Northeastern Law’s Center for Health Policy and Law (CHPL) recently secured three major grants totaling $1.6 million to advance its public health and legal education leadership. “These generous gifts bolster our ability to help inform the judiciary about public health,” said Professor Wendy E. Parmet, faculty co-director of CHPL.

The Salus Populi project received its third grant from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation — this one for $600,000 over two years to support the nation’s first educational program training judges and lawyers on the social determinants of health. Salus Populi also received $600,000 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the nation’s largest philanthropic organization dedicated to health. Salus Populi will use the funding to expand course offerings for judges and build out bench cards — concise reference sheets judges can consult from the bench during hearings. Salus Populi is a collaboration between CHPL and Northeastern’s Bouvé College of Health Sciences.

A $400,000 two-year grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will support CHPL’s Amicus Project, which coordinates the filing of amicus briefs on behalf of public health and health equity in high-stakes litigation. The project also connects advocates and experts with lawyers and legal scholars and keeps public health advocates informed about critical litigation developments.