Lecture and conference stress collaboration for health equity

This past Feb. 11 and 12, over 150 students, faculty, staff and community members gathered at the College of Health and Human Services to learn and share ways to collaborate to build health equity in the community. On those days the college’s Bill Burian University-Community Lecture Series was presented in coordination with the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion’s second biennial conference "Collaboration for Equity: Building a Community that Supports Health Care for All."

Dr. LaQuandra S. Nesbitt presented the Burian lecture and the conference keynote, both on the topic of "Successful Strategies for Interdisciplinary Collaboratives to Achieve Health Equity." Nesbitt, who recently took the position of director of the District of Columbia Department of Health, has considerable experience as a public health administrator, primary care provider, teacher, scholar and researcher. Using statistics, theories, models and real-life examples of successful health equity collaborations, her presentations were informative and inspiring.

After the 8 a.m. keynote, the Feb. 12 conference also included three sessions of concurrent workshops between 9:15 a.m. and 3:15 p.m., with lunch and a student poster presentation at the noon hour.

Please visit the Burian Lecture and the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion pages to learn more about the lecture and the conference, including a printed program, a video of the lecture and PowerPoint presentations.