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Professor Emily Benfer, ’05, presented a lecture titled, “Health Justice: A Framework (And Call to Action) for the Elimination of Health Inequality and Social Injustice,” on March 23 at IU McKinney. Her discussion was part of the Hall Center for Law and Health’s Grand Rounds series.

Professor Benfer is a clinical professor of law and Director of the Health Justice Project at Loyola University Chicago School of Law and Loyola University School of Medicine’s Department of Public Health. Her aim has always been to attempt to get at the social injustice roots of health inequality, she said. “Why were the people in the homeless shelters sick?” Benfer asked, thinking back to her days as a student working with the homeless. Her work also encompasses the high levels of lead in housing that’s available to the poor.

In the photo from left are Dean Andrew R. Klein, Professor Ross Silverman, Professor Emily Benfer, Professor Fran Quigley, Professor Florence Wagman Roisman, and Professor Nicolas Terry.