Leadership Development to Improve Health Outcomes For All
“This is program is highly beneficial as it brings awareness, validation and suggestions in doing this difficult, changing work. I greatly recommend this program to everyone who’s seriously curious about what they can do in eradicating health disparities.”— Yolanda Frazier, Elevance Health
About the Program
Traditional medical education lacks training on how the healthcare system is influenced by racism and how outdated policies perpetuate disparities. This program will teach you how to confront and remediate unfair practices and advance health equity in your community or practice.
Program Fees
- Standard Price $3,100.00
Program Overview
Advancing Health Equity in your Community or Practice
Develop and refine your leadership skills through a health equity lens in this online program. You’ll examine how racism and unconscious assumptions, structural faults in the health care system, and avoidable differences in the drivers of health shape outcomes—and how leaders can sustain action over the long term. In particular, you will:
- Examine how policies, incentives, and resource allocation can disadvantage populations made most vulnerable—and learn to center their needs in decisions
- Strengthen your ability to lead equity-centered conversations using shared values and plain language (not jargon) to align stakeholders across roles and sectors
Analyze factors impacting patients and health care providers—identity, “minority tax,” imposter syndrome, unconscious assumptions, work-life integration, and secondary stress—through a systems lens, using practical equity decision questions to surface benefits and burdens
Upcoming Program Details
- Deepen your knowledge of health equity to include social determinants and root causes—and how historical factors and policy agendas shape power and produce unfair gaps
- Learn how to address complex topics like microaggressions, tokenism, the “Diversity Tax,” and more to identify specific, tangible opportunities to operationalize strategies to advance health equity in your work or practice
- Apply innovative leadership frameworks—adaptive, authentic, and transformational—to make substantial and lasting change in an organization
- Strengthen your change-management toolkit: analyze major drivers of organizational change, communicate equity using shared values across sectors, and make managerial decisions informed by data and metrics
- Examine personal and professional challenges of sustaining this work—work/life integration, leadership responsibilities, and career aspirations
All Times are Eastern Time (ET).
| Tuesday, November 17, 2026 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 10:00–11:30 am | Forming and Norming for Health Equity | |
| 11:30–11:45 am | Break | |
| 11:45 am–12:15 pm | Breakout Groups | |
| 12:15–12:45 pm | Lunch Break | |
| 12:45–2:15 pm | Art & Practice of Leadership | |
| 2:15–2:30 pm | Break | |
| 2:30–4:30 pm | Road to Implementation: Process Improvement, Alignment and Communication | Wednesday, November 18, 2026 |
| 9:30–10:00 am | Optional Coffee Chat | |
| 10:00–11:30 am | Understanding Current US Policy | |
| 11:45 am–12:15 pm | Breakout Groups | |
| 12:15–12:45 pm | Lunch Break | |
| 12:45–2:15 pm | Leading Organizational Teams: Case Studies | |
| 2:15–2:30 pm | Break | |
| 2:30–3:30 pm | Leading Organizational Teams: Case Studies | Thursday, November 19, 2026 |
| 9:30–10:00 am | Optional Coffee Chat | |
| 10:00–11:30 am | Public Narrative for Equity | |
| 11:30–11:45 am | Break | |
| 11:45 am–1:00 pm | Health Equity Leadership: Prioritizing and Creating Opportunities | |
| 1:00–1:30 pm | Lunch Break | |
| 1:30–3:00 pm | Setting the Context | Friday, November 20, 2026 |
| 10:00–11:00 am | Managing Change and Transition in Organizations | |
| 11:00–11:15 am | Break | |
| 11:15 am–12:15 pm | Fireside on Current Events | |
| 12:45–2:15 pm | Managing Self and Leading and Coaching Others | |
| 2:15–2:45 pm | Wrap up |
This agenda is subject to change.
This online program is designed for health care executives and emerging leaders in the United States and Canada who are committed to addressing health equity in marginalized populations. Participants may include:
- Chief Belonging Officer
- Community Engagement Officers
- C-Suite Executives
- Dentists
- Department Chairs
- Division Chiefs
- Group Practice Executives
- Health Care Consultants
- Health Systems Executives
- Senior Health Care Leaders
- Human Resources Professionals
- Medical Directors
- Nurse Executives
- Nurses
- Pharmacists
- Physician Executives
- Physicians
- Psychologists
Credits & Logistics
All participants will receive a Certificate of Participation upon completion of the program. This program also contributes to the 3-program Executive Leadership in Health Care Certificate of Specialization. Click here for more information.
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health designates this live activity for a maximum of 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The American Medical Association (AMA) has an agreement of mutual recognition of continuing medical education (CME) credit with the European Union of Medical Specialties (UEMS). Additional information regarding this agreement may be found on the American Medical Association (AMA) website.
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will grant 1.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for this program, equivalent to 15 contact hours of education. Participants can apply these contact hours toward other professional education accrediting organizations.
All credits subject to final agenda.