Salus Populi: February 27, 2026 Session Information

Salus Populi | Health Equity: How It Relates to the Courts 

• Friday, February 27 | Judicial Council of California, San Francisco, CA (in-person)  

 

The Salus Populi Health Equity: How it Relates to the Courts course offers a deeper look at racism as a social determinant of health. The course will explore the different mechanisms through which racism affects individual and population health, contributes to health inequities, interacts with other social determinants of health, and fosters other forms of structural discrimination to create health inequities.  Similarly to our other courses, this course will also teach practical steps judges can take to mitigate the judicial system’s adverse impact on health inequities.   

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There is no registration fee. Breakfast and lunch will be served. Travel and lodging will be provided. Travel reimbursement will be available for those within forty miles. Participants can earn continuing legal education credits. Please keep an eye out for an email from the Salus Populi team in December for assistance in helping get your travel and accommodations booked. 

 

Hotel and Transportation Information

Accommodations 

We have reserved a hotel block, more details to come. We will cover hotel room costs for the evening of February 26th, and will maintain a list to send to the hotel. They know to invoice us for your hotel room and tax. You will be asked for a credit card upon check-in to cover any incidentals and/or room service.  

Transportation

Salus Populi will book and pay for roundtrip transportation (flights, buses, or trains) for attendees coming from out of town. Please note that due to Northeastern University policy, we can only cover economy class travel. However, you are welcome to pay the difference to upgrade after your travel has been booked. We ask that you find your preferred flight, including airport, and send us the information through a website form in late December/early January. Once we receive this information, we will book travel on your behalf and forward you the confirmation email. 

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About the Program

Judges at all levels frequently encounter legal issues that relate to social factors, including housing, racism, and poverty, that shape the health of individuals and communities. Salus Populi is the nation’s first judicial education program dedicated to helping judges understand these social determinants of health as well as their relationship to judicial decision-making. The program, which has been developed by the Center for Health Policy and Law and the Institute for Health Equity and Social Justice Research at Northeastern University, with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will enable judges to more fully understand and analyze the upstream influences on health and their relevance to judicial decision-making, while also helping judges to become more informed consumers of epidemiological research.  

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We believe that you will find this course to be very relevant to your work, as well as fun and informative. We hope the opportunity to connect with judges in other jurisdictions will also prove valuable.