The Health Equity Leadership Summit unites passionate California physicians, executives, advocates, allies and others committed to achieving health equity for all Californians, especially its most vulnerable patients. Attendees have an opportunity to inspire change and renew their commitment to dismantle barriers that prevent a fair and just healthcare system for everyone.
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The Health Equity Leadership Summit gives passionate physicians, executives, advocates, and allies to join in community and commit to a shared mission: confronting health inequities that affect the state of California.
Over the course of two days, attendees will come together to forge meaningful connections, engage in dynamic hands-on trainings and dive deep into discussions with fellow health equity leaders working to uplift California’s most underserved communities.
As the Summit unfolds, participants will not only gain invaluable insights, tools and skills, but also leave with renewed energy and aspiration, ready to fight for all California patients’ right to affordable, equitable and dynamic healthcare.
See what practical skills and knowledge attendees walked away with last year.
2024 PROGRAM/AGENDA
WHO ATTENDS
Best-selling author, speaker, physician and founder and CEO of Advancing Health Equity (AHE) Dr. Uché Blackstock will speak at the 2025 Health Equity Leadership Summit. Join us for a fireside chat discussing her best-selling book, LEGACY: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine, a captivating story of a Black physician, her career in medicine, and the deep inequities that still exist in the U.S. healthcare system.
In 2019, Dr. Blackstock founded AHE with the mission of partnering with healthcare organizations to dismantle racism in healthcare and to close the gap in racial health inequities. In its five years of existence, AHE has helped major companies, hospitals, and health systems create strategic plans for promoting equitable health care moving forward.
Dr. Blackstock appears regularly on MSNBC and NBC News and is a former associate professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine and the former faculty director for recruitment, retention, and inclusion in the Office of Diversity Affairs at NYU School of Medicine.
She was recognized by Forbes magazine, in 2019, as one of “10 Diversity and Inclusion Trailblazers You Need to Get Familiar With,” in 2023 by Fortune Magazine as one of “13 Innovators Shaping the Future of Health,” and in 2024, as one of TIME’s “100 Most Influential People in Health.”
During the Summit, Dr. Blackstock will also be participating in a book signing.
Health Equity Leadership Awards Congratulations to our 2024 Health Equity Leadership award winners! Awards were presented at the Health Equity Leadership Awards Reception on July 11, 2024. Click here for more information on the awards and updates on when the 2025 applications will open.
Congratulations to our 2024 Health Equity Leadership award winners! Awards were presented at the Health Equity Leadership Awards Reception on July 11, 2024. Click here for more information on the awards and updates on when the 2025 applications will open.
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