ADDRESSING RACISM THROUGH MEDICAL-LEGAL PARTNERSHIPS
September 2020 — Founding Director of Dickinson Law’s Medical-Legal Partnership (MLP) Clinic and Assistant Professor Medha Makhlouf shared her early ideas about how Critical Race Theory can help to inform the operation of Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic’s seeking to address racism as a social determinant of health in her first blog post, "Addressing Racism through Medical-Legal Partnerships," which was recently published in a digital symposium called “Understanding the Role of Race and Health” hosted by Harvard Law's Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and Bioethics. Learn more
Professor Medha D. Makhlouf is an Assistant Professor and Founding Director of the Medical-Legal Partnership Clinic at Penn State Dickinson Law. She has a joint appointment in the Department of Public Health Sciences at Penn State College of Medicine. Professor Makhlouf’s research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of health law, immigrants’ rights, and poverty law and policy. Her recent scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the New York University Law Review, the Northwestern University Law Review Online, and the American Journal of Law and Medicine. Professor Makhlouf’s work is available at https://works.bepress.com/medha-makhlouf/.