Opening Available - Health Justice Law & Policy Clinic!

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The UB Health Justice Law & Policy Clinic unexpectedly has an opening for the Spring 2019 semester! See the end of the post for how to apply.

Why health justice? Because the length and quality of your life shouldn't depend on your race, ethnicity, income, or neighborhood.
Medical-legal partnership is designed to address social determinants of health -- poverty, discrimination and segregation, food insecurity, etc. by:

1) providing traditional legal services in the healthcare setting
2) changing how healthcare providers think about non-biologic factors
3) changing systems to improve population health.

The HJC provides direct legal services to low-income people in our partnership with Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. But that's not all we'll be doing this semester; we'll also:
... Launch our new partnership with the East Side's Lighthouse Free Medical Clinic.
... Teach front-line healthcare providers and UB health sciences students how to recognize and respond to health-harming legal issues.
... Partner with local and national organizations on projects including:
- Investigating local home healthcare working conditions;
- Reforming the adult guardianship system;
- National Healthcare Decisions Day;
- Community organizing for food justice.

To apply: Send your resume and a cover letter explaining your interest ASAP to law-clinics@buffalo.edu

Questions? Contact Professor Danielle Pelfrey Duryea at dnpelfre@buffalo.edu