Artificial intelligence (AI) is being rapidly deployed in public health settings, including data surveillance, benefit approvals and denials, physical data centers, and more.

Community organizers and advocates must build powerful networks to preserve healthcare as a community service, not just a vehicle for financial extraction and investor returns.

HBCU medical schools educate nearly 70% of the nation’s Black doctors, playing a critical role in helping the healthcare workforce reflect the communities they serve.

Drawing from compassionate awareness practices, including radical acceptance, speculative imagination, and ancestral intelligence, this session offered an opportunity to unwind, recharge, and reconnect with what you need to move forward with a renewed sense of clarity and purpose.