The Mullan Health Workforce Equity Summit Series is a bi-annual event that convenes stakeholders, scholars, and the public on important and edgy topics relating to health disparities, equity, and the workforce.
April 30, 2025 | Washington, DC
Studies show a steady decline in health workers’ trust in organizations, and this decline is significantly associated with a reduction in patient trust in clinicians. To date, most approaches to rebuilding health worker trust have emphasized individual-level interventions and support for leaders. Emerging approaches, however, highlight the importance of creating structures and processes that amplify health workers’ voices in decision-making about clinical care. This Summit examined the evidence on the problem and presented a series of case studies that may hold promise for rebuilding health workers’ trust and, by extension, patient trust.
October 30, 2020 | Virtual
This summit focused on priorities and strategies to increase diversity in the health workforce. It provided an overview of structural racism and how its institutionalization within our country’s history and law has hindered access to quality education for racial minorities. In addition, panels 1) focused on initiatives and opportunities to create better educational pathways for minority students, 2) explored the experience of health professions students and faculty of color and how to improve their experience, and 3) focused on policy changes to promote equity.
The keynote speaker was Dayna Bowen Matthew, JD, PhD, Dean of the George Washington University Law School and author of Just Medicine: A Cure for Racial Inequality in American Health Care. View Recordings
June 18, 2019 | Washington, DC
This summit examined the landscape of reproductive health services and policies that threaten access to appropriate and comprehensive care in the United States. Representatives of various reproductive health institutions focused on pipeline and distribution issues, as well as, the challenges of recruitment and retention of providers. Frontline workforce perspectives included an overview of residency programs focused on integrating and enhancing family planning into training; legislative barriers and the importance of advocacy for reproductive rights in the workplace; and the consequences of restrictive policies on population outcomes. View recording.