Health Justice Clinic student attorneys Donell Gibson '18 and Eric Weyand '18 strategize about a client representation.
Health Justice Law & Policy Clinic
Learn to lawyer while serving low-income people facing cancer, changing the way health care is delivered, and advocating for population health.
The HJC is the legal partner in LegalCare at Roswell Park, a medical-legal partnership serving patients of Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center who otherwise would not have access to a lawyer.
In addition to functioning as the lead lawyers in a variety of civil legal matters, HJC student attorneys work on the "social determinants of health" - everything that contributes to health status that isn't genetics or biology - in both individual representations and projects aimed at health-enhancing systems change.
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516 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
716-645-2167
law-clinic@buffalo.edu
Clinic student attorneys work with UB graduate students to facilitate small-group conversations at the UB conference Igniting Hope: Building a Just Community with a Culture of Health & Equity, held April 2018.
Oct. 22, 2018 – The ABA Health Law Section’s Breast Cancer Initiatives Interest Group highlights ways that lawyers are helping cancer patients navigate their legal issues and mentions the work being done by the School of Law’s Health Justice Clinic.
May 2, 2018 - ‘Changing the conversation’ on Buffalo’s health disparities
Dec. 11, 2017 - Team Approach Highlighted in Dealing With Opioid Epidemic
April 5, 2017 - Team Based at Roswell Park Helps Patients and Families Deal with Legal Issues