Legal Determinants of Health Conference: From Incarceration to Accommodation

UCSF

UCSF Wayne and Gladys Valley Center for Vision Address: 490 Illinois St., San Francisco, CA

October 24, 2024 — October 25, 2024

Co-Sponsors: Brian Dolan (UCSF) and Juliet McMullin (UC Irvine) | This event was supported by UCOP Grant ID: M23PR5992

This symposium was held in person from October 24, 2024 — October 25, 2024 in San Francisco, CA.

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Agenda - October 25th

Breakfast | 8:00 – 9:00 am

INCARCERATION AND HEALTH | 9:00 – 10:30 am

• Brian Dolan, PhD (UCSF)

  • Topic: how institutional review boards grappled with the ethics of human experimentation on incarcerated individuals

• Jennifer James, PhD, MS, MSW (UCSF)

  • Topic: incarceration as a bioethical crisis

• Keramet Reiter, JD, PhD (UC Irvine), Dallas Augustine, PhD (SJSU), Justin Strong, PhD (SJSU)

  • Topic: The lived experience of solitary confinement and efforts of reform in Washington State

LAW AND REGULATION OF HEALTH | 10:30 – 12:00

• Katherine Peeler, MD, MA, FAAP (Harvard)

  • Topic: solitary confinement in ICE detention and the health and health rights of relief-seeking immigrants in the U.S.

• Yajaira Ceciliano-Navarro, PhD (University of Houston)

  • Topic: Impact of incarceration and deportation on nuclear and extended families

• Beth Ribet, PhD, JD (UC Law, San Francisco and UCLA)

  • Topic: "Disabling Torts", which contemplates the prospects for expanding current conceptions of torts claims to better capture the ways in which tortious injuries create vulnerability to disability discrimination, for which a tort-feasor (the defendant) could be partially liable

Lunch | 12:00 – 1:00 pm

BEYOND THE ADA: THE LAW AND HEALTHCARE ACCESSIBILITY | 1:00 – 2:00 pm

• Katherine A. Macfarlane, JD (Syracuse University College of Law)

  • Topic: “Self-Accommodation, ” through which people with disabilities forego the formal accommodation process and try to make things work on their own

• Megan Moodie, PhD (UCSC – MRPI member)

  • Topic: A Series of Unfortunate Intents: Lessons on the medicalization of disability from the UC system