Podcasts about medical legal partnership

This episode of 3:12 The HRP Podcast is a dive into mold and the mold related work we do at HRP. In today's Work Hard section, we speak with Kirby Mitchell an attorney and the legal director of the upstate Medical legal partnership, a nonprofit that provides free legal assistance to low income residents of South Carolina, helping folks deal with their mold issues.For Play Hard, we'll be going from fungi to Fun Guys! When we sit down with HRP Regional Southeast Manager Shaun Malin, HRP's Clays 4 Cancer, an annual charity clay shoot that raises funds for breast cancer research. Check out the links below for publications about the Medical Legal Partnership:https://www.instituteforchildsuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Medical-Legal-Partnerships-web-1.pdf-1.pdfhttps://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=739401  A reminder that our Play Hard segment is also available in video form! Watch that on our YouTube Channel. Make sure you subscribe, give us a review & check us out on social media!YouTubeLinkedInInstagramTwitterFacebookWebsite

In the first hour of "Connections with Evan Dawson" on Tuesday, November 14, 2023, our guests help us understand the role of a medical legal partnership and how it can help patients improve their health outcomes.

Babz welcomes Dr. Andrea Silber and Attorney Emily Roc, They are the medical and legal side of an innovative medical-legal partnership which provides civil legal aid to breast cancer patients at YNHH. Emily Rock Senior Clinical Fellow, Medical-Legal Partnership Dr. Silber is the Associate Director for Clinical Research at the Center for Community Engagement and Health Equity at the Yale Cancer Center and a Professor of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine Yale Law School Yale Cancer Center Yale Medical School

Joining Matthew and Tina this week is Emily Suski of USC School of Law's CHAMPS, as well as Kirby Mitchell of Greenville's Medical Legal Partnership, both organizations that directly assist people with legal health issues. Tune in to hear them describe the great needs of their clients and the collaboration between providers, non-profits, and social workers to help those in tough legal medical situations.

What is health injustice? How do we recognize it? And what does law have to do with it? On this episode of Contraindicated, experts Liz Tobin-Tyler and Raquaijjah Yearby offer a primer on health injustice and inequity. Listeners can expect to learn about social determinants of health, the role of law in health inequity, interventions that can help, how people can protect themselves, as well as grassroots efforts to address health injustice. Further Reading: Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler and Joel Teitelbaum, https://www.jblearning.com/catalog/productdetails/9781284152074?utm_term=&utm_campaign=Strategic%20Products%20by%20ISBN%20%2F%20Media%20Format%20(LO)%20-%20NTV&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=ppc&hsa_acc=6959852188&hsa_cam=12455877525&hsa_grp=116314127257&hsa_ad=502054202617&hsa_src=g&hsa_tgt=pla-293946777986&hsa_kw=&hsa_mt=&hsa_net=adwords&hsa_ver=3&gclid=Cj0KCQjwrJOMBhCZARIsAGEd4VHXeYqn_8F9nGD2KBZCy0-h5_c-enO2rSrzGfOUI9v1QjHYR_wMzN4aAr-WEALw_wcB (Essentials of Health Justice: A Primer), Jones and Bartlett, 2019.  Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler and Joel Teitelbaum, https://info.jblearning.com/en/essentials-of-health-justice-2e-tobin-tyler-email-mql?utm_campaign=PH_Tobin-Tyler_9781284248142&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=180254462&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9rbQejqS1FrVcQGhHnPJulY4SrUhRWyGoZSwjpjYVvrd5NKIQ9riNW74hZ97ycodenky3YD0brJ0azx2u1Hpb9DsINTs8qHhMs_lBu86GTV-RO_no&utm_content=179364613&utm_source=hs_email (Essentials of Health Justice: Law, Policy and Structural Change), Jones and Bartlett, forthcoming 2022.  Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler, Ellen Lawton, Kathleen Conroy, et al., https://cap-press.com/pdf/2173.pdf (Poverty, Health and Law: Readings and Cases for Medical-Legal Partnership), Carolina Academic Press, 2011. http://medical-legalpartnership.org/ (National Center for Medical Legal Partnership)  Ruqaiijah Yearby, https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2020/09/22/structural-racism-social-determinant-of-health/ (Structural Racism: The Root Cause of the Social Determinants of Health), Bill of Health (September 22, 2020).  Ruqaiijah Yearby and Seema Mohapatra, https://academic.oup.com/jlb/article/7/1/lsaa036/5849058 (Law, Structural racism, and the COVID-19 Pandemic), Journal of Law and Biosciences (June 28, 2020). 

While patients with cancer face many physical and psychological challenges associated with their disease and/or treatment, their social, emotional, and legal needs can lead to ongoing health disparities and reduced quality of life if left unaddressed. Hear how a unique medical-legal partnership at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) Health System expands the clinical team to include lawyers who address the legal issues that affect patients' health and well-being. Learn how this 2022 ACCC Innovator Award winner redefined “comprehensive care” for patients and enabled the program's team lead to embrace her passion to consistently find joy in her day-to-day role. Guests: Allison L. Held, JDAssociate General Counsel & Director, Medical-Legal Partnership at VCU Health SystemVirginia Commonwealth University Health System, VCU Massey Cancer Center Resources: VCU's Medical-Legal Partnership Meets Oncology Patients' Needs 2022 ACCC Innovator Award Details ACCC 39th National Oncology Conference Comprehensive Cancer Care Services The Role of Community Partners in Serving AYA Patients ACCC Financial Advocacy Network This podcast is part of a special series on the 2022 ACCC Innovator Award winners. For a deeper dive into this content, visit ACCC's Innovator Award website.

On December 3rd, 2021, SIREN organized a special closing event (insert tears) for the 2021 Coffee & Science series. Special guests Bethany Hamilton, JD, and Kelly Doran, MD, shared their own takeaways from the series and asked participants to share favorite episodes and raise big-picture questions about how social care research can be used to move the needle on policy and practice. Reminder! Please let us know what you thought of Coffee & Science and your ideas for SIREN's 2022 National Research Meeting: https://ucsf.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7Otc9vpAIr8G9cW Voices you hear, in order of appearance: Yuri Cartier, MPH, Senior Research Associate at SIREN Kelly Doran, MD, Emergency Physician and Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Population Health at NYU Grossman School of Medicine Laura Gottlieb, MD, MPH, Founding Co-Director of SIREN Bethany Hamilton, JD, Co-Director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership at George Washington University Episodes highlighted in this wrap party: Challenging Racist Systems, Processes, and Analyses in Social Care To Scale or Not to Scale: Social Risk Screening and the US Health Care System The Intersection of Racism, Discrimination, and Social Risk Screening in Clinical Settings Why and How a Health Center Created a Social Enterprise Community-Hospital Collaborations to Improve Neighborhoods The Health Care Anchor Model Delivering Social Care in the Virtual Frontier Community Health Workers and Social Care Integration Using Clinical Decision Support Tools to Contextualize Care Taking Action on Housing as a Political Determinant of Health Other resources:NASEM Framework

Holly Gaspar of Dartmouth-Hitchcock and Chelsie Rommell of NH Legal Assistance discuss a new medical-legal partnership being launched in the Upper Valley and Sullivan County. The two-year pilot project will identify health disparities in those communities and make civil legal assistance accessible to young families in need in those communities. This week's episode is sponsored by TFMoran (www.tfmoran.com), a leading land planning and engineering firm with offices in Bedford and Portsmouth, NH.

Host Matt Fisher's guest is Bethany Hamilton, Co-Director, National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership at the Milken Institute School of Public Health. Their discussion includes background of medical-legal partnership programs; synergy between medical and legal professions to address social justice and social equity; expanding views points to understand intersection and interaction of social needs; building bridges across disciplines; necessity of inclusiveness; taking the time to ask questions and then listen. To stream our Station live 24/7 visit www.HealthcareNOWRadio.com or ask your Smart Device to “….Play HealthcareNOW Radio”. Find all of our network podcasts on your favorite podcast platforms and be sure to subscribe and like us. Learn more at www.healthcarenowradio.com/listen/

Medical-legal partnerships are the focus in this episode of “Talk Justice." LSC Emerging Leaders Council member Jason Tashea hosts a conversation on how MLPs can improve health outcomes with Bethany Hamilton, co-director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership; Dr. Dawn Haut, CEO at Eskenazi Health Center in Indiana; and Rakuya Trice, deputy director of Indiana Legal Services and the organization’s director of medical-legal partnerships.

We're excited to share a joint episode in collaboration with the What is Black? and Flesh & Bold podcasts in which we're discussing everything you need to know about the COVID vaccines. Joining us are Dr. Lauren Smith, Chief Health Equity and Strategy Officer for the CDC Foundation, and Dr. Letitia Dzirasa, Commissioner of Health for the Baltimore City Health Department, who talk about the launch of the COVID vaccine, the COVID vaccine and children, health inequities, and the vaccine rollout in communities of color. Listen in now!Lauren A. Smith, MD, MPH is the Chief Health Equity and Strategy Officer for the CDC Foundation. In this role, she partners with the CDC Foundation’s other senior leaders to develop and drive strategic efforts to embed health equity across the Foundation’s COVID-19 response activities with an explicit focus on addressing systemic racism and its impact on vulnerable populations’ resiliency amidst the pandemic. Her previous leadership roles have included serving as co-CEO of FSG, one of the world’s leading social impact consulting firms; as medical director and then interim commissioner for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health; as senior strategic advisor for a national innovation and improvement network focused on reducing infant mortality; as national medical director of the Medical Legal Partnership for Children; and as the medical director of the pediatric inpatient service at Boston Medical Center, where she was on faculty in the Department of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine. She currently serves on the boards of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, Health Law Advocates, Tobacco Free Mass and Zero to Three. She has published extensively in peer-reviewed literature on health equity and the implication of social policies on child and family wellbeing. Dr. Smith holds a BA with honors in biology from Harvard College, an MD from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, and an MPH from the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health. She completed her pediatrics residency and chief residency at Children’s Hospital Boston and her general pediatrics fellowship at Boston Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics.Letitia Dzirasa, MD joined the Baltimore City government as the Commissioner of Health in March 2019. Her special interests include obesity management and prevention, trauma-informed care in children and adolescents, and expanded use of technology to improve health outcomes. Prior to joining the Health Department, she worked at Fearless Solutions (Fearless), a Baltimore-based digital services firm that builds custom software solutions for local and federal government clients. In her role at Fearless as Health Innovation Officer, Dr. Dzirasa was responsible for managing the Healthcare IT portfolio for the company and provided clinical subject matter expertise to HIT projects. Dr. Dzirasa also has close clinical ties to the Baltimore community, having trained at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in pediatrics and having worked as medical director for school-based health and quality at the Baltimore Medical System from 2013-2016. In addition to holding a BS from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in biological sciences, Dr. Dzirasa graduated from Meharry Medical College summa cum laude in 2007. She lives in downtown Baltimore with her husband and son.

Amber and Joseph are joined by Kirby Mitchell, legal director of South Carolina's Medical Legal Partnership. Tune in to get a breakdown of what medical-legal partnerships are and why they're important for the overall health of South Carolinians.You can find more information at the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership's website.Follow Direct Examination on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.Send questions or suggestions to directexaminationpodcast@gmail.com.Theme music by 630 Band.DISCLAIMER: The information on this podcast (1) does not establish an attorney-client relationship; (2) is only for general information; (3) does not constitute legal advice; (4) cannot be cited as legal authority; and (5) cannot replace the advice of an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction who has reviewed the specific facts of your case. Please note that the information on this podcast is not a description of the attorney’s quality of representation and is not a guarantee of a specific result. Any result achieved on behalf of a client in other matters should not create any expectation of a favorable outcome and does not necessarily indicate that similar results can be obtained for other clients. Nothing contained in this podcast is intended to compare our services to the services of any other law firm or lawyer, or to imply any specialization in an area of law. The publication of this podcast is not intended to constitute the practice of law in any jurisdiction in which no attorney in the podcast is licensed to practice, nor is it intended to solicit legal representation of anyone in any such jurisdiction.

Speakers:John Schreiber, MDJay Sicklick, JDPatricia Marealle, JDSeries Objectives:Provide a Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 & its impact on familiesReview Covid-19 weekly updatesArrange varying field expertise to discuss the effects of Covid in their fieldEvent Objectives:Provide an update on three critical legal protections afforded children and families as a result of the pandemicIdentify and improve provider knowledge of immigrant legal rights including the ABC's of the Special Immigrant Juvenile Status pathway

COVID-19 is creating a financial crisis for families including the inability to pay basic bills like mortgage and car payments and utility bills. Ellen Lawton, lead research scientist at George Washington University and co-leader of the National Center for Medical Legal Partnership discusses the impending eviction tsunami that will burden millions and how this will only add to the global health emergency.  Hosted by Frank Sesno, Healthy You: Surviving a Pandemic is a co-production of the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health and the School of Media and Public Affairs.

In this episode Sarah talks with Rebecca Russo, a supervising attorney at Legal Assistance of Western NY (LawNY), about the medical legal partnership model, where doctors and lawyers partner together to help patients. Learn more about LawNY:https://www.lawny.org/Support the show (https://kidsthrive585.org/about/)

We're ending season one of What is Black podcast with a discussion about "When They See Us," the Ava DuVernay docuseries about five teenagers falsely accused and convicted for a crime they didn't commit. Much has been written about the series but I wanted to explore with my guests Dr. Baraka Floyd, Dr. Frank Clark, Dr. David de Angel Sola and Dr. Angela Moemeka how the series portrays how the adverse childhood experience and toxic stress of structural racism impacts Black and Brown youth then and now and how the series can be a conversation starter for families and communities to address racism. Guests Dr. Baraka D. Floyd, MD, MSc is a pediatrician at Stanford School Of Medicine and co-medical director of the Peninsula Family Advocacy Program, Stanford Children's Health’s Medical-Legal Partnership; @rakareemd Dr. Frank Alexander Clark is a board-certified adult psychiatrist in Greenville, SC. Dr. Clark has held many leadership positions in national organizations including the American Psychiatric Association and the American Medical Association. His passions/interests revolve around teaching, advocacy, mentoring, and community engagement. Dr. Clark’s proudest accomplishments include being a husband and a father; @tapkidmd Dr. David de Angel Sola is a pediatrician, Fellow of Sleep Medicine at Yale School Of Medicine and researcher. Dr. Angela Moemeka is a pediatrician and Chief Medical Officer for Aetna Better Health of Texas; @DrMoemekaMD Social Media: What is Black- @whatisblk

Although innovation in the legal field is present, its ability to provide solutions to access to justice issues is progressing slowly. Is the legal profession’s adverse response to empirical research and evidence-based thinking to blame? In this report from On The Road, Kimberly Sanchez interviews Ellen Lawton, April Faith-Slaker, and Amy Johnson about research in legal innovation, why it’s important for access to justice, and current research methodologies they’re using. Ellen Lawton is the co-director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership which is in the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, Washington, DC. April Faith-Slaker is at the Harvard Access to Justice Lab, a research lab that broadly focuses on access to justice issues. Amy Johnson is the executive director of the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission, which does research on legal needs and gathers empirical data on how the state allocates resources.

On this weeks podcast, we have Sarah Hooper, J.D., the Executive Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science and Health Policy, an interprofessional partnerships in education, research, and clinical training and service. We talk with Sarah about her work creating the Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors Clinic (MLPS) in which law students and faculty provide free legal assistance to low-income older patients at the UCSF Medical Center and at the San Francisco VA.

Date: January 12, 2012 Featuring: Barry Zuckerman, MD, Chair, Department of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine; Founder, National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership Robert Kahn, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Director, Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Carol Beasley, MPPM, Director of Strategic Projects, Institute for Healthcare Improvement Let’s face it. If someone mentions the words “medical” and “legal” in the same sentence, the next thing we imagine we’ll hear about is a lawsuit. Picture this instead: empowered, proactive social workers, collaborating with health care providers, lawyers, and legal experts, to ensure that the health of indigent patients isn’t undermined by unsafe housing, lack of food, or lack of access to benefits and entitlements. Some people refer to this type of outreach as “preventive law” because it’s directly related to preventive health measures we now recognize are crucial to help people head off disease or better manage chronic conditions.Doctors and nurses on the front lines have understood for years the role that social conditions play in improving or worsening health. Also, what happens when problems brewing at home, such as domestic abuse, don’t rise to the surface during a routine medical visit? Fifteen years ago, Dr. Barry Zuckerman founded a program at Boston Medical Center to address a swarm of issues affecting the health of low-income children. Six years ago, this initiative became the National Center for Medical–Legal Partnership, focusing on anyone, at any age, in need of the combined power of medical and legal intervention. The effort and the framing caught on and there are now over 200 programs like Zuckerman’s across the US, one of them in Cincinnati. WIHI host Madge Kaplan welcomes Dr. Zuckerman and Dr. Robert Kahn of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center to explain and explore the ingredients of an effective medical-legal partnership and how the efforts to date are making a difference in patients’ health and their lives. At Cincinnati Children’s, key prompts to get at social determinants of health are built right into the electronic health record. This helps screen for health-undermining circumstances — for instance, a landlord’s lack of attention to a faulty refrigerator — that might benefit from legal attention. This is just the type of thing Carol Beasley is keeping an eye on as she continues to help spearhead the work of the IHI Triple Aim initiative. When the goals are improving the experience of care, improving the health of populations, and reducing per capita costs, it’s increasingly essential to form coalitions and partnerships that integrate legal and social service expertise with health care expertise.

Part of our 2017 Access to Justice Award Series, this podcast features 2017 Rising Star Award winner Weayonnoh Nelson-Davies of Community Legal Aid in Worcester. She oversees Community Legal Aid’s medical-legal partnership with UMass Memorial Health Care, working with clinical partners and medical providers to help represent low-income clients seeking pro bono assistance with special education needs, disability and public benefits, guardianship, and housing.

Ellen Lawton, Principal Investigator and Lead Research Scientist with the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University, and Liz Tobin Tyler, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine and Health Services, Policy and Practice at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, join us to discuss the how Medical-Legal Partnership is working with health centers across the country to address barriers health care access. Download NACHC's newest brief on Medical-legal Partnership and Community Health centers at bit.ly/oe_mlp. Learn more about Medical Legal Partnership at www.medical-legalpartnership.org

It's been widely assumed that there’s a strong connection between affordable, stable housing and the health of children. Now, we have proof. On this episode of the Affordable Housing podcast brought to you by Eden Housing, we’ll learn about the latest research from Children’s HealthWatch and the National Housing Conference that shows that public investment in housing, including housing for homeless families and rental assistance for families who face food insecurity, clearly improves outcomes for vulnerable infants and young children. And it lowers healthcare costs. Joining host Joanne Greene is Dr. Megan Sandel, Principal Investigator with Children’s HealthWatch, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, and the Medical Director of National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership. RESOURCES For additional information on this topic, visit: http://childrenshealthwatch.org http://www.nhc.org/#!2016-housing-as-health-investment/wq5gp http://edenhousing.org

It's been widely assumed that there’s a strong connection between affordable, stable housing and the health of children. Now, we have proof. On this episode of the Affordable Housing podcast brought to you by Eden Housing, we’ll learn about the latest research from Children’s HealthWatch and the National Housing Conference that shows that public investment in housing, including housing for homeless families and rental assistance for families who face food insecurity, clearly improves outcomes for vulnerable infants and young children. And it lowers healthcare costs. Joining host Joanne Greene is Dr. Megan Sandel, Principal Investigator with Children’s HealthWatch, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Boston University Schools of Medicine and Public Health, and the Medical Director of National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership. RESOURCES For additional information on this topic, visit: http://childrenshealthwatch.org http://www.nhc.org/#!2016-housing-as-health-investment/wq5gp http://edenhousing.org

Episode 21 of the Toledo Matters Podcast - The Race 4 Justice, with Heather Hall & Dorian Slaybod ——————————————————— With Bob Tucker, Danny Woodcock, & Nathan Lewis ——————————————————— Fun things in the 419 The Race 4 Justice is June 18th in Downtown Toledo. A 5k and a 1 mile walk, proceeds from the Race for Justice will help Legal Aid’s Medical-Legal Partnership for Children (MLPC) program to serve more children and families. The Race4Justice is coordinated by ABLE and LAWO’s Emerging Leaders Council, a group of attorneys who are the next generation of leaders in the legal community. More info ------ www.race4justice.org ——————————– Today’s Guests: *** Heather Hall *** * Director of the Medical Legal Partnership, Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (MLPC.ablelaw.org) * Director, Race 4 Justice Favorite hidden gem in Toledo: Sense of community, and sense of pride in the arts and culture with the young professionals and youth in the city. *** Dorian Slaybod *** * Attorney, Lucas County Common Pleas Court * Former Toledo City Paper Writer * Organizer, Race 4 Justice * Heather's Hype Man Favorite hidden gem in Toledo: Old South End Toledo Trivia: 1. Name three of the ten current judges on the Court of Common Pleas? 2. Whose statue appears outside the Lucas County Courthouse (Adams Street side)? 3. What Toledo law firm operates out of a former plumbing supply warehouse? 4. Which is Toledo's oldest law firm? **Royalty music provided by Bensound

This month, AMA Journal of Ethics theme editor Arina Evgenievna Chesnokova, MPH, a third-year medical student at Baylor College of Medicine, interviewed Megan Sandel, MD, MPH about how physicians can establish partnerships with attorneys. Dr. Sandel is the medical director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership and addresses the need for and barriers to medical-legal partnerships.

"A safe, decent, affordable home is like a vaccine -- it literally keeps children healthy," says Dr. Megan Sandel, Co-Principal Investigator at Children's Health Watch; Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Public Health at Boston University Schools for Medicine and Public Health; and Medical Director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership. In this month's episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast, Dr. Sandel joins host Joanne Greene in a lively and informative discussion on the impacts of what Dr. Sandel calls "housing insecurity"-- overcrowded conditions, frequent moves, unsafe or unsanitary conditions, and inability to keep up with rents--on the health of children, particularly those between the ages of zero and three. RESOURCES * Listen to this and prior episodes of the Affordable Housing Podcast at EdenHousing.org * For additional information on this topic, visit: * ChildrensHealthwatch.org * Medical-LegalPartnership.org * Free subscriptions to the monthly Affordable Housing Podcast are available in iTunes

"A safe, decent, affordable home is like a vaccine -- it literally keeps children healthy," says Dr. Megan Sandel, Co-Principal Investigator at Children's Health Watch; Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Public Health at Boston University Schools for Medicine and Public Health; and Medical Director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership. In this month's episode of the Affordable Housing Podcast, Dr. Sandel joins host Joanne Greene in a lively and informative discussion on the impacts of what Dr. Sandel calls "housing insecurity"-- overcrowded conditions, frequent moves, unsafe or unsanitary conditions, and inability to keep up with rents--on the health of children, particularly those between the ages of zero and three. RESOURCES * Listen to this and prior episodes of the Affordable Housing Podcast at EdenHousing.org * For additional information on this topic, visit: * ChildrensHealthwatch.org * Medical-LegalPartnership.org * Free subscriptions to the monthly Affordable Housing Podcast are available in iTunes

If you experience any technical difficulties with this video or would like to make an accessibility-related request, please send a message to digicomm@uchicago.edu. The Joel and Barbara Alpert Professor of Pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine and Chief of Pediatrics at Boston Medical Center A national and international leader in health and child development disparities, Dr. Zuckerman's most important scientific contributions involve identifying factors contributing to low birth weight including drugs, alcohol and maternal health and most recently gene environment interaction. His work has influenced transformations in health care to better meet the needs of low income and minority children. Dr. Zuckerman pioneered the Medical-Legal Partnership for Children at Boston Medical Center, which uses legal advocacy in the health setting to address the non-biologic root causes of low-income children's health and developmental problems. He co-founded Project HEALTH which isnow a national organization deploying college volunteers in primary care settings to connect low-income parents with community based resources for their children. Dr. Zuckerman's research has demonstrated the effectiveness of the Reach Out and Read Program, a national effort by pediatricians that distributes to children a developmentally and culturally appropriate book to take home at each pediatric visit until age 5 so that parents can read aloud to promote their development. --- The Cafferty Lecture The Pastora San Juan Cafferty Lecture on Race and Ethnicity in American Life was established in 2005 on the occasion of the retirement of Professor Pastora San Juan Cafferty from The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. The Lecture is a forum for prominent social theorists, business executives, community leaders, philanthropists, and politicians to convene and discuss the issues critical to a well-functioning and secure society.