The August 8th event featured speakers who challenged our audience to address academic elitism in health education, reimagining an educational system that supports all students and trainees as they learn to care for a diverse patient population. Within the context of the historical and contemporary forces that have shaped the current medical workforce landscape in the U.S., our speakers elevated strategies for addressing the long-standing underrepresentation of historically excluded populations in clinical programs.
The National Health Equity Grand Rounds is a live virtual event series that highlights the root causes of present-day health inequities by tracing the historical and contemporary social, economic, political, geographic, and environmental forces that shape opportunities for health in the United States.
The National Health Equity Grand Rounds series is developed by the American Medical Association, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, and RespectAbility, with support from the ABIM Foundation, Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, American Medical Association Ed Hub, American Society of Addiction Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Council of Medical Specialty Societies, HealthBegins, Institute for Healthcare Improvement, RUSH, Sinai Chicago, The Hastings Center and The Joint Commission.
To mark the anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Interfaith Disability Advocacy Coalition hosted a virtual conversation with Lydia X. Z. Brown, Director of Public Policy at the National Disability Institute, and Aaron Kaufman, co-chair of IDAC. Together, they discussed how economic security for people with disabilities is essential to fulfill the promise of the ADA. Attendees learned how we can all engage in disability advocacy through an intersectional lens.
As part of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month, Los Angeles Public Library, The Asian Americans with Disabilities Initiative, and RespectAbility hosted a candid discussion about the lived autistic, ADHD, and Asian American experience and how they affect mental health. 
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