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 Beyond Flexner Conference 2018 | April 9 - 11, 2018

​The 2018 Beyond Flexner Conference had a theme of Community, Diversity, and Equity and included plenary, workshop and special events around health education in which social mission is present, prominent, and valued to drive health equity and improved health for individuals, communities, and nations. The conference provided tools and strategies for the implementation of interprofessional education/practice, and provide information about social determinants of health, community engagement, disparity reduction, diversity promotion, and value-based health care. Keynote presentations were provided by Sir Michael Marmot, World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health and civil rights leader Andrew Young. Conference attendees also had the opportunity to participate in a variety of community site visits, such as the SPCC Area Health Education Centers (AHEC) Program, which is a “pipeline” program. that motivates and helps prepare schoolkids in medically underserved communities for health professions education.

About the conference:

Keynote speakers
Sir Michael Marmot
Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London
Chair, World Health Organization Commission on Social Determinants of Health

The Honorable Andrew Young
Civil Rights Leader
US Ambassador to the United Nations (Carter Administration)
Mayor of Atlanta (1982-1990)
Conference materials
Opening Session
Videos
2018 Beyond Flexner plenary speaker, Natalie Hernandez, PhD, MPH from Morehouse School of Medicine.

2018 Beyond Flexner speaker. Plenary speaker, Dayna Bowen Matthew, JD from University of Virginia.

2018 Beyond Flexner plenary speaker, Stephen Black, JD from the University of Alabama

Co-Hosts:

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      • BFA Ally Spotlights
    • Student Assembly >
      • Social Mission Scholarship
    • Health Justice Fellowship
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    • Beyond Flexner Conference 2016
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    • Beyond Flexner Conference 2012
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