Leadership & Project Initiatives

The National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership takes seriously our commitment to attracting, promoting and cultivating leadership in the health and legal communities.  We are constantly seeking new ways to engage leaders in the Medical-Legal Partnership Network.

We are coordinating an MLP Leadership Program with an anticipated started date of 2011.  Check back for more details.

Since its inception in 2006, the National Center has fostered many leadership opportunities, some on-going, including:

• NCMLP's Medical Advisory Board
• MLP Capitol Hill Day
• MLP Research and Evaluation Meeting

NCMLP also supports MLP Legal Fellows and is proud that several MLP Medical Directors have been chosen as Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellows.

Medical Advisory Board

The National Center formed a National Medical Advisory Board to cultivate richer healthcare involvement in medical-legal partnership and support current and future physicians and health care leaders in advocacy in a broad range of clinical settings.   Board members serve a one-year term and nominations are accepted every January.

Board members are recruited from medical-legal partnerships nationwide for their commitment to advocating for vulnerable populations. They represent pediatrics, family medicine, internal medicine, oncology and geriatrics and bring expertise in various components of successful medical-legal partnership.  Board members embody a full range of clinical perspectives and are doctors, nurses, social workers and public health leaders.

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MLP Capitol Hill Day

In March 2010, medical-legal partnership teams representing 17 states met with nearly 70 members of Congress and staff on Capitol Hill to educate them about MLP and its positive impact on vulnerable populations across the country. The response was overwhelmingly positive. Members and their staff were eager to support the work of local partnerships and the MLP Network, a testament to the important and valuable services MLPs provide.

In the months leading up to Capitol Hill Day, the National Center worked with policy consultants to prepare MLP teams -- hosting webinars and trainings on how to prepare client stories and reach out to Congressional Representatives and Senators.

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Research and Evaluation Meeting

In September 2010, the National Center hosted a research and evaluation meeting that brought research and policy experts together with several members of the MLP Network.  Legal and healthcare partners from across the MLP Network presented on studies being conducted at their local MLPs, and participants discussed the future of MLP research and evaluation and its potential impact on policy.

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MLP Legal Fellows

Funded by independent organizations, MLP legal fellows serve for one to two years in various capacities within the Medical-Legal Partnership Network.  Fellows are critical to the daily operation and success of many MLPs across the country, some of which were established by fellows during their fellowship periods.

In 2010, NCMLP started a new project to better connect current and past MLP Legal Fellows.

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Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellows

Each year, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation selects Health Policy Fellows to utilize their wide range of academic, public health, clinical and community-based experience to provide health policy leadership on Capitol Hill to improve health and health care during a 12-month fellowship in Washington, D.C.

Dr. David Keller (from the Family Advocates of Central Massachusetts in Worcester, MA) and Dr. Shale Wong (from the Colorado Medical-Legal Partnership in Denver, CO) were selected as two of ten RWJF Health Policy Fellows for 2009-2010.

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