The UNM 2024 Health Equity Summit will take place on October28-29, 2024, at the Embassy Suites in Albuquerque, NM. The theme for this year's summit is "Honoring New Mexico Communities: Cultivating the Pathways of Equity for Health and Wellbeing."

The summit will focus on important health equity topics, such as expanding the healthcare workforce, addressing social drivers of inequity, and creating collaborative partnerships across state agencies, healthcare systems, and communities. Key sessions include panel discussions on housing justice, perinatal health, food security, and advancing health equity for various communities, including people with disabilities and Indigenous populations.

The summit will feature both plenary sessions and break out discussions, as well as a reception to celebrate community health initiatives in New Mexico. The event aims to foster collaboration and mutual learning among community health workers, healthcare professionals, and policy advocates.

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