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Case Western Reserve University School of Law

Monday, February 28, 2022

Towards Racial Justice: The Role of Medical-Legal Partnership

Medha D. Makhlouf (Pennsylvania State University), Towards Racial Justice: The Role of Medical-Legal Partnerships, 50 J. L. Med. & Ethics (forthcoming 2022):

Medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) integrate knowledge and practices from law and health care in pursuit of health equity. However, the MLP movement has not reached its full potential to address racial health inequities, in part because its original framing was not explicitly race conscious. This article aims to stimulate discussion of the role of MLPs in racial justice. It calls for MLPs to name racism as a social determinant of health and to examine how racism may operate in the field. This work sets the stage for the next step: operationalizing racial justice in the MLP model, research, and practice.

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