All Posts: medical-legal partnership

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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…

January 16, 2026

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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…

December 19, 2023

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Georgetown’s Health Justice Alliance Unites Law and Medical Centers to Advance Health Equity

May 19, 2021

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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…

January 11, 2019

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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…

May 1, 2018

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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…

March 29, 2018

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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…

March 13, 2018

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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…

September 11, 2017