Government Affairs, American Academy of Pediatrics); Thomas Saenz (President & General Counsel, MALDEFs); Altaf Saadi (Assistant Prof of Neurology, Harvard Medical School); Matt Lopas (Director of State Advocacy, National Immigration Law Center); Gregg Bloche (Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Health Law, Policy, & Ethics, Georgetown Law, Moderator)

Yael Cannon, Case and Commentary: How Is Access to Legal Resources and Advocacy Foundational to Health Justice?

Yael Cannon, Unmet Legal Needs as Health Injustice