Speaker/Presentation Proposals for the Health Equity Summit may be submitted through our online form. - Click Here -
Due by Friday 4/9
We are seeking strategies for advancing health equity:
Practical solutions,
Actual case studies of successful local initiatives,
New innovative approaches
WASHINGTON DC USA -- MARCH 25, 2021: The Virtual National Health Equity Summit, www.HealthEquitySummit.com, will be broadcast on June 7-10, 2021, and archived for 6 months following the live broadcast. There is no cost to attend the summit.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Juliet K. Choi, JD President and Chief Executive Officer, Asian & Pacific
Islander American Health Forum; Former Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor, US Citizenship and Immigration Services, US Department of Homeland Security and HHS Office for Civil Rights, Washington, DC
Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Equity in Health and Healthcare and James F. Fries Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, Baltimore, MD
Susan Dentzer Senior Policy Fellow, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy; Former Editor in Chief, Health Affairs; Former Health Correspondent, PBS NewsHour; Washington, DC
Ivor Horn, MD, MPH Director, Health Equity & Product Inclusion, Google; Investing Member, Rising America Fund, Portfolia; Board, Care Academy; Advisory Board, Way to Wellville, Change Healthcare and Onboard Health, San Francisco, CA
Erica Lee, PhD Regents Professor, a Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Rudolph J. Vecoli Chair in Immigration History, Director of the Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota; Author, America for Americans: A History of Xenophobia in the United States, Minneapolis, MN
Mary J. Owen, MD Member, Tlingit Nation; Director, Center of American Indian and Minority Health; Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine and BioBehavioral Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth, MN
Elena V. Rios, MD, MSPH, FACP President and Chief Executive Officer, National Hispanic Medical Association; President, National Hispanic Health Foundation, Washington, DC
Mark Smith, MD, MBA Founding President and Former CEO, California Health Care Foundation; Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; Attending Physician, Positive Health Program for AIDS Care, San Francisco General Hospital, Oakland, CA
Reed V. Tuckson, MD, FACP Managing Director, Tuckson Health Connections, LLC; Former EVP & Chief of Medical Affairs, UnitedHealth Group; Former SVP, Professional Standards, AMA; Former President, Charles R. Drew, University of Medicine and Science; Former Commissioner of Public Health, District of Columbia, Atlanta, GA
FEATURED FACULTY
Joseph Betancourt, MD, MPH Vice President and Chief Equity Inclusion
Officer; Founder, Disparities Solutions Center (DSC), Mass General Hospital; Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
David S. Cade, JD Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer, American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA); Former Deputy General Counsel, US Department of Health and Human Services,; Former Acting Deputy Director, Medicaid Bureau, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,Washington, DC
Joseph J. Fifer, FHFMA, CPA President and Chief Executive Officer, Health Care Financial Management Association (HFMA); Former Vice President, Hospital Finance, Spectrum Health,Chicago, IL
Sherry M. Hirota Chief Executive Officer, Asian Health Services, Health Chair, Dellums Commission: Expanded Pathways of Young Men of Color, Oakland, CA
Joy A. Lewis, MSW, MPH Senior Vice President, Health Equity, Strategies and Executive Director, Institute for Diversity and Health Equity, American Hospital Association; Former Senior Consultant, Kaiser Permanente, Washington, DC
Nicole M.B. Mitchell, MBA, CDP Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, Cedars-Sinai Health System; Former National Manager, Diversity and Corporate Social Responsibility, Kia Motors America, Los Angeles, CA
Hoangmai H. Pham, MD, MPH President, President, Institute for Exceptional Care; Former Vice President, Provider Alignment Solutions, Anthem; Former Chief Innovation Officer, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, Washington, DC
Trish Riley, MS Executive Director, National Academy for State Health Policy; Former Director, Governor's Office of Health Policy and Finance, State of Maine, Freeport, ME
Jeffery Roman Executive Director, Office on African American Affairs, Milwaukee County; Executive Director, Urban Roots Milwaukee; Equal Opportunity Coordinator, Community Advocates Public Policy Institute; Past Chair, Milwaukee Equal Rights Commission, Milwaukee, WI
Marcus Schabacker, MD, PhD Chief Executive Officer, ECRI; Chair, Institute for Safe Medication Practices, Lake Forest, IL
Roxie C. Wells, MD President, Cape Fear Valley Hoke Hospital; Board of Trustees, American Hospital Association, Raeford, NC
REGISTRATION COMPLIMENTARY
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SUPPORTED BY
AND THE FOLLOWING INDIVIDUALS AND ORGANIZATIONS
PLANNING COMMITTEE
Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH Bloomberg Distinguished Professor, Equity in Health and Healthcare and James F. Fries Professor of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Director, Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, Baltimore, MD
Susan Dentzer Senior Policy Fellow, Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy; Former Editor in Chief, Health Affairs; Former Health Correspondent, PBS NewsHour; Washington, DC
Sandra R. Hernandez, MD President and Chief Executive Officer, California Health Care Foundation; Former CEO, The San Francisco Foundation, Oakland, CA
Ivor Horn, MD, MPH Director, Health Equity &
Product Inclusion, Google; Investing Member, Rising America Fund, Portfolia; Board, Care Academy; Advisory Board, Way to Wellville, Change Healthcare and Onboard Health, San Francisco, CA
Mary J. Owen, MD Member, Tlingit Nation; Director, Center of American Indian and Minority Health;Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine and BioBehavioral Health, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth, MN
Elena V. Rios, MD, MSPH, FACP President and Chief Executive Officer, National Hispanic Medical Association; President, National Hispanic Health Foundation, Washington, DC
Mark Smith, MD, MBA Founding President and Former CEO, California Health Care Foundation; Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco; Attending Physician, Positive Health
Program for AIDS Care, San Francisco General Hospital, Oakland, CA
Indu Subaiya, MD, MBA Co-founder & President, Catalyst @ Health 2.0; Former Senior Advisor, HIMSS; Former CEO and Co-Founder, Health 2.0, Los Angeles, CA
Laurie Zephyrin, MD, MPH, MBA Vice President for Advancing Health Equity, Commonwealth Fund; Former National Director, Reproductive Health Program; Former Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Health for Community Care, US Department of Veterans Affairs, New York, NY
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