Friday, October 2, 2020, 12:30-3:40 pm Eastern
(11:30-2:40 pm Central, 9:30 am-12:40 pm Pacific)
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—including critical race theory, Lat Crit, ClassCrit, black feminist theory, feminist legal theory, queer theory, critical disability studies, and more—to the most pressing challenges in health law and policy.
12:30-12:40 Eastern Welcoming Remarks
(11:30-11:40 Central, 9:30-9:40 Pacific)
- Lindsay F. Wiley, Director of the Health Law and Policy Program and Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
- Sarah De Guia, CEO of ChangeLab Solutions
- Ruqaiijah Yearby, 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 Securing Distributive Justice
(11:40-12:30 Central, 9:40-10:30 Pacific)
- Brietta R. Clark, Professor of Law and J. Rex Dibble Fellow, Loyola Law School
- Courtney Anderson, Associate Professor of Law, Georgia State University College of Law
- Emily Benfer, Visiting Professor of Law, Wake Forest School of Law
1:30-1:40 Eastern Break
(12:30-12:40 Central, 10:30-10:40 Pacific)
1:40-2:30 Eastern Valuing Human Dignity
(12:40-1:30 Central, 10:40-11:30 Pacific)
- Seema Mohapatra, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
- María González Albuixech, Director, Communications and Immigrant Health, Health Care for All
- Katherine Macfarlane, Associate Professor of Law, University of Idaho College of Law
- Jamila Michener, Associate Professor, Co-Director, Cornell Center for Health Equity, Cornell University
2:30-2:40 Eastern Break
(1:30-1:40 Central, 11:30-11:40 Pacific)
2:40-3:30 Eastern Empowering Communities
(1:40-2:30 Central, 11:40-12:30 Pacific)
- Ruqaiijah Yearby, 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
- Xavier Morales, Executive Director, The Praxis Project
3:30-3:40 Eastern Concluding Remarks and Next Steps
(2:30-2:40 Central, 12:30-12:40 Pacific)