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