Partnerships between health and legal assistance services have assisted countless people overcome complex and intersecting problems in their lives by providing access to legal help in health settings.
But how do these collaborations leverage real systemic change from helping individuals with their health-harming legal problems?
Join us for a conversation with Bethany Hamilton, co-Director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (NCMLP) at the Milken Institute School of Public Health, about the opportunities for advocacy in this work, what it takes to engage in policy and systems change, and the impact it can achieve.
Panellists
Bethany Hamilton is the co-Director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership (NCMLP) at the Milken Institute School of Public Health. Hamilton has spent her career working at the intersection of health equity and social justice. She most recently served as Deputy Director, State Affairs at the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), where she led projects focused on expanding Medicaid, defending the Affordable Care Act, and strengthening the ability of community health centers to carry out their mission.
She advanced health care workforce development initiatives as part of NACHC’s Community HealthCorps Program, and began her career as an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellow at Legal Assistance of Western NY, where she built a re-entry law clinic and co-managed a law student summer associate program. As a former member of NCMLP’s Advisory Council from 2014-2019, she served as a bridge between the two sectors and was part of the team that oversaw NCMLP’s transition to become a federally-funded technical assistance hub for health centers.
Dr Tessa Boyd-Caine is the founding CEO of Health Justice Australia, established in 2016 as the national centre of excellence for health justice partnership. Originally a criminologist, she has worked in health, criminal justice and human rights organisations in Australia and internationally. She was previously Deputy CEO of the Australian Council of Social Service and was the inaugural Fulbright Professional Scholar in Nonprofit Leadership.
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