Infant Mortality and Adverse Childhood Experiences

Infant Mortality and Adverse Childhood Experiences - How can we help families raise healthy children? Marie B. Curry will look at the differences in rural and urban health disparities and social determinants of health during her presentation.

Marie Curry is the managing attorney of Community Legal Aid’s Health Education Advocacy and
Law (HEAL) Project as well as Legal Aid’s Immigration practice. She joined the firm in 2011 as an
Equal Justice Works Fellow, focusing on health and poverty issues. In January 2016, Curry began
teaching a clinical course in health law and policy at University of Akron School of Law.

Curry is the 2014 recipient of The Denis Murphy Award, which recognizes outstanding advocacy
within Ohio legal aid organizations. She graduated from Harvard Law School in 1989 and
completed a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in
2011. In addition to working at Legal Aid organizations, early in her career she also practiced health
law with a private firm in California.

Curry’s advocacy work focuses on policy change that improves population health and reduces health
disparities.

This presentation is free and open to the public.