AHLA's Commitment to Diversity
In principle and in practice, the American Health Lawyers Association values and seeks diverse and inclusive participation within the Association regardless of gender, race, creed, age, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability. The Association welcomes all members as it leads health law to excellence through education, information, and dialogue.
AHLA Diversity Mentoring Program
AHLA's Advisory Council on Diversity has launched a diversity mentoring program. This program builds on the Association's commitment to create a collegial community for both senior and newer members and to meet members' needs for networking and relationship building. Mentoring programs provide an important mechanism for networking and can be a long-term strategy for cultivating the next generation of leadership. By their very nature, such programs can be mutual mentoring experiences — with both the mentor and the mentee learning from one another. AHLA's diversity mentoring program demonstrates the value AHLA places on increasing the diversity of our membership and leadership. Members interested in and committed to advancing this diversity initiative are encouraged to serve as mentors and members of diverse backgrounds are being invited to participate as mentees. We hope you will consider participating.
Diversity Summer Internship
As part of AHLA's initiative to cultivate more diversity among attorneys practicing health law, the Association is working to provide opportunities for talented law students of diverse backgrounds so that they can learn more about this segment of the legal profession. To this end, AHLA's Advisory Council on Diversity sponsors a Diversity Summer Internship each year. The program provides a first or second-year law student with an eight week internship at AHLA's office in Washington, DC where he/she performs various writing and research duties to support publishing and public interest activities. Read more about AHLA's internship qualifications and benefits for Summer, 2010
View a list of the members of the Advisory Council on Diversity.