2025 Public Health Law Conference

CHLP Staff Attorneys Kae Greenberg and Sean McCormick will be presenting at the 2025 Public Health Law Conference organized by The Network for Public Health Law. 

Through the Intersections: Criminalization, Public Health, and the Road Forward
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, at 2:45 PM PT

This session will focus on the consequences of the heightened criminalization of People Living with HIV (PLHIV), including the impact of collateral consequences post-release on health outcomes and service accessibility. HIV criminalization will serve as a case study for broader criminalization-based approaches, emphasizing the importance of coalition-based strategies to overcome criminalization and enable compassionate public health solutions, such as harm reduction.

Speakers: 

• Kerry Thomas, Community Decriminalization Strategist, Sero Project
• John Card, J.D., Staff Attorney, Health Law and Policy Clinic, Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School
• Kae Greenberg, Esq., Staff Attorney, Center for HIV Law and Policy
• Sean McCormick, Esq., Staff Attorney, Positive Justice Project, Center for HIV Law and Policy
   

Disability Justice: Novel Approaches to Using the Americans with Disabilities Act to Protect the Rights of People Living with Disabilities and Promote Public Health
Wednesday, September 17, 2025, at 1:45 PM PT
This session will explain the historical and ongoing discrimination against people living with disabilities and explore its convergence with other forms of oppression. Speakers will provide innovative legal strategies to address discrimination against people living with HIV and those with substance use disorders, as well as steps for using these approaches to protect the rights of people living with stigmatized conditions and promote public health.

Speakers: 

• Bianca Laureano, Ph.D, M.A., C.S.E., C.S.E.S., Foundress, ANTE UP!
• Milo Inglehart, J.D., Staff Attorney, Transgender Law Center (TLC)
• Amelia Caramadre, Esq., M.P.H., Attorney, Kaplan & Grady
• Sean McCormick, J.D., Staff Attorney, Positive Justice Project, Center for HIV Law and Policy (CHLP)

This is a critical time for public health and understanding how to leverage law and policy to not only ensure the continuation of the progress we have made, but also to advance the work we remain committed to is more important than ever. Join us in-person, to learn, connect, collaborate, and advocate to protect the health of our communities.