Health Law and Policy Program

Conference Agenda

Friday, October 2, 2020, 12:30-3:40 pm Eastern

(11:30-2:40 pm Central, 9:30 am-12:40 pm Pacific)

听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 Health Justice: Critical Perspectives In Health Law & Policy

This virtual conference will bring together health law and policy researchers, advocates, health workers, and justice movement activists to foster theory, practice, and action on health justice. Our focus is on applying critical perspectives鈥攊ncluding critical race theory, Lat Crit, ClassCrit, black feminist theory, feminist legal theory, queer theory, critical disability studies, and more鈥攖o the most pressing challenges in health law and policy.

12:30-12:40 Eastern聽 聽 聽Welcoming Remarks

(11:30-11:40 Central, 9:30-9:40 Pacific)

  • Lindsay F. Wiley,聽 Director of the Health Law and Policy Program and Professor of Law, 小蓝视频 Washington College of Law
  • Sarah De Guia,聽 CEO of ChangeLab Solutions
  • Ruqaiijah Yearby,聽 Executive Director and Co-Founder, Institute for Healing Justice and Equity and Professor of Law, St. Louis University School of Law

12:40-1:30 Eastern聽 聽 聽 聽Securing Distributive Justice

(11:40-12:30 Central, 9:40-10:30聽Pacific)

  • Brietta R. Clark,聽 Professor of Law and J. Rex Dibble Fellow, Loyola Law School
  • Courtney Anderson,聽 Associate Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law
  • Emily Benfer,聽 Visiting Professor of Law, Wake Forest School of Law

1:30-1:40 Eastern聽 聽 聽 聽 Break

(12:30-12:40 Central, 10:30-10:40 Pacific)

1:40-2:30 Eastern聽 聽 聽 聽 Valuing Human Dignity聽

(12:40-1:30 Central, 10:40-11:30 Pacific)

  • Seema Mohapatra,聽 Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
  • Mar铆a Gonz谩lez Albuixech,聽 Director, Communications and Immigrant Health, Health Care for All 聽
  • Katherine Macfarlane,聽 Associate Professor of Law, University of Idaho College of Law聽
  • Jamila Michener,聽聽Associate Professor, Co-Director, Cornell Center for Health Equity, Cornell University聽

2:30-2:40 Eastern聽 聽 聽 聽 Break

(1:30-1:40 Central, 11:30-11:40 Pacific)

2:40-3:30 Eastern聽 聽 聽 聽 Empowering Communities

(1:40-2:30 Central, 11:40-12:30 Pacific)

    • Ruqaiijah Yearby,聽 Executive Director and Co-Founder, Institute for Healing Justice and Equity and Professor of Law, St. Louis University School of Law
    • Dian Million, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of American Indian Studies, University of Washington聽
    • Xavier Morales, Executive Director, The Praxis Project

    3:30-3:40 Eastern聽 聽 聽 聽 Concluding Remarks and Next Steps

    (2:30-2:40聽Central, 12:30-12:40 Pacific)