Mark A. Nordenberg Lecture in Law, Medicine, and Psychiatry
Samuel Bagenstos, JD
General Counsel to the US Department of Health and Human Services
Abstract: Health inequities and disparities arise and are reinforced because of a series of social decisions that have occurred over a long period of time. Those decisions include some that have been explicitly focused on health, as well as others that seem to focus on other matters but have clear systemic consequences for health. But our legal and policy interventions to promote health justice too often focus on rectifying inequities at a discrete point in time, and they too often ignore the systemic contributors to those inequities. This lecture will highlight a view of health justice that takes into account the broader timeframe over which social decisions contribute to health inequities and disparities. It will also cover the possible legal implications, with attention to both the COVID pandemic and other acute and chronic health crises.
This program has been approved by PACLE for 1.5 hours of CLE credit. There will be a $45.00 fee for processing CLE credit for this event.
Sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law