Advocacy-Health Alliances

- AHA

2012 Inaugural Advocacy Health Alliance Symposium

Medical Legal Partnerships feature three core activities: providing legal assistance in the healthcare setting, transforming health and legal institutions and their practices, and influencing policy change.  In Australia, MLP is in its infancy.  However, there are already several examples of legal services provided in partnership with health services and an emerging interest in adopting and adapting the MLP model for the Australian context.

The Symposium events were held in November of 2012 in Sydney, Heidelberg, Bendigo and Melbourne.

Key Note Speakers:

  • Dr Edward Paul, Director of Graduate Medical Education at Yuma Regional Medical Center
  • Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler, Director of Public Service and Community Partnerships at the Feinstein Institute and Lecturer at Roger Williams University
  • Pascoe Pleasence, Professor of Empirical Legal Studies at the University College, London
  • Dr. Christine Coumarelos, Principal Researcher at Law and Justice Foundation, NSW

  • Peter Noble, Coordinator & Legal Practitioner, Loddon Campaspe Community Legal Centre

Symposium Panelists

  • Acting on the Warning Signs,
  • Baker & McKenzie Cancer Patients' Legal Clinic at Melbourne's Peter MacCallum Cancer Institute,
  • NSW Cancer Council Legal Referral Service,
  • Scott Burris,
  • The First Step Program,
  • Victorian Legal Aid Disability and Advocacy Team, and;
  • West Heidelberg Community Legal Service.

Event Reports

 

The Symposium Program is available to view on the event page. Presentations are also available.

For further information about Advocacy Health Alliances, please contact PILCH.

Contact

03 8636 4400 

ahasymposium@pilch.org.au 

 

The Advocacy Health Alliance was proudly supported by:

  • Loddon Campaspe Community Legal Centre, 
  • Public Interest Law Clearing House
  • La Trobe University 
  • Clayton Utz Foundation
  • Baker McKenzie 
  • Victorian Legal Aid