Community Grand Rounds
Launched in 2018, Community Grand Rounds (CGR), hosts local and nationally recognized speakers, workshops, and other events that explore topics of health equity and population health. The events are designed for professionals in medicine and allied health fields, government leaders, other not-for-profit leaders and community members.
To advance health equity, we must redirect our efforts from fractured, disconnected and siloed bodies of work to balanced portfolios of synchronized interventions that are aligned with one another and are mutually supportive.
Upcoming event
Transforming health care to advance health equity
In his presentation, Rishi Manchanda, M.D., MPH, will discuss an approach to advancing health equity which involves the creation of a "balanced portfolio" of health equity programs that includes medical interventions, reforms of policies and practices within health care organizations, efforts to address the social determinants of community health, and advocacy that focuses on key policy and legislative issues. He will also discuss emerging efforts to estimate the total return (including financial, social and economic) to investments to health equity work.
This event is tailored for a non-clinical audience and is open to anyone. Community health workers will be eligible for MiCHWA approved CEUs.
Event date
Friday, Oct. 18, 2024
Event time
2 pm to 3:15 pm
In-person
Grand Valley State University DeVos Center for Interprofessional Health
333 Michigan St. NE
Grand Rapids, MI 49503
Live stream with audience interaction
Boys and Girls Club Teen Center
190 W. Empire Ave.
Benton Harbor, MI 49022
Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
586 Pioneer Drive, 460 O'Dowd Hall
Rochester, MI 48307
Corewell Health Lakeland Hospitals - St. Joseph Hospital
Frederick S. Upton Education Center
Room 123
1234 Napier Ave.
St. Joseph, MI 49085
Virtually via Microsoft Teams
Rishi Manchanda, M.D., MPH, is CEO at HealthBegins, a national mission-driven strategy and implementation firm that helps Medicaid-serving managed care plans, health systems, and social sector clients to exceed health care equity and social needs performance requirements, and achieve long-term impact for people and communities harmed by societal practices. Dr. Manchanda's areas of expertise include building and scaling value-based care models for historically marginalized populations, embedding and advancing equity in clinics and communities, and designing and leading national and regional policy initiatives to improve population health.
Dr. Manchanda served as the founding director of social medicine for a network of community health centers in south central Los Angeles, as the first lead physician for homeless veterans at the Greater Los Angeles VA, and as the chief medical officer for a multi-billion dollar employer with a large rural agricultural workforce. In his 2013 book - The Upstream Doctors - and TED Talk, he introduced “Upstreamists”, a new model of healthcare professionals and leaders who improve outcomes by addressing the social and structural drivers of health equity - patients’ social needs, community-level social determinants of health, and structural determinants of health equity including structural racism. Based in Los Angeles, Dr. Manchanda serves as a board member and advisor for several national nonprofits, companies, and initiatives that promote health equity, economic opportunity, and participatory democracy.
Have a question?
For questions about the speakers series, please email healthequity@corewellhealth.org.