COVID-19 as Disability Interest Convergence?
During the pandemic, disability rights have been negotiable and vulnerable to sacrifice in service of the needs of able-bodied, neurotypical people.

During the pandemic, disability rights have been negotiable and vulnerable to sacrifice in service of the needs of able-bodied, neurotypical people.

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the shortcomings of our current disability laws and policies, particularly those related to economic insecurity.

Researchers and advocates have long-documented the disparate punishment and policing of BIPOC students compared to their white peers.

We encourage Congress to pass recently introduced legislation that allocates funding to the development of Medical-Legal Partnerships.

To us, health justice means change. Not cosmetic or peripheral change, but wide-scale, systemic change.

Rather than simply recognizing the existence of social determinants of health, we must do the hard work to create and re-create systems.

Well-being and ill-being can be measured in many ways, but health is a fundamental part of the picture and is inextricably intertwined with justice.

Healing processes can operationalize the three components of the health justice framework to address the trauma of medical racism.

We can pave the way for our students to lead hospitals, courthouses, and statehouses in a collaborative pursuit of health justice.

This blog post applies the health justice lens to inequities in immigrant health and access to health care.
