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For the past three years, the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School has been engaged in a groundbreaking collaboration on brain injury and legal rights with the Consortium for the Advanced Study of Brain Injury (CASBI)

The 2017-2018 academic year brings major growth to the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School, welcoming new and returning key staff, affiliates, and faculty.

A new bill was introduced to Congress on December 5, 2016 that would establish the first ever congressional analogue to the federal judicial clerkship.

Katherine L. Kraschel has joined the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School as the new Executive Director.

Yale Solomon Center for Health Law & Policy affiliate Bonnie Kaplan, PhD, FACMI, of the Yale Center for Medical Informatics, was the only American invited to present a main paper a conference at the Brocher Foundation in Switzerland in June.

With one of the most diverse Medical-Legal Partnerships programs in the country, lawyers, doctors, and Yale Law students are working to identify the social determinants of health.

On June 1, 2017, the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy at Yale Law School hosted a Boston-Area Alumni Breakfast on “Health Reform, Law and Policy under the Trump Administration” at the office of Ropes & Gray.

Attorney Sharon Pope, the legal supervisor at the Palliative Care Medical-Legal Partnership at Yale Law School, received the 2017 Hartford County Bar Association President’s Award for Excellence.

On April 10, 2017, the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy and the Yale Health Law & Policy Society hosted Brian Sullivan ’74, former Vice President and General Counsel of Capital Blue Cross, for a lunch talk on health insurance and the Affordable Care Act.

On April 20, 2017, the Solomon Center for Health Law and Policy, along with the Yale Health Law & Policy Society and the Career Development Office hosted the annual Alumni Careers in Health Law Event.