Dr Germain’s lecture will examine how legal and ethical frameworks can be leveraged to address health inequalities affecting marginalised groups in the UK. Drawing on some of her ongoing research projects, she will argue that intersectionality must be used as a critical lens to create greater equity in health and healthcare.

She will first, delve on the importance of having a new and more agile ethical framework that takes an intersectional approach to set priorities for public health in the UK. Second, focusing on healthcare services, she will unpack how deliberative methods that encourage the involvement of marginalised groups with intersecting identities to co-create law and policy, could be used for the allocation of resources for the NHS.

Dr Sabrina Germain

Dr Sabrina Germain is a Reader in Healthcare Law and Policy and the Associate Dean for Equality Diversity and Inclusion at the City Law School. She is also the co-lead of the Health and Equity Lab at City St George’s, and is a member of the Medical Law Review editorial advisory board.

Sabrina’s research calls attention to the importance of justice in healthcare law and policy. In recent years, she has focused and been recognised for her expertise on inequalities in healthcare relating to race and gender diversity. Her work on these subjects has been published in leading journals such as Medical Law Review, Feminist Legal Studies and Medical Law International. Together with Elizabeth Chloe Romanis and Jonathan Herring she is also the editors of a new textbook that places intersectionality at the forefront of teaching in healthcare ethics and law.

The book is available for pre-order.