Creating Health Equity: Transformational Opportunities in a Post-Pandemic World

UIC Law’s 26th Annual Belle R. & Joseph H. Braun Memorial Symposium will explore broad transformational opportunities and local implementation solutions to advance health equity, with a focus on the role of law. Throughout the day, we’ll integrate personal narratives and collective initiatives to chart a path toward systemic change that alters the power structures that shape our current reality.

Our full symposium schedule will be available soon. The featured speakers below are only a few of the experts joining us for these critical discussions.

Featured Speakers

• Sen. Omar Aquino (D-2nd District), Majority Caucus Whip, Illinois Senate
• Dr. Allison Arwady, Commissioner, Chicago Department of Public Health
• Dr. Paula Braveman, Professor of Family Medicine; Director, Center on Social Disparities in Health, University of California, San Francisco
• Juliet K. Choi, President; Chief Executive Officer, Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum
• Brietta R. Clark, Professor of Law; J. Rex Dibble Fellow, Loyola Marymount University Law School
• Dr. Ngozi Ezike, Director, Illinois Department of Public Health
• Sarah de Guia, Chief Executive Officer, ChangeLabs Solutions
• Seema Mohapatra, Murray Visiting Professor of Law , SMU Dedman School of Law
• Toni Preckwinkle, President, Cook County Board of Commissioners
• Israel Rocha Jr., Chief Executive Officer, Cook County Health
• Sidney D. Watson, Jane and Bruce Robert Professor; Director, Center for Health Law Studies, Saint Louis University School of Law
• Mara Youdelman, Managing Attorney (Washington, DC), National Health Law Program

Organized by UIC Law’s Health Equity, Law & Policy Program