Applications open to day and evening students
\nSPRING 2017 – register now!
\nClass time: Monday evenings
\nUniversity of Akron School of Law
\nFaculty: Marie B. Curry, J.D., M.P.H.
\nInterested students please contact: Professor Marie Curry mcurry@communitylegalaid.org for an application. Class size is limited.
\nThe Health Law and Policy Clinic (HLPC) is located at Community Legal Aid in downtown Akron. The clinic works with clients who are referred to Legal Aid\u2019s medical-legal partnership — the Health, Education, Advocacy and Law (HEAL) Project — from its medical partners at University of Akron Nursing Center for Community Health, Akron Children\u2019s Hospital, and Summa Women\u2019s Health Center.
\nClass content focuses attention on legal barriers to health, health disparities, and population health. The clinic provides opportunities for interdisciplinary learning through collaboration with its medical providers, Summit County Public Health, and statewide advocacy networks.
\nClinic students will gain skills in the following areas: interviewing clients; identifying legal issues presented by client\u2019s description of their problems; researching law and applying facts to law; investigating legal problem and potential solutions; connecting legal problems to patient health; researching health policy topics related to current advocacy issues, i.e., access to affordable medical care, racial and economic health disparities, local governance through prism of health; and presenting results of legal and policy research internally and externally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Applications open to day and evening students SPRING 2017 – register now! Class time: Monday evenings University of Akron School of Law Faculty: Marie B. Curry, J.D., M.P.H. Interested students please contact: Professor Marie Curry mcurry@communitylegalaid.org for an application. Class size is limited. The Health Law and Policy Clinic (HLPC) is located at Community Legal … Continue reading “Health Law and Policy Clinic (3 credits) – application is open!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1254,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-clinic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1254"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40131,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40127\/revisions\/40131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uakron.edu\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}