National Health Equity Grand Rounds: Follow the Money!

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 May 9, 2023, will explore how profit in health care incentivizes inequity by perpetuating and exacerbating segregated systems of care, which serves to maintain class inequality. The event takes place from 1-2:30 p.m. Central. 

The event will feature speakers who are dismantling inequity within and beyond health care. Expert speakers will challenge the audience to participate in the reimagination of a health care system that centers on community and healing over profiteering.

They will also highlight strategies for disrupting existing systems to catalyze change within and beyond single institutions; and explore how the process of undoing structural incentives for inequity creates opportunities for collective liberation and healing.

Keynote speaker

• Edgar Villanueva, MHA: Author, activist, founder and CEO, Decolonizing Wealth Project and Liberated Capital

Moderator

• Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH: Vice president, equitable health systems and innovation, AMA Center for Health Equity; medical director, quality, safety, and equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital

Introductory speakers

• Emily Cleveland Manchanda, MD, MPH: Director for social justice education and implementation, AMA; assistant professor of emergency medicine, Boston Medical Center

Panelists

• Donald M. Berwick, MD, MPP, FRCP: President emeritus and senior fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
• Linda Murray, MD, MPH: Adjunct assistant professor, University of Illinois School of Public Health; board chair, National Collaborative for Health Equity
• Noam N. Levey: Senior correspondent, KFF Health News

• Watch the recording.

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™.

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, AMA Ed Hub™, American Society of Addiction Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Council of Medical Specialty Societies, HealthBegins, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Rush University, Sinai Chicago, The Hastings Center, and The Joint Commission.

• May 30, 2024: Advancing Health Equity Through Resistance: A State of the Union on Threats and Opportunities 
• Oct. 10, 2023: Creating Accountability Through Data: From Racism and Neglect to Transparency and Repair
• Aug. 8, 2023: Breaking Down the Ivory Tower: Building the Health Care Workforce America Need
• 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

*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 1.5 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:

• 1.5 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program;
• 1.5 Self-Assessment points in the American Board of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery’s (ABOHNS) Continuing Certification program;
• 1.5 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program; and
• 1.5 Lifelong Learning points in the American Board of Pathology’s (ABPath) Continuing Certification program;
• It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting MOC credit.