The UCSF / UC Hastings Consortium is dedicated to improving interdisciplinary communication and collaboration between the law and health sciences. We seek to institute and support broad-based initiatives in education, research and service. The Consortium's objectives are basic in form, but with potentially profound implications. UCSF and UC Hastings have combined their considerable talents and resources and directed them at the juncture where law and the health sciences meet, with the concomitant aims of better informing the law regarding the health sciences and better enabling the health sciences to serve the public good.
This panel will cover the broad issue of geographical food deserts, usually urban areas inhabited by mostly-poor people whose transportation and finances are limited, where food sellers are predominantly small stores that cannot stock a wide variety of fresh food items, and where full-service grocery stores hesitate to locate. Are there policies (such as those in zoning rules) that could be changed to enable oases in these food deserts? What impact does, for example, the addition of a full-ser...
Dr. David A. Kessler, BA, MD, JD, served as Commissioner of the United States Food and Drug Administration from 1990 to 1997. He has served as Dean of the Yale School of Medicine and as Dean of the School of Medicine and Vice-Chancellor at UCSF. He currently is Professor of Pediatrics and Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF. He is the author of The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite (2009). More on Food Day at UC Hastings can be found here: http://ucsf-hasti...
Susan Berke Fogel JD Director, Reproductive Health National Health Law Program Event Description: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act holds the promise of improving the health and well-being of the nation. The structures that are being developed will be critical to a sustainable system that provides not just "coverage" but access to quality health services. At the same time, anti-reform lawsuits are moving through the courts. California is one of the first states to establish a heal...
The Misuse of Science in Abortion RestrictionsTracy Weitz, PhDUCSF Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health
Women’s Health and Empowerment: Trans-disciplinary Teaching, Research, and Advocacy in the New UC Global Health Institute Amy Levi, NM, PhD and Lara Stemple, J.D
Tracey Woodruff, PhDUCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment10/26/10