The AMA’s National Health Equity Grand Rounds is a virtual quarterly series that looks to deepen understanding and shape the national discourse around health inequities and opportunities to improve the health of our nation.
The event on Oct. 10, 2023, will invite participants to reevaluate how they think about data on race and ethnicity. The discussion will examine the ways race data impacts our institutions and health care systems, shapes priorities and determines how resources get to the communities they serve.
Speakers will uncover the failures and harms in our approaches to collecting, analyzing, reporting and leveraging race, ethnicity and other key demographic data in public health and health care.
Speakers & panelists
Keynote speakers
- Linda Villarosa: Writer and journalist, The New York Times
- Ryan Petteway, DrPH, MPH: Associate professor at Oregon Health & Science University School of Public Health
Moderator
- Fernando De Maio, PhD: Vice president, health equity research and data use, American Medical Association
Panelists
- Elena Mendez-Escobar, PhD, MBA: Co-executive director of the Health Equity Accelerator
- Vikas Saini, MD: President of Lown Institute
Event access
Free CME available
Continuing Medical Education (CME)* credit is offered at no cost to attendees. This activity has been approved for 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Credit can be claimed on the AMA Ed Hub™.
Collaborators
The National Health Equity Grand Rounds series is developed by the American Medical Association, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, and RespectAbility with support from the ABIM Foundation, Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, American Medical Association Ed Hub™, American Society of Addiction Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Council of Medical Specialty Societies, HealthBegins, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, RUSH, Sinai Chicago, Social Mission Alliance, The Hastings Center and The Joint Commission.
Additional events in this series
- Oct. 14, 2025: National Health Equity Grand Rounds: Creating the Conditions Vital to Health
- Nov. 21, 2024: Rewrite the Script: Narrative Transformation for Equity in Health
- May 30, 2024: Advancing Health Equity Through Resistance: A State of the Union on Threats and Opportunities
- Aug. 8, 2023: Breaking Down the Ivory Tower: Building the Health Care Workforce America Needs
- May 9, 2023: Follow the money! Understanding structural incentives for inequity in health care and beyond
- Feb. 7, 2023: History of racism in U.S. health care: Root Causes of Today’s Hierarchy and Systems of Power
CME disclosure statement
Accreditation Statement: The American Medical Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation Statement: The AMA designates this other (live and on-demand) activity for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to:
- 1.50 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program;
- 1.50 Self-Assessment points in the American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery’s (ABOHNS) Continuing Certification program;
- 1.50 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program;
- 1.50 Lifelong Learning points in the American Board of Pathology’s (ABPath) Continuing Certification program; and
- 1.50 credit toward the CME [and Self-Assessment requirements] of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program
