Can we heal our broken health care system? What role does social justice and equity play in achieving health care for all? Join the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and leading experts from around the country for an important conversation on the fractures the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare in our health systems and the strategies for change in addressing health equity.
The free symposium brought together public health leaders, community advocates, policymakers, researchers, faculty, students, and more for critical discussions on the past, present, and way forward.
Agenda
Welcome: Michael V. Drake, MD
University of California President
Overview: Ninez A. Ponce, MPP, PhD
Director, UCLA Center for Health Policy Research
Panel: Putting Social Justice and Equity at the Front Line in Health Care
Sandro Galea, MD, MPH, DrPH
Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health
J. Nadine Gracia, MD
Executive Vice President and COO, Trust for America’s Health
Sandra Hernández, MD
President and CEO, California Health Care Foundation
Moderator: Michael Rodriguez, MD, MPH
Founding Director, Health Equity Network of the Americas; Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Family Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; and Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
Panel: Repairing a Fractured Health Care System to Fulfill the Promise of Health Equity
Lanhee Chen, PhD
David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies, Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Lisa Simpson, MB, BCh, MPH
President and CEO, AcademyHealth
Anthony Wright
Executive Director, Health Access California
Moderator: Mark A. Peterson, PhD
Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Law, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Closing remarks: Robert K. Ross, MD
President and CEO, The California Endowment
Introduction by: Ron Brookmeyer, PhD
Dean, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
