Strategies and Opportunities for Strengthening Community Health through Medical-Legal Partnership – Public Health Collaboration
Submitted by Edie
- 29 October 2019
October 30, 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. EST
Co-hosted by the Network for Public Health Law & National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership
Improving health equity is a goal shared by public health, health care, and public interest legal practitioners. The medical-legal partnership (MLP) approach, which incorporates lawyers into holistic health teams to address health-harming legal needs, provides an excellent model for cross-sectoral collaboration to improve health. When informed by a population health perspective and implemented alongside public health department partners and community stakeholders, patient-level efforts can be strategically scaled to achieve population-level health improvement.
By attending this webinar, you will:
- Explore opportunities for MLPs and public health departments to integrate their unique perspectives in service of individuals and communities.
- Identify strategies for prioritizing community engagement and bridging individual and population-level perspectives to better address both individual legal needs and social determinants of health.
- Learn about data-informed advocacy for sustainable MLP funding and upstream solutions.
- Hear about successes and lessons learned from MLPs that have collaborated closely with health department partners.