
How Public Health Departments and Medical-Legal Partnerships Can Collaborate to Strengthen Community Health Efforts
Law & Policy InsightsMedical-Legal PartnershipsMedical-legal partnership (MLP) attorneys are ideally situated to identify and define the contours of specific legal issues affecting a community’s health. MLPs can also play an important role in informing, guiding, and effectuating strategic legal changes to improve health at the population level. In addition to working with MLPs on public health law and policy initiatives, there are many additional opportunities for public health departments and MLPs to collaborate on a day-to-day basis.