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Beyond the Clinic: Georgetown Medical Student Trades Scrubs For Suit in Medical-Legal Partnership
Medical student Scott Nichols gained a deep understanding of the intersection of law and medicine in the Cancer Legal Assistance and Wellbeing (LAW) Project, which assigns fourth-year medical students to work alongside attorneys representing cancer patients to address both legal and medical concerns.
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Family Gift Supports Georgetown’s Health Justice Alliance Over the Next Decade
A new gift of $1.5 million to Georgetown University will sustain the efforts of the Health Justice Alliance (HJA), Georgetown’s medical-legal partnership that is training future physicians, lawyers and nurses to collaboratively use the law as a tool to improve health and well-being at the patient, systems, and population levels.
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Georgetown’s Health Justice Alliance Unites Law and Medical Centers to Advance Health Equity
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Seeking Social Justice for Patients, Medical Students Turn to the Law
(January 11, 2019) — A new program that allows Georgetown University medical students to complete an elective “rotation” in a law clinic is yielding immediate results for underserved families in the Washington area. Leveraging their training, a Georgetown University medical and law student teamed up to help a mother obtain the appropriate learning accommodations for a […]
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Training Future Doctors to Assess Oral Health
A research project evaluating the effectiveness of an oral health training program demonstrated the real-world impact of the work of the Health Justice Alliance, a partnership between Georgetown University Medical Center and Georgetown University Law Center.
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Hoyas on the Hill: Health Justice Scholars Advocate for Change
On March 22, 45 Health Justice Scholars from the Georgetown University School of Medicine were joined by students from Georgetown University Law Center on Capitol Hill for Health Justice Week 2018 to advocate for legislation to end long-term homelessness, provide maternity care for women, support veteran health through telemedicine, and develop school-based health centers.
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Georgetown’s Health Justice Alliance, O’Neill Institute Welcome World Bank President Jim Kim
Georgetown’s Health Justice Alliance and the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law hosted a screening of the film “Bending the Arc,” about the founding of the NGO Partners in Health, on March 7. One of the film’s subjects, Jim Yong Kim, MD, PhD, now president of the World Bank, was present for a discussion afterward.
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Georgetown Doctors and Lawyers Discuss District’s New Medical-Legal Partnership
How can a new medical-legal partnership make a difference in health disparities in the District and beyond? Directors of the new Georgetown University Health Justice Alliance explain the new partnership – which now offers services at the city’s largest homeless shelter and Anacostia High School’s health center – during a panel discussion, Wednesday, Sept. 13 at Georgetown.
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