Consortium Holiday Reception
Join us to celebrate the end of the semester and catch up with our health law community! Food and beverages will be served. RSVP required here.
UCSF/UC Law SF Consortium on Law
Consortium Care Packages
Help us assemble 300 care packages for our unhoused neighbors and distribute them, along with 300 sleeping bags, right outside of UC Law SF. Bring your friends, family, and kids. All are welcome. Dinner and dessert are provided! Help make…
Law and Medicine Day
Join us to learn about current hot topics in law and healthcare, meet UCSF and UC Law students, and enjoy breakfast and lunch! You’ll hear from UC Law and UCSF professors and students and collaborate to evaluate cases with a medical-legal perspective.
Materials for Health Care Segregation: Exposing Modern Day Jim Crow
April 15, 2024
Please find links to presentations below. — This day-long symposium will bring together lawyers, historians, clinicians, social scientists, community members, and policymakers to expose modern day health care segregation and begin to build partnerships to dismantle segregated health care.
Complex Care Workshop Documents
February 6, 2024
Please see below for the documents from our workshop on Friday 2/9. Advance Care Planning Presentation Advance Designation of Representative Payee SSA Form Avoiding Conservatorship Presentation California Advance Health Care Directive Template Conservatorship Alternatives DCA Advance Care Planning Handout Housing Presentation Paid…
Consortium Advisory Board: Call for Applications
January 19, 2024
The UCSF-UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy invites applications for its inaugural advisory board. Consortium Advisory Board members serve 2-year terms and provide collaborative consultation, input and advice to the Consortium Executive Director and core Consortium staff on the strategic direction and programs of the…
Consortium Health Justice Series: Call for Applications
January 19, 2024
Consortium Health Justice Series The UCSF-UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy invites funding proposals for events, conferences, workshops on topics related to health justice. Proposals may range in amount from $250-$20,000 and can be submitted by any member of the community interested in designing and…
The MEND Project
July 31, 2023
The MEND Project California has passed a new law (SB464) that requires hospital-based perinatal clinicians to receive implicit bias training, with the goal of improving care and outcomes for Black birthing people in particular. This project has engaged Black birthing people, perinatal clinicians,…
Bench to School Initiative
July 31, 2023
Bench to School Initiative The California Bench to School Initiative (B2S) was established by the California Legislature in June of 2021 as a collaboration between UC Law SF, UCSF, and the UCLA School of Education. This initiative aims to disrupt the school to…
Statewide Medical-Legal Learning Collaborative
July 31, 2023
Statewide Medical-Legal Learning Collaborative The Dementia Care Aware Medical-Legal Learning Collaborative is a new statewide initiative that aims to improve care for underserved Californians with cognitive impairment. This Collaborative is embedded within a broader effort known as Dementia Care Aware (dementiacareaware.org), led…
April 16 Webinar on COVID-Related Advance Care Planning
April 14, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has created an increased and urgent need for advance care planning, a process through which people document the treatment they want to receive if they become unable to make medical decisions for themselves. This is an area where medical-legal partnerships, such as the Medical-Legal Partnership for…
UC Law SF Receives Grant to Continue Critical Legal Services for Senior Veterans
June 25, 2019
Joseph, a homebound Korean War veteran, lost access to Medi-Cal and in-home care after a lengthy hospitalization. Unable to care for himself at home, the 90-year-old’s health further declined until he was referred by his physician to the Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors (MLPS) at UC Law SF. MLPS advocates…