Watch this space for more information on Advancing Health Equity’s 2025 three-part webinar series: Strategies from the Field.
Each webinar will provide practical ideas and solutions to create sustainable approaches to systems transformation. Each webinar will feature members from AHE’s Learning Collaborative (LC) teams as well as other experts in the field of health and health care equity. These interactive sessions will feature various perspectives from the field as well as ample time for questions from webinar attendees. Each webinar touches on an important aspect of AHE’s Roadmap to Advance Health Equity, a comprehensive plan to help organizations or multi-organization collaboratives create a sustainable approach to reducing or eliminating health and health care inequities.
Advancing Health Equity through Patient and Community Partnership
Jan. 29, 2025
11am-1:30pm PST || 1-2:30pm CST || 2-3:30pm EST
This webinar will highlight learnings from the Advancing Health Equity Program, including tools and resources that organizations can access for their own efforts related to care delivery and payment transformation. Representatives from state teams will share specific examples of their community partnership efforts related to health equity intervention design, focusing on concrete steps they have taken to partner with the communities they serve.
- Attendees will gain insight around:
- Connecting with populations with lived experience and strategies for including them in the planning and implementation phases of care transformation
- Pitfalls to avoid when designing and implementing partnership efforts
- The positive impact meaningful partnerships with patients and community members has on health and health care transformations
Transforming Care to Advance Health Equity
March 19, 2025
11am-12pm PST || 1-2pm CT || 2-3pm EST
This 60-minute webinar will provide the audience with strategies for planning and implementing care transformations that address the root causes of health and health care inequities, focusing on examples of specific care transformation initiatives implemented by AHE’s Learning Collaborative teams.
- Attendees will gain insight around:
- the necessary components of multi-stakeholder, collaborative care delivery transformation for systems-level change.
- key components for conducting an effective root cause analysis with an equity lens to diagnose existing health and healthcare inequities to inform care transformation activities.
- how state-based teams specifically designed their care transformations using their root cause analysis.
Payment Transformation & Contracting Approaches to Advance Health Equity
April 23, 2025
11am-12pm PST || 1-2pm CT || 2-3pm EST
This 60-minute webinar will explore how to design and implement payment reform mechanisms that support and incentivize the transformation of healthcare delivery to reduce health inequities by meeting medical and social needs, highlighting the work of AHE’s Learning Collaborative teams. Attendees will gain insight around:
- Incorporating equity into value based payment program design, with specific examples from Learning Collaborative teams
- Leveraging contractual requirements to prioritize, support and advance health equity at the provider, plan, and state level
- The benefits and challenges of working on multi-stakeholder, collaborative teams to design payment models