HPL Events & Webinars

Join us for a lecture from Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights at the University of Pennsylvania. Her pathbreaking work in law and public policy focuses on urgent social justice issues in policing, family regulation, and bioethics. Her lecture will draw from her latest book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build A Safer World (Basic Books, 2022).

Hear more information about our M.S. in Health Policy & Law!  Featuring our Co-Directors, Associate Director, and a current HPL student.

This event features Professors Radhika Rao, Jennifer Oliva, and Beth Ribet discussing the leaked draft opinion and its significance for reproductive health access and health care.

Sponsored by Repair, and co-sponsored by the Center for Racial & Economic Justice at UC-Hastings School of Law, the Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy at UC-San Francisco & UC-Hastings, and the Critical Race Studies Program at UCLA School of Law, this 80-minute panel delineates the potential for conservatorships and guardianships to function as a way to exert control, perpetrate abuse, and drain the finances of vulnerable elders and persons with disabilities.

Featuring testimony from Venus Gist and Kennett Taylor, both loved ones of victims of conservatorship abuse, as well as commentary from journalist Tanya Dennis and policy advocate Rick Black.

Presented by the UCSF/UC Law SF Consortium and the Center for Racial and Economic Justice 

Communities of color in the United States have been hardest hit by the COVID-19 pandemic, yet they are being severely under-allocated life-saving vaccines. Join us for this 60-minute panel discussion on the role that racism has played in vaccine distribution in the U.S.

Featuring panelists Ayanna Bennett, MD, Director, SFDPH Office of Health Equity, Govind Persad, JD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Sturm College of Law, and Ebony Jade Hilton, MD, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Virginia. Moderated by Dorit Reiss, Phd, Professor of Law, UC Law SF. 

UC Law SF Indigenous Law Center (UCH-ILC) hosts its inaugural panel event, co-sponsored by the UCSF-UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy and moderated by UCH-ILC Faculty Director Jo Carrillo.

Learn how COVID-19 has impacted Native and Indigenous communities from the following panelists: Agnes Attakai, Center for Rural Health, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Notah Begay III, Navajo/San Felipe/Isleta, Founder NB3 Foundation, 4-time PGA tour winner, Stanford Athletic Hall of Fame, Analyst NBC Sports/Golf Channel, Matthew Fletcher, Foundation Professor of Law and Director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center at Michigan State University College of Law, Jonathan Nez, President of the Navajo Nation, and Sriram Shamasunder, Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF and co-founder and faculty director of the HEAL Initiative. 

Presented by the UCSF/UC Law SF Consortium and the Center for Racial and Economic Justice

Police killings of unarmed Black people as they go about their daily lives was once again on display in 2020 with the killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and Rayshard Brooks among others. The ensuing racial justice uprisings, amid the COVID pandemic, have highlighted longstanding social and health inequities in the United States. Police violence is a significant contributor to racial health disparities and a threat to public health. Not only do unjust murders and acts of violence cause immediate physical harm to individual victims, but the sustained threat of death and violence on Black people over their lifetime exacts an emotional and physiological toll, which also adversely affects health outcomes. This panel explores the intersection between police violence and racial health disparities and the steps that could be taken to address the structural factors contributing to this public health problem.

Featuring panelists Osagie Obasogie, Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Bioethics, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, Priscilla Ocen, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School, Rhea Boyd, Director of Strategy and Equity, California Children’s Trust, Brandon Greene, Racial and Economic Justice Director, ACLU Northern California, and Pam Ward, Member of the Speaker Bureau, San Mateo County Health. Moderated by Anansi Wilson, Adjunct Faculty and Affiliated Scholar, UC Law SF. 

Our annual Law and Medicine day, co-hosted with UCSF and the Stanford School of Medicine, where medical students from UCSF and law students from Hastings discuss medical, legal and ethical issues. This year’s focus was race, social justice, and health.