Our Medical-legal partnership draws on the strengths of two powerful professions in order to reduce health disparities for vulnerable populations by addressing the social determinants of health. The Medical-Legal Partnership for History The Medical-Legal Partnership for Children was founded in 1993 by Chief of Pediatrics Dr. Barry Zuckerman. In the fall of 2005, MLPC received grants from the W. K. Kellogg and Robert Wood Johnson Foundations to create a national center for medical-legal partnership with the specific focus of providing technical assistance and funding to burgeoning partnership sites while developing and cultivating the Medical-Legal Partnership Network. There are now close to 80 sites across the country -- partnerships between front-line health care providers and lawyers seeking to positively impact the lives of vulnerable populations. The MLPC National Center is a program of Boston University School of Medicine/Boston Medical Center.
