Emily A. Benfer

George Washington University - Law School

Associate Professor of Clinical Law; Director of the Health Equity Policy & Advocacy Clinic

2000 H Street, N.W.

Washington, DC 20052

United States

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1.

Expiring Eviction Moratoriums and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality

Kathryn M Leifheit, Sabriya L Linton, Julia Raifman, Gabriel L Schwartz, Emily A Benfer, Frederick J Zimmerman, Craig Evan Pollack, Expiring Eviction Moratoriums and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality, American Journal of Epidemiology, 2021;, kwab196, https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwab196
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 30 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2021
Kathryn M. Leifheit, Sabriya L. Linton, Julia Raifman, Gabriel Schwartz, Emily A. Benfer, Frederick J Zimmerman and Craig Pollack
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University - Bloomberg School of Public Health, Boston University, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) - Institute for Health Policy Studies, George Washington University - Law School, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Johns Hopkins University - Bloomberg School of Public Health
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COVID-19; Pandemic; SARS-CoV-2; housing; health; moratoriums; moratoria; eviction; homelessness; health equity; health justice; health inequity; policy; housing instability

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Eviction, Health Inequity, and the Spread of COVID-19: Housing Policy as a Primary Pandemic Mitigation Strategy

Journal of Urban Health (2020)
Number of pages: 12 Posted: 25 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 03 Jun 2024
Emily A. Benfer, David Vlahov, Marissa Long, Evan Walker-Wells, J.L. Pottenger, Gregg Gonsalves and Danya Keene
George Washington University - Law School, Yale University - Yale School of Nursing, Columbia University - Mailman School of Public Health, Yale University, Law School, Yale University - Law School, Yale University - Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases and Yale University - School of Medicine
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COVID-19; Pandemic; SARS-CoV-2; housing; health; eviction; homelessness; health equity; health justice; health inequity; policy; housing instability

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Health Justice Strategies to Combat the Pandemic: Eliminating Discrimination, Poverty, and Health Disparities During and After COVID-19

19 Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics 122 (2020)
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 28 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 26 May 2023
Emily A. Benfer, Seema Mohapatra, Lindsay F. Wiley and Ruqaiijah Yearby
George Washington University - Law School, SMU Dedman School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - School of Law and Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University
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health, COVID, COVID-19, pandemic, coronavirus, health justice, race, racial justice, discrimination, employment, health care, housing, eviction, minority, health disparity, inequality, civil rights

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Health Justice: A Framework (and Call to Action) for the Elimination of Health Inequity and Social Injustice

American University Law Review, Vol. 65, No. 2, 2015
Number of pages: 79 Posted: 12 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2017
Emily A. Benfer
George Washington University - Law School
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health, justice, inequity, health disparity, equity, injustice, poverty, social justice, social determinants of health, discrimination, segregation, implicit bias, environmental, lead poisoning, asthma, adverse childhood experiences, food insecurity, eviction, abuse neglect

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Approaches to Eviction Prevention

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 06 Aug 2020
Emily A. Benfer, Solomon J. Greene and Margaret Hagan
George Washington University - Law School, The Urban Institute and Stanford Legal Design Lab
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COVID-19, Pandemic, Housing, Eviction, Health, Foreclosure, Recession

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Contaminated Childhood: How the United States Failed to Prevent the Chronic Lead Poisoning of Low-Income Children and Communities of Color

Harvard Environmental Law Review, 2017
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 01 Jun 2017 Last Revised: 09 Aug 2017
Emily A. Benfer
George Washington University - Law School
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Lead Poisoning, Environmental Racism, Public Health, Minority, Social Determinants of Health, Federally Assisted Housing

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Public Health Amici Curiae Brief in Support of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Eviction Moratorium

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 12 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2020
Emily A. Benfer, J.L. Pottenger, Richard Tenenbaum, Wingo Smith, Emilia Todd, Salvatore Minopoli, Patrick Monaghan, Jacqui Oesterblad, Evan Walker-Wells and Logan Wren
George Washington University - Law School, Yale University - Law School, Yale University - Law School, Southern Poverty Law Center, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Yale University, Law School, Yale University, Law School, Yale University, Law School, Yale University, Law School and Yale University, Law School
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Health Justice Strategies to Eradicate Lead Poisoning: an Urgent Call to Action to Safeguard Future Generations

Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, Vol. 19, No. 2, 2020
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 15 Sep 2020 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2020
Emily A. Benfer, Emily Coffey, Allyson E. Gold, Mona Hanna-Attisha, Bruce P. Lanphear, Helen Y. Li, Ruth Ann Norton, David Rosner and Kate Walz
George Washington University - Law School, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, Wake Forest University - School of Law, Michigan State University, University of British Columbia (UBC) - BC Children's Hospital and Child & Family Research Institute, Connecticut Legal Services, Green & Healthy Homes Initiative, Columbia University - Mailman School of Public Health and Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
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There's No Place Like Home: Reshaping Community Interventions and Policies to Eliminate Environmental Hazards and Improve Population Health for Low-Income and Minority Communities

Harvard Law & Policy Review, Vol. 11, No. 2, 2017, U of Alabama Legal Studies Research Paper No. 3006099
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 24 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 29 Sep 2017
Emily A. Benfer and Allyson E. Gold
George Washington University - Law School and Wake Forest University - School of Law
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social determinants of health, asthma, lead poisoning, cancer, healthy homes, health communities, health justice, health in all policies, environmental justice, housing, special education

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Educating the Invincibles: Strategies for Teaching the Millennial Generation in Law School

Clinical Law Review Vol 20:301, Fall 2013, Loyola University Chicago School of Law Research Paper No. 2013-021
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 28 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2015
Emily A. Benfer and Colleen F. Shanahan
George Washington University - Law School and Columbia University - Law School
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clinical teaching, pedagogy, Gen Y, Millennial, Generation

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The ADA Amendments Act of 2008

Texas Journal on Civil Liberties and Civil Rights, Vol. 13, pp. 187-240, 2008, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 12-130
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 12 Sep 2012
Chai Feldblum, Kevin M. Barry and Emily A. Benfer
Georgetown University Law Center, Quinnipiac University - School of Law and George Washington University - Law School
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ADA, disablilities, Supreme Court, Congress, ADA Restoration Act, civil rights law, disability law

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Lead Laws and Environmental Justice in New York

The New York Environmental Lawyer, Vol. 39, No. 1, Fall/Winter 2019
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 10 Dec 2019
Katrina Korfmacher, Emily A. Benfer and Matthew Chachere
University of Rochester, George Washington University - Law School and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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health, housing, environmental, justice, social determinants of health, lead poisoning, neurotoxin, law

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Housing is Health: Prioritizing Health Justice and Equity in the U.S. Eviction System

YALE JOURNAL OF HEALTH POLICY, LAW, AND ETHICS 2024
Number of pages: 85 Posted: 03 Jun 2024
Emily A. Benfer
George Washington University - Law School
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housing, eviction, health, equity, health equity, health justice, social determinants of health, racial equity, structural determinant of health, racial disparity, structural racism

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Educating the Next Generation of Health Leaders: Medical-Legal Partnership and Interprofessional Graduate Education

Journal of Legal Medicine, 2014, Loyola University Chicago School of Law Research Paper No. 2013-019
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 21 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 20 May 2020
Emily A. Benfer
George Washington University - Law School
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medical legal partnership, clinic, interprofessional, interdisciplinary, health law, public interest, poverty, low-income, social determinants of health

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Medical-Legal Partnership: Lessons from Five Diverse MLPs in New Haven, Connecticut

The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 46 (2018)
Number of pages: 8 Posted: 19 Nov 2018
Emily A. Benfer, Abbe R. Gluck and Katherine Kraschel
George Washington University - Law School, Yale University - Law School and Northeastern University - School of Law
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Advancing Health Law & Social Justice in the Clinic, the Classroom and the Community

Annals of Health Law, Vol. 21, p. 237, 2012, Roger Williams Univ. Legal Studies Paper No. 127
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 11 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2015
Emily A. Benfer, John J. Ammann, Lisa Bliss, Sylvia Caley, Liz Tobin-Tyler and Robert Pettignano
George Washington University - Law School, Saint Louis University - School of Law, Georgia State University - College of Law, Georgia State University College of Law, Brown University - School of Public Health and Alpert Medical School and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
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Duty to Protect: Enhancing the Federal Framework to Prevent Childhood Lead Poisoning and Exposure to Environmental Harm

Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, Vol. 18, No. 2, 2019
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 26 Jun 2019
Emily A. Benfer, Emily Coffey, Allyson E. Gold, Mona Hanna-Attisha, Bruce P. Lanphear, Helen Y. Li, Ruth Ann Norton, David Rosner and Kate Walz
George Washington University - Law School, Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, Wake Forest University - School of Law, Michigan State University, University of British Columbia (UBC) - BC Children's Hospital and Child & Family Research Institute, Connecticut Legal Services, Green & Healthy Homes Initiative, Columbia University - Mailman School of Public Health and Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law
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lead poisoning, social determinants of health, federal government, public health, housing,

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In the Best Interests of the Child?: An International Human Rights Analysis of the Treatment of Unaccompanied Minors in Australia and the United States

Indiana University International & Comparative Law Review, Vol 14, 2004
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 22 Oct 2013
Emily A. Benfer
George Washington University - Law School
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best interest of child, human rights, unaccompanied minor, deportation, Australia, international

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The Health Justice Project: Interdisciplinary Advocacy to Overcome Social Determinants of Health

Canadian Journal of Poverty Law, 2012
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 21 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 15 Jul 2016
Emily A. Benfer, Allyson E. Gold and April Schweitzer
George Washington University - Law School, Wake Forest University - School of Law and Loyola University Chicago, School of Law, Students
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clinic, interprofessional, interdisciplinary, health, justice

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Adaptive Clinical Teaching

Clinical Law Review, Vol. 19, pp. 517-553, 2013, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 13-025
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 17 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2013
Colleen F. Shanahan and Emily A. Benfer
Columbia University - Law School and George Washington University - Law School
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legal education, clinical teaching, legal educators

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Setting the Health Justice Agenda: Addressing Health Inequity & Injustice in the Post-Pandemic Clinic

Clinical Law Review, Vol. 28, Fall 2021, Pp. 45-84., U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2021-24, Georgetown University Law Center Research Paper No. Forthcoming, (2021). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 2395.
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 27 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 16 Feb 2024
Emily A. Benfer, James Bhandary-Alexander, Yael Cannon, Medha D. Makhlouf and Tomar Pierson-Brown
George Washington University - Law School, Yale Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, Pennsylvania State University, Dickinson Law and University of Pittsburgh - School of Law
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clinical education, legal education, health justice, health equity, public health, health disparities, racial justice

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The ADA Amendments Act: An Overview of Recent Changes to the Americans with Disabilities Act

American Constitution Society Advance, 2009
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 20 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 10 Dec 2013
Emily A. Benfer
George Washington University - Law School
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disability, americans with disabilities act, ADA

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The Health Justice Project: A Collaborative Commitment to Solving Real World Problems

Indiana Health Law Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2012
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 22 Oct 2013
Emily A. Benfer
George Washington University - Law School
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poverty, justice, health, interprofessional, interdisciplinary, clinic, health disparities, social determinants of health

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Interdisciplinary Health Partnership between Graduate Schools and Host Communities

Town and Gown: Effective Legal Strategies Promoting Cooperation Between Institutions of Higher Education and Their Host Municipalities, 2013, Loyola University Chicago School of Law Research Paper No. 2013-018
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 20 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 18 Dec 2013
Emily A. Benfer
George Washington University - Law School
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medical-legal partnership, interprofessional, interdisciplinary, health, justice, low-income, poverty

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Foreward Symposium: Theory and Praxis in Reducing Women's Poverty

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, Vol. 20, No. 4, 2012
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 22 Oct 2013 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2019
Emily A. Benfer, Davida Finger and Annette Ruth Appell
George Washington University - Law School, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law and Washington University in St. Louis - School of Law
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women, poverty