
Explore the critical health disparity of gastric cancer in Asian American communities, examining risk factors, treatment outcomes, and innovative approaches to achieve equitable healthcare delivery.

Explore genetic ancestry research and population genomics in the All of Us Research Program, focusing on health equity, bioinformatics advances, and their impact on addressing health disparities.

Explore how social justice and societal conditions shape health inequalities, examining evidence-based strategies beyond healthcare to create fairer health outcomes across different social gradients.

Joel Bervell, a medical student, discusses how racial biases are embedded in healthcare and the long history of race-based health disparities. He shares his journey of using social media to raise awareness about these issues and suggests ways the medical field can better serve all patients.

Ava Tsapatsaris explores how hospitals in New York City can embrace a plan to be more efficient and caring Ava is an Emmy Award–winning broadcast journalist and published scientific researcher. She has raised over $100,000 for cancer research, including funding a literacy and treatment room at St.

Dr. Vishal Gandhi challenges a difficult truth: in India, healthcare outcomes often depend on geography more than diagnosis. Drawing from his family’s journey through a fragmented system, he explores why talent and capital alone cannot fix healthcare. Real transformation, he argues, requires aligned

From Pain to Purpose. Reimagining healthcare through resilience and reform failure as the foundation of progress. Eva Museta is a medical student, clinical researcher, and health advocate with a growing voice in public speaking. Driven by her passion for leadership and innovation, she is committed

Across the UK, Black and brown infants continue to die at more than twice the rate of white infants - a disparity that has persisted for decades. In this talk, Geeta Sidhu-Robb highlights how medicine built around the “standard” male body continues to fail women and mothers. With a call for structur

Was passiert, wenn ein System, das heilen soll, selbst krank ist? Arzt Dr. med. Mertcan Usluer zeigt, wie Rassismus, Sexismus, Klassismus und andere Formen von Diskriminierung unser Gesundheitssystem prägen – mit tödlichen Folgen. In diesem eindringlichen Talk fordert er ein radikales Umdenken, das

This speech is a personal journey shaped by early loss, compassion, and perseverance, tracing how a childhood tragedy grew into a lifelong dream of building a fair and accessible healthcare system in Mongolia. Through experiences as a medical student, doctor, and researcher—from renovating a hospita

Uma visão potente do SUS como ambiente formador, mostrando como a vivência nos serviços públicos desenvolve competências essenciais, promove equidade e conecta estudantes às realidades sociais que estruturam o cuidado em saúde no Brasil. Bruno Ribeiro nasceu em 1990, o mesmo ano em que o SUS foi cri

This talk explores how public health solutions often fail when they ignore the human side—culture, trust, and lived experiences. Real change begins not with answers, but with listening and understanding the people we aim to help. Liv is passionate about the intersection of public health, social beha

In this moving and deeply personal talk, Dr. Ashish Maskay explores how a childhood seed of empathy—planted by watching his father treat underprivileged patients—blossomed into a lifelong mission of saving lives in Shanghai . Known to many as the "Blood Man," Dr. Maskay recounts the birth of Bloodli