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Legal need as a social determinant of health

It is well recognised that there are many factors beyond healthcare that contribute to people’s health, and health inequity, including the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age. These are the social determinants of health.

But what role do legal and justice systems play in people’s health? And how can we use the law more strategically in the pursuit of health equity?

Join Sir Michael Marmot and Professor Sharon Friel, some of the world’s leading thinkers on the social determinants of health inequity, in a conversation with Dr Tessa Boyd-Caine about legal need as a social determinant of health and justice as an institution for impact on health inequity.

Panellists

Sir Michael Marmot

Sir Michael Marmot has been Professor of Epidemiology at University College London since 1985. He is the author of The Health Gap: the challenge of an unequal world (Bloomsbury: 2015), and Status Syndrome: how your place on the social gradient directly affects your health (Bloomsbury: 2004). Professor Marmot is the Advisor to the WHO Director-General, on social determinants of health, in the new WHO Division of Healthier Populations. He is a Distinguished Visiting Professorship at Chinese University of Hong Kong, and is the recipient of the WHO Global Hero Award.

Sharon Friel

Sharon Friel is an ARC Laureate Fellow, Professor of Health Equity and Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Governance at the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet), Australian National University. She was Director of RegNet from 2014-2019. Prof Friel is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences Australia and co-Director of the NHMRC Centre for Research Excellence in Health Equity. She was the Head of the Scientific Secretariat (University College London) of the World Health Organisation Commission on Social Determinants of Health between 2005 and 2008.

Dr Tessa Boyd-Caine

Tessa is the founding CEO of Health Justice Australia, established in 2016 as the national centre of excellence for health justice partnership. Originally a criminologist, she has worked in health, criminal justice and human rights organisations in Australia and internationally. She was previously Deputy CEO of the Australian Council of Social Service and was the inaugural Fulbright Professional Scholar in Nonprofit Leadership.

With an opening by Ashley Schram, Braithwaite Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) and Deputy Director of the Menzies Centre for Health Governance.

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