Artist & Community Advocate
San Francisco, California
United States
Gloria Aguirre is an artist and community advocate in San Francisco, serving as program manager for community outreach at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center. Advocating for long term investments to improve health literacy and access to care in often marginalized communities, she believes that humanity’s most powerful tools for change are curiosity and creativity...
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Economic Development & Political Activism
New Orleans, Louisiana
United States
Claire Thomas is a Senior Program Manager, Community Contracting for Vizient in the Gulf South. In this role, she works with regional health care systems to implement their health and economic equity goals...
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Community Organizer
Baltimore, Maryland
United States
Akshita Siddula is a community organizer and public health professional based in Baltimore, USA. She is currently serving as the Executive Director of The 6th Branch, a nonprofit organization that transforms vacant lots into productive green spaces such as parks, playgrounds, and urban farms.
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Physical Therapy
Charleston, South Carolina
United States
Paige Knowlson is the Executive Director of Pattison’s Academy, an organization providing comprehensive services to children with severe disabilities in Charleston, South Carolina. Paige’s passion lies in building collaborative, interdisciplinary teams, programs and communities that collectively promote childhood health and development...
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Public Health Program Analyst
Washington, DC
United States
Shannon Jordan is a program analyst at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Office of Health Equity (OHE) which works to understand and eliminate health disparities among Veterans. She serves as the OHE engagement lead disseminating health equity resources to care providers, researchers, Veterans, and the public|also supporting workforce diversity and cultural competency at VHA...
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Community Health Engagement
Walterboro, South Carolina
United States
Brenda Hughes is the Manager of Community Engagement for the South Carolina Department of Health. She is responsible for implementing policy, systems and environmental change to advance health equity in rural populations. She serves in a leadership role in multiple coalitions and collaborations across the state to develop community capacity, build sustainable, equitable communities to address the root causes of the social determinants of health...
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Oral Health & Public Health Education
Phoenix, Arizona
United States
Dr. Scott Howell is a board certified public health dentist and director of public health dentistry & teledentistry at A.T. Still University. His work in health equity focuses on developing innovative models in the field of teledentistry to help increase access to oral health care...
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Pediatric Spine Surgeon
Brooklyn, New York
United States
Dr. Qusai Hammouri is a Pediatric Spine Surgeon at NYU Langone Health. Previously, they were the Director of Pediatric Orthopaedics in the Northwell Health System on Staten Island. They developed the pediatric spinal surgery program and performed the first pediatric spinal deformity surgeries on the Island...
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Community Director
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
United States
Kate Daugherty is an accomplished community leader leveraging a unique combination of international experience, formal training and trauma-informed practice to create transformational change in communities. In her previous role, Kate oversaw the Youth Healing Team, a youth-led business providing training and capacity building to organizations across the country...
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Public Health Physician
Boston, Massachusetts
United States
Dr. Bram Wispelwey is an Associate Physician in the Division of Global Health Equity at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and Senior Technical Lead at Partners In Health United States. Bram is Co-founder of Health for Palestine, a community organizing initiative in Palestinian refugee camps that seeks to maximize wellness and address health barriers via social accompaniment and creative integration with existing facilities...
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