Join the Health Law and Policy Program and experts for our annual symposium. This year, we explore the question “Is the Constitution bad for your health?” In doing so, we will grapple with the use—or lack thereof—of empirical data to resolve constitutional questions on three key issues: guns rights, reproductive rights, and affirmative action. Please Register.

Agenda

Coffee and Continental Breakfast | 8:30 - 9 am

Introductions | 9 - 9:20 am

Panel 1: SFFA v. Harvard/UNC and Racial Diversity | 9:20 - 10:15 am

• Moderator: Dayna Bowen Matthew, Dean, GW Law
• Ivory Achebe Toldson, Professor, Howard University
• Yalda Jabbarpour, Director, Robert Graham Center 
• Edward Salsberg, Health Workforce Diversity Initiative, GWU

Break

Panel 2: Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health and Reproductive Rights | 10:30 am - Noon

• Moderator: Mark Joseph Stern, Slate
• Sara Imershein, GW Medicine
• Julia Strasser, Director of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health, GW Public Health
• Sonia Suter, GW Law
• Tracy Weitz, AU

Lunch | 12:15 - 1:15 pm

Keynote Address: LaQuandra Nesbitt, Executive Director of the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences Center for Population Health Sciences and Equity

Panel 3: Bruen v. New York and the 2nd Amendment | 1:30 - 2:45 pm

• Moderator: Julie Appleby, KHN
• Robert Cottrol, GW Law
• Wendy Ellis, Center for Community Resilience, Institute for Racial, Ethnic, and Socioeconomic Equity, GWU
• Joan Meier, GW Law
• Michael Ulrich, BU School of Public Health

Sara Rosenbaum Commentary | 2:45 - 3:15 pm

Reception | 3:15 - 4 pm