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The IU McKinney School of Law plans to hold a daylong symposium devoted to public health, housing and environmental issues later this month.
IU McKinney’s Indiana Health Law Review and the Hall Center for Law and Health will present a symposium, “Health, Housing and the Environment,” at Inlow Hall on Oct. 27.
According to a news release, IU McKinney students Nicole Bojrab, executive symposium editor for Indiana Health Law Review Volume XXI, and Madison Steele, editor-in-chief, organized the daylong event to address critical and interrelated issues in public health.
“We chose this topic for our symposium not just because these concepts make up what is denoted as health law. They also encompass farther-reaching socioeconomic and sociocultural factors present in every jurisdiction, including our Hoosier state,” Bojrab said in a news release.
Stephen Brown, the University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System’s director of preventive emergency medicine and senior director of social and behavioral health transformation and advocacy, will deliver the morning’s keynote address, “The Intersection of Homelessness & Health: A Public Health Issue.”
His address will be followed by panel discussions entitled “Accessing Housing” and “Housing First Model.”
An afternoon keynote address, “Best Practices to Protect Children from Lead Poisoning,” will be given by Carlton Waterhouse, professor of law and director of the Environmental and Climate Justice Center at Howard University School of Law.
There will also be another panel discussion, “Environmental Impacts on Housing,” that will be moderated by Chelsey Lang, IU McKinney J.D. candidate and executive managing editor of the Indiana Health Law Review Volume XXI.
By focusing on health, housing and the environment, the Indiana Health Law Review makes the argument that housing is a fundamental human right.
Minority communities are most often those experiencing the environmental impacts on housing, Steele said in a news release.
“I was personally inspired by this topic after learning about the IUPUI campus history of being on historic native lands, and Indianapolis’s long history of displacing black communities. It reminded me that housing is a fundamental human right, not just a mere commodity,” Steele said in a news release. “The symposium provides the platform to start a dialogue on this important topic.”
Registration is required for this event, which will be offered in person for 6.0 CLE credit hours (pending approval).
CEU Certificates for Indiana Behavioral Health & Human Services Providers are available. Certificates of attendance can be provided for those wishing to apply for CLE credit outside of Indiana.
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