Health Equity Leadership Summit

PHC's Health Equity Leadership Summit coming to Pasadena, July 10-11!

What to Expect at the Summit 

The Health Equity Leadership Summit is a two-day event that brings people together around a shared vision for equity. Through trainings, keynote talks and panel discussions, attendees will engage with a community working to advancing meaningful change in health care.

From the pre-conference Community Lung Health Equity Event to the Health Equity Leadership Awards Reception, the Summit is built to inspire connection.

Here's a glimpse of what you'll experience (Download the agenda at a glance here).

Featured Speaker

Best-selling author, speaker, physician and founder and Chief Advisor of Advancing Health Equity 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. health care system. 

Dr. Blackstock is a regular contributor on MSNBC and NBC News and previously served as an associate professor and diversity leader at NYU School of Medicine. She has been recognized as a national leader in health equity by Forbes (2019), Fortune (2023) and TIME (2024), which named her one of the “100 Most Influential People in Health.” 

Dr. Blackstock will also be participating in a book signing during the Summit. 

Speakers

	Jerry Abraham, MD, MPH, CMQ Director, Integrated Services and Public Health, Kedren Health
	Lupe Alonzo-Diaz, MPA President and CEO, Physicians for a Healthy California
	Amira Barger, MBA, CVA, CFRE Executive Vice President; Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Communications; and Advisory and Health Sector Specialist, Edelman
	Donaldo Hernandez, MD, FACP Physician, Palo Alto Medical Foundation; CMA Past-President; Vice Chair, PHC Board of Directors
	Alex Li, MD Chief Health Equity Officer, LA Care
	Jodi Hicks PHC Board Member, President & CEO, Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California

	Pooja Mittal, DO Chief Health Equity Officer, HealthNet; Programs Committee Chair, PHC Board Member
	Sunita Mutha, MD Director, Healthforce Center, UC San Francisco; Chair, PHC Board of Directors
	Ilan Shapiro, MD, MBA, FAAP, FACHE Chief Health Correspondent and Medical Affairs Officer, AltaMed
	Shannon Udovic-Constant, MD President, California Medical Association; Pediatrician, The Permanente Medical Group; Founder, Physician Women Rising
	Deena Shin McRae, MD Associate Vice President of Academic Services, University of California Health

Here's what last year's attendees had to say:

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Health Equity Leadership Awards

PHC has closed nominations for its annual Health Equity Leadership Awards, which will be presented at the Health Equity Leadership Awards Reception on July 10, 2025, during the Health Equity Leadership Summit. Click here for more information on the awards and updates on when the winners will be announced. 

For More Information

To discuss sponsorship opportunities or to be added to our email distribution list, please contact healthequitysummit@phcdocs.org.