CONTACT:
Mackenzie Clift
Project Manager
The Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital
Phone: 617-724-4613
Email: mclift@partners.org
Website: https://www.mghdisparitiessolutions.org/

WASHINGTON, DC USA -- HEALTHCARE UPDATE NEWS SERVICE™ -- JULY 14, 2026: The Health Equity Leadership Program (HELP) is our year-long, hands-on executive education program focused exclusively on helping health care leaders achieve equity in quality. The program is designed to help you translate the latest understanding of root causes of gaps in care into realistic solutions you can adopt within your organization. The DSC has the unique advantage of 19 years of experience developing and implementing the HELP, the only program of its kind in the nation.

Through the HELP, we develop leaders who are prepared to meet the challenges of health care transformation by improving quality for all populations. The program has three main goals:

1. To equip health care leaders with a rich understanding of equity in health care, the vision to implement solutions, and the strategies to transform their organization to deliver high-value health care.
2. To help leaders create strategic plans or projects to advance their work in health equity in a customized way, with practical benefits tailored to every organization.
3. To create a professional learning and networking environment for leaders in health care to engage in peer-to-peer learning, crowdsourcing ideas and strategies for reducing gaps in care, resource sharing, collaboration, and ongoing support in the form of a national HELP alumni network.

Completed applications are due September 4th, 2026. To learn more about the Health Equity Leadership Program sponsored by the DSC, visit our website. To apply for enrollment in the HELP, download and complete an application.

This program is jointly sponsored by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and supported by Joint Commission Resources, Inc., an affiliate of The Joint Commission. CME/CNE credits will be provided through NCQA for the opening and closing meetings.

DISPARITIES SOLUTIONS CENTER MODERATORS
Aswita Tan-McGrory, MBA, MSPH Director, The Disparities Solutions Center; Administrative Director, Research Oversight Committee, Office for Research Careers, Center for Academic Development and Enrichment, Mass General Brigham	Alden Landry, MD, MPH Senior Faculty, The Disparities Solutions Center; Assistant Dean, Office for Diversity Inclusion and Community Partnership; Associate Director and Advisor, William B. Castle Society, Harvard Medical School; Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Founder and Co-Director, Tour for Diversity
Lenny Lopez, MD, MDiv, MPH Senior Faculty, The Disparities Solutions Center; Chief of Hospital Medicine, San Francisco VA Medical Center; Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine; Co-Editor-In-Chief of The Journal of General Internal Medicine, Society of General Internal Medicine	Esteban Barreto, PhD, MA Program Director of Research Evaluation, Disparities Solutions Center, Massachusetts General Hospital; Faculty, The Mongan Institute; Instructor, Harvard Medical School
Christopher Kirwan, PhD Faculty, The Disparities Solutions Center; Director, Enterprise Language Services, Mass General Brigham; Director, Medical Interpreter Services, Massachusetts General Hospital	Andrea Tull, PhD Faculty, The Disparities Solutions Center; Vice President of Analytics and Data Visualization, Sellers Dorsey

ADDITIONAL FACULTY

Allison Bryant, MD, MPH, Associate Chief Health Equity Officer, Mass General Brigham Jose C. Florez, MD, PhD, Chair, Department of Medicine, Mass General Brigham; Investigator, Center for Genomic Medicine, MGH; Institute Member, Broad Institute; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Mark Friedberg, MD, MPP, SVP, Performance Measurement and Improvement, BCBSMA Jeremy W. Meisinger, Esq., Senior Director, Federal Affairs, BCBSMA Long Nguyen, MD, MS, Assistant in Medicine/Gastroenterology, MGH; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Core Faculty, Clinical and Translational Epidemiology Unit, Mongan Institute, MGH Rebecca Oran, MPH, Director, Nudge Unit, Behavioral Insights & Strategic Research, BCBSMA Alvin Powell, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Triad Adult & Pediatric Medicine; Internal Medicine & Nephrology Kristine Sand, MBA, Director of Health Equity, BCBSMA

About the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital
The Disparities Solutions Center (DSC) is dedicated to the development and implementation of strategies that advance policy and practice to achieve equitable health care.

Specifically, we are working to:

1. Create change by developing new research and translating the findings into policy and practice.
2. Find solutions that help health care leaders, organizations, and key stakeholders ensure that every patient receives high-value, high-quality health care.
3. Encourage leadership by expanding the community of health care professionals prepared to improve quality and achieve equity in quality.

Jointly sponsored by
The National Committee for Quality Assurance


And supported by
Joint Commission Resources, Inc. (An Affiliate of The Joint Commission)

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