2024 BDHEA Summit Brief Recap

This video captures the energy and key sessions from the 2024 BDHEA Summit in a three-minute tour of the 2-day event.

 

Charting the Course Towards the Future of Health Equity

New Facts on the Ground and the Holistic Response

Opening panel discussion between Eugene A. Woods, MBA, MHA, FACHE, Chief Executive Officer, Advocate Health, and Michele Richardson, JD, Board Chairperson, Advocate Health, Board member, BDHEA; moderated by Renee DeSilva, CEO, The Health Management Academy provides an inspiring discussion of  the work of health equity from their perspectives -- on how healthcare organizations are bringing a more mindful approach to the clinical needs of vulnerable communities.

 

The Power in the Room

Why Us? Finding Our Strength, Building Our Capacity

Powerhouse healthcare leaders discuss the table stakes in becoming more effective advocates for equity. View this candid assessment of the strengths and needs we all confront as leaders.

Moderator: Bill Holiber, Vice Chairman & President, U.S. News & World Report

Panelists:

• Greg Adams, Chair & CEO, Kaiser Permanente health plans
• Hugh Mighty, MD, MBA, FACOG, Howard University’s senior vice president for health affairs and CEO of Howard University Hospital Corporation
• Richard Besser, President & CEO, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
  

 

Welcome Address – Day 2

Ben Vinson III, PhD, President, Howard University. Introduced by Erickajoy Daniels, BDHEA Founding Member.

 

The Future of Work

The state of the health workforce is a growing concern in the post-COVID pandemic era. This conversation discussed the headwinds facing training institutions seeking to continue producing a demographically diverse, interdisciplinary health workforce.

Moderator: Orriel Richardson, JD, MPH, Executive Director, External Affairs | Head of Health Equity & Policy JPMorgan Chase

Panelists:

• Sandra Edmonds Crewe, MSW, Ph.D., ACSW, Dean and Professor at the School of Social Work at Howard University. Interim director of the PhD program
• Hugh Mighty, MD, MBA, FACOG, Howard University senior vice president for health affairs and CEO of Howard University Hospital Corporation

 

BDHEA Feature with EY: Board Diversification and Inclusion

Listen in on a  conversation around expanding Black executive’s capacity to address opportunities and threats – from the Boardroom. Working with Ernst & Young’s EY Center for Health Equity, BDHEA is focused on removing economic barriers, developing diverse talent, and instituting equitable practices to improve health outcomes through connecting the supply of qualified Black executives to healthcare boards.  This initiative aims to increase the number of qualified Blacks on health system boards.

Speakers:

●      Yele Aluko, MD, MBA, FACC, FSCAI, Chief Medical Officer and Managing Director, EY Americas

●      Deborah Phillips, Executive Director BDHEA

 

Legal Update

The Supreme Court’s affirmative action decisions in education have had far-reaching effects on corporate diversity and social action. This session explains implications for board governance and the social determinants of health.

Speakers:

●      Michele Richardson, JD, Board Chairperson, Advocate Health, Board member, BDHEA

●      Jo-Ann Sagar, Partner Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment, Hogan Lovells

 

Understanding the State of the State - Health Status Headwinds

The federal Healthy People 2030 initiative looks beyond the clinic to promote environmental and social aspects of well-being. Yet progress on its end-of-decade goals has stalled or regressed. Our panel reflects on care access and the social, community, economic and educational trends that board directors are compelled to address.

Moderator: Ronald L. Copeland, MD, FACS, Senior Vice President of National Equity, Inclusion & Diversity Strategy and Policy, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan

Panelists:

• Yolanda Lawson, MD, President, National Medical Association
• Shonta Chambers, MSW, EVP Health Equity and Community Engagement, Patient Advocate Foundation
• Eugene E. Jones Jr., Former CEO, Housing Authority of Atlanta

 

Finding Power in Partners:

All Hands-on Deck to Chart the Course

Accelerating the pace of change means reaching out across political, nonprofit, and corporate networks. This session discussed methods for planning, delivery, and evaluation of collaborating in an ecosystem approach to health equity with real life examples of partners galvanizing to address health challenges.

Moderator: Kulleni Gebreyes, MD, MBA, Principal, Deloitte

Panelists:

• Reed Tuckson, MD, FACP, Managing Director, Tuckson Health Connections; co-founder of the Black Coalition Against COVID
• Dr. Margaret Larkins-Pettigrew, SVP & Chief Clinical DEI Officer at Allegheny Health Network/Highmark, Academic Chair of Obstetrics/Gynecology at Drexel University; Founder/Pres. of Just WONDOOR.

 

The Climate for Equity

Panelists discussed how ESG programs, including health equity audits, corporate philanthropy, and community development, are crucial for organizations. An ESG framework ensures accountability for an organization’s commitment to Black health. However, Black directors need to assess their board’s ESG maturity, ambition, and navigate political and financial limitations.

Moderator:

●      Kim Drumgo, Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer, Geisinger

Panelists:

●      Alicia Wilson, Trustee, Johns Hopkins University

●      Cara James, PhD, President and CEO, Grantmakers in Health

●      David Rabinowitz, Principal, Monitor Deloitte

 

Navigating the Community Health Advocate’s Role

How Can We Close the Racial Health Gap by Supporting Community Health Workers?

Listen in on a rich discussion around Community Health Workers and how they address and mitigate unmet social needs through managing healthcare needs, integrating social services and other resources for clients and patients. Community health workers have had notable success, so how can CHCs be more widely deployed?   

Moderator:

• Shelina Ramnarine, PhD, Director Our Race to Health Equity Community Engagement, Johnson & Johnson

Panelists:

• Denise Smith, Executive Director at the National Association of CHWS and Co-Founder at Vaccine Equity Cooperative
• Olajide Williams, MD, MS, Columbia University, Professor of Neurology and Vice Dean of Community Health, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, Co-founder of CHW training program
• Dr. Joneigh Khaldun, Chief Health Equity Officer at CVS Health

 

Grasping AI’s Role in Health Equity

How can AI improve health, deliver value, and promote social justice?   Artificial intelligence holds the promise of improving detection, diagnosis and treatment while aiding patients and physicians in some of their most frustrating tasks. Listen in on this informative conversation between AI experts.

Moderator: Blair Hirst, Founder, Digital Health Review

Panelists:

• Mohan Suntha, MD, President/CEO, University of Maryland Medical System (UMMS)
• Robert L. Dixon, Jr., Corporate Board Executive, Digital Consultant and Former Chief Information Officer
• Fay Cobb-Payton, Ph.D, MBA, Consultant, Payton Services and Professor Emerita, NC State University

 

Now What? Change Management in Healthcare Transformation

Change Management in Transformation: Moving Minds to Move the Needle

Black health remains in crisis, even as the threat of a public health emergency recedes. The work of the director is to hold fast to cultural values and work to raise our employees and our community. In this session, leaders reflect on our responsibility and how we are equipped to meet this moment.

Moderator:

●      Melvin Mezue, M.D. PhD., - Partner, McKinsey

Speakers:

●      Cheryl Pegus, M.D., M.P.H, Morgan Health Ventures

●       Wright Lassiter III, CEO, CommonSpirit Health

 

Industry Call to Action

Experience the powerful wrap up with an industry call to action from Shavon Arline-Bradley, President & CEO, National Council of Negro Women. Shavon is an ordained minister and the founding principal and CEO of REACH Beyond Solutions, a public health, advocacy, and executive leadership firm. She served in the Obama administration with U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy.