Health Law Interest Group
The Health Law Interest Group is open to all law, LL.M., medical,
graduate, and undergraduate students. The Group sponsors speakers
and seminars in the health law field throughout the year and
organizes social activities with medical and other graduate students.
Department
of Public Health Sciences
By assembling a multidisciplinary team and combining the expertise of the basic
clinical sciences of biostatistics, clinical epidemiology, health services research,
and informatics, the Department aims to provide a better understanding of the
relationships among biologic discoveries, patient and population characteristics, treatment options, public health interventions, systems, and outcomes.
Center
for Biomedical Ethics
The Center's mission is to advance education, research,
and service concerning moral values in health care. The Center's
faculty works both individually and in research teams on problems
in clinical ethics, the ethics of research involving human subjects,
ethics and genetics, health care organization ethics, and the history
of bioethics.
Center
for Global Health
The Center cultivates and promotes
interdisciplinary activities to support Global Health that involve
the collaboration of departments, centers, as well as professionals
and students from across the university. The Center is
dedicated to alleviating diseases of poverty.
Institute on Aging
The Institute aims to enrich the lives of those who are old
today and those who will be old tomorrow by acting as a catalyst
and coordinator for interdisciplinary research, education, and
service programs within the University.
Institute of
Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy
The Institute offers training, educational,
research, and service programs in the areas of forensic psychiatry,
forensic psychology, and mental health law. Affiliated with
the University's Law School, School of Medicine,
and its College of Arts & Sciences,
the Institute has an interdisciplinary faculty of attorneys,
psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers. Its Forensic
Psychiatry Clinic performs clinical evaluations in a wide variety
of civil and criminal cases. The Institute conducts training
programs for the Virginia Department of Mental Health, Mental
Retardation, and Substance Abuse Services and provides continuing
education for attorneys and judges. The institute also conducts
extensive empirical and theoretical research in clinical criminology,
forensic psychiatry/psychology, and mental health law and policy.
Institute
for Practical Ethics and Public Life
The Institute fosters scholarship,
education, and research in practical ethics. To this end, the Institute
provides an intellectual home for faculty and students from across
the University who wish to pursue interdisciplinary scholarship,
research, and teaching on the complex ethical issues that underline
contemporary professions, organizations, and public policy. Additionally,
the Institute aims to connect, create and support programs in practical
ethics throughout the University and thus create a model for ethics
as an integral part of undergraduate, graduate, and professional
education.
Center on Health Disparities
The Center focuses on interdisciplinary and multi-institutional research and interventions to reduce health disparities.
School of
Medicine
The School of Medicine is a nationally recognized, medium-sized
school with balanced programs of undergraduate and graduate medical
education and with biomedical research programs nationally recognized
for their stature and productivity. Law students have the opportunity
to interact with faculty, residents, and students from many departments
in the medical school, including the Department
of Public Health Sciences and the Center
for Global Health.
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