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HEI Summit 2018
Engaging New Allies in the Health Equity Movement: A Partnership Summit

​Friday, February 23, 2018
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
New York Public Library
515 Malcolm X Boulevard
New York, NY


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HEI Partnership Summit 2018 Report and Recommendations can be viewed here.

HEI Partnership Summit 2018 Final Agenda
HEI Partnership Summit 2018 Program
HEI Partnership Summit 2018 Photo Gallery
HEI Partnership Summit 2018 Video
HEI Partnership Summit 2018 Innovation Think Tanks & Mind Maps
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About the 2018 Summit

The 2018 Summit built on the elements that worked successfully in HEI's 2016 Summit and incorporated new themes that will expand the reach of the health equity movement. The Summit successfully convened health care professionals, community leaders, students, government staff, policymakers, community development leaders, urban planners, architects, transportation specialists, educators and public health practitioners, among others. The Summit aimed to inform and engage participants through two distinct pathways: one dedicated to engagement through innovation think tanks and case studies on important determinants of health that emerged from the participants' feedback at the 2016 Summit; and the other dedicated to presentations, training, case studies and consensus building on strategies for multisectoral partnerships via community and public engagement.

Keynote Speaker
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Tonya Lee Lewis, Keynote Speaker, HEI Partnership Summit 2018
Entrepreneur, Producer, Writer, Tonya Lewis Lee has been hard at work for twenty years to deliver quality content and information across many platforms.  Through storytelling on-line, in books, in film and television, she has sought to inspire self-esteem, entertainment and positive health outcomes. In particular, her efforts across two US administrations for nearly a decade with the program, A Healthy Baby Begins with You, a national program to address U.S. disparities in infant mortality rates, has delivered valuable health information to millions of women and communities, and has also inspired Tonya to do even more.
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Summit Organizing Committee 2018
Name
HEI Affiliation/Titles
Professional Affiliations/Titles**
Renata Schiavo, PhD, MA, CCL
Founding President, Board of Directors
1) Senior Lecturer, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
2) Editor Emerita, and former Editor-in-Chief (2013-2017), Journal of Communication in Healthcare: Strategies, Media, and Engagement in Global Health
3) Founder and Principal, Strategic Communication Resources
4) Adjunct Associate Professor, Long Island University-Brooklyn
Alka Mansukhani, PhD, MS
​Founding Treasurer, Co-Vice President, Board of Directors
Associate Professor, New York University School of Medicine
Upal Basu Roy, PhD, MS, MPH
Co-Vice President, Board of Directors
1) Director of Translational Science Research Program, LUNGevity Foundation
2) Project Leader, The Solution Lab, Inc.
Glenn Ellis, MPH, CHCE
Board Secretary, Board of Directors
President/Founder of Strategies for WellBeing, LLC
Lenore Cooney
Member, Board of Directors
1) Founder and former Chair/CEO, Cooney Waters Group
2) Principal, LCooney Consulting
Friso van Reesema, MBA, MPH
Member, Board of Directors
VP, Business Development Managed Care, CipherHealth
Carmelo Cruz Reyes, MPH
Member, Health Equity Initiative
Senior Contract Manager, Emblem Health
Lalitha Ramanathapuram, MS, PhD, MPH
Member, Health Equity Initiative
Program Manager-Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Jennifer Weiss, MPH
Member, Health Equity Initiative
Public Health Consultant
Doree Damoulakis, MPH
Member, Health Equity Initiative
Public Health Project Manager and Research Analyst
Karen Mangasarian, PhD, JD
Member, Health Equity Initiative
Partner, Foley & Lardner, LLP
Radhika Ramesh, MA
Senior Project Manager
Senior Editorial Assistant, Journal of Communication in Healthcare: Strategies, Media and Engagement in Global Health, Taylor & Francis
Naomi Oledibe
Project Coordinator
Health Science Graduate, Boston University
Latisha Faroul
Communications and Marketing Intern
Public Health Graduate, Montclair State University
**Organizational affiliations are listed here for identification purposes only and do not imply any endorsement by the organizations.
Summit Allied Organizations
Summit Allied Organizations (SAOs) are organizations that share with HEI a strong commitment to advancing health equity, support the 2018 Summit's goals, and contributed to several strategic aspects of the Summit. We are grateful for their participation!
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For information on our inaugural 2016 Summit and the 2016 Summit Report and Recommendations, click here.
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    • Racism is a Health Equity Issue Pledge
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