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Join the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for an insightful webinar on making online communication more accessible and easy to understand. Designed for medical providers, this session will highlight common barriers people with disabilities face when accessing...
Join Pacific ADA Center staff members as they explain your rights as a person with a disability in health care. Topics covered will include accessibility of hospitals and doctors' offices, medical equipment accessibility, transfer assistance, effective communication,...
Join Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign on March 11 for the next session in their Innovation and Health Equity Discussion Series which will feature Jane Chen, Stanford GSB alum and the co-founder of Embrace Global, the company that developed a portable infant incubator that has helped to save over 750,000 babies globally.
Join Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign on February 25 for the next session in their Innovation and Health Equity Discussion Series where Neha Agarwal, senior director of strategy at PATH and Alliance board vice chair, will discuss an innovative outcomes-based financing (OBF) mechanism being developed in partnership with the governments of Tanzania and Senegal, the Bay Area Global Health Alliance, and Pfizer to reinforce antimicrobial stewardship efforts in LMICs.
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The third Planetary Health Equity Future Leaders program will take place at the Planetary Health Equity Hothouse and will welcome a small group of early career researchers, PhD students and early career professionals (government or civil society) to join them in Canberra in September 2025. The thematic focus of the 2025 Planetary Health Equity Future Leaders program is “Governing for planetary health equity: addressing the consumptogenic system”. Through an intensive fortnight of workshops and masterclasses related to theory, trans-disciplinary research methods, and knowledge mobilization, plus time for writing and conversations, the program offers an opportunity to develop research skills, spark collaborative ideas, and create opportunities for knowledge mobilization that aims to improve planetary health equity.
The 2025 Africa Health Conference held from February 7-8, 2025 is a dynamic platform that brings together experts, researchers, practitioners, students, and community stakeholders dedicated to advancing forward-thinking solutions for Africa’s evolving health challenges. Under the theme “Building Sustainable Systems: Health Financing and Innovation for Africa,“ this 3rd annual conference will explore innovative and adaptive strategies in health financing, healthcare technology, climate resilience, and emergency preparedness to support equitable health outcomes.
Join Stanford Mussallem Center for Biodesign, Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health, Bay Area Global Health Alliance, and Stanford Global Health Club for the November session in the Innovation & Health Equity Discussion Series: Scaling Innovations for Health Equity: A Conversation With Global Strategies. Global Strategies, the nonprofit behind one of the largest neonatal digital health platforms in the world, NoviGuide, will join us, together with their partners from Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, to discuss their pediatric innovation journey and the importance of diverse user testing and cross-country partnerships.
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The recent lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic set the stage for a regional conversation on global health security. Convened by the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Jumuiya Ya Kaunti Za Pwani and planned for 28th to 30th January 2025 at the Prideinn Paradise Beach Resort & Convention Center, Mombasa Kenya, the EARGHSS 2025 will convene a diverse group of stakeholders and serve as a road map for countries across East Africa to work together to facilitate preparedness and response for pandemics and bioterrorism, bolster biosecurity, strengthen health systems, advance health equity, and accelerate innovative health technologies.
Join the Alliance, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, and Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health for another session in the Health Equity Brown Bag Lunch series, Design for Health Equity & Lessons: Learn more about Equalize Health, the design and impact of med devices to address equity gaps, and important lessons along the way. This session features Krista Donaldson, PhD, who is an engineer, designer, and entrepreneur recognized as a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer. She is the Director of Innovation to Impact at Stanford’s Byers Center for Biodesign and helps establish the East Africa Biodesign Program. Krista founded Equalize Health, which developed medical devices treating over 2 million patients in 80 countries. In her talk she’ll cover the good, the challenges, and the big lessons from her work and Equalize Health.
Join the Alliance, Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign, and Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health for Geography and Inequity: Key Structural Determinants of Health in the US, a Health Equity Brown Bag Lunch Session. This session features speaker Sarah Hooper, JD, Professor of Practice at UC Law San Francisco and Associate Dean of the UCSF-UC Law SF Master of Science in Health Policy & Law. She focuses on health justice, aging, and complex care. She has been involved in clinical interventions like the Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors Clinic and research projects such as the Dementia Care Ecosystem clinical trial. Sarah has co-developed tools for decision-making among older adults with dementia, including PREPARE and Plan for Clarity.
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Considerable advancements and significant investments in global health have marked recent years; yet numerous evidence-based interventions continue to fall short of their full potential. By leveraging the multidisciplinary and multi-sector strength of its members, the Bay Area Global Health Alliance explored these challenges through the lens of implementation science in our new insights report. The project engaged nearly 150 global health leaders across various disciplines and sectors to inform and enhance the design, implementation, and scalability of health solutions.
Join Alliance member Stanford Biodesign for their Stanford Biodesign Health Equity brown bag, Design for Health Equity: Taking a literacy lens to advance maternal and child health equity. This brown bag session features Dr. Lee Sanders, a general pediatrician and Professor of Pediatrics at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where he is Chief of the Division of General Pediatrics. He is a national expert in the science of health literacy, which applies a literacy lens to advancing maternal and child health equity.
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View UC Davis' Pandemic Preparedness Roadmap website page. Among the many lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States was an understanding of the critical need for collaborative, multisector responses to emerging health concerns. The response in the United...
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