Lawyer Uses Legal System to Battle Poverty, Improve Health for Working Poor
October 17, 2012 | News Release
RWJF honors Amy Johnson, JD, with a 2012 Community Health Leaders Award.
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Network Development and Multidisciplinary Conferences for Public Health Law
October 12, 2011 | Program Result Report
Some 400 lawyers, health-related professionals and policy-makers attended the "Using Law, Policy and Research to Improve the Public's Health" conference to explore the role of law and policy in promoting global and domestic public health.
The Immigrants and Refugees New Arrivals Advocacy Project
September 9, 2011 | Program Result Report
The Center for Children's Advocacy in Hartford, Conn., operated a medical-legal advocacy project to improve the health of new immigrant and refugee children.
Strengthening Ties Between the Public Health and Legal Communities to Improve Public Health
September 18, 2009 | Program Result Report
The Public Health Law Association commissioned three articles published as a special supplement to the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, Vol. 36, September 2008.
A National Center Supports Growing Number of Medical-Legal Partnerships to Advocate for the Health of Children
March 21, 2009 | Program Result Report
Since 1993, the Medical-Legal Partnership for Children at Boston Medical Center has provided pediatric patients and their families with legal assistance on matters that can affect a child's health.