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It's essential to combine action with access to necessary resources—including powerful data—and to assess the impact in order to make informed decisions about future strategies. By working collaboratively, communities can improve health outcomes and create environments where individuals can thrive. Join Healthix and its partners as we explore and discuss how clinical and social intervention can address some of the challenges we face to build healthier communities.
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Alexa Mikhail
Senior Health and Longevity WriterSHE Media’s Flow Space

Assemblymember Sam Pirozzolo
MemberCommittee on Children and Families


Experts will address the growing need for integrated behavioral health services, emphasizing data-informed care coordination and community-based solutions that support long-term mental health and substance use recovery.
Experts will address the growing need for integrated behavioral health services, emphasizing data-informed care coordination and community-based solutions that support long-term mental health and substance use recovery.

Joseph Conte (Moderator)
Executive DirectorStaten Island Performing Provider System

Michael LaRocca
Founder and CEOReady Computing

Pamela Mattel
CEOCoordinated Behavioral Care

Jon R. Cohen, M.D.
President & CEOTalkspace

Eva Wong
Executive DirectorNYC Mayor’s Office of Community Mental Health

Joshua Rubin
Vice President, Client SolutionsHealth Management Associates


With maternal health disparities on the rise, panelists will examine how targeted interventions, timely alerts, and cross-sector collaboration can improve outcomes for birthing people—particularly in underserved populations.
With maternal health disparities on the rise, panelists will examine how targeted interventions, timely alerts, and cross-sector collaboration can improve outcomes for birthing people—particularly in underserved populations.

Vanessa Pino Lockel (Moderator)
Executive DirectorCornell Cooperative Extension of Suffolk

Isaac P. Dapkins, MD
Chief Medical OfficerFamily Health Centers at NYU Langone

Dr. Wendy Wilcox
Chief Women’s Health OfficerNYC Health + Hospitals

Shawnee Benton Gibson
CEOSpirit of a Woman (S.O.W.), LLC

Patricia O. Loftman, CNM, LM, MS, FACNM
MemberNYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene's Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee


As affordability continues to be a major barrier to access, this discussion will center on innovative approaches to reducing the financial burden on patients and health systems through value-based models and data-driven efficiencies.
As affordability continues to be a major barrier to access, this discussion will center on innovative approaches to reducing the financial burden on patients and health systems through value-based models and data-driven efficiencies.

Michael Costa (Moderator)
SVP, Provider Network & Population HealthEmblemHealth

Allison Sesso
President & CEOUndue Medical Debt

Avital Havusha
Vice President for ProgramsNew York Health Foundation

Dr. Eliza Ng
Chief Medical OfficerCAIPA IPA & MSO

Paul Nagle
Executive DirectorStonewall Community Development Corporation

Errol Pierre
Chief Growth OfficerHealthfirst


This session will explore the critical connection between housing insecurity and chronic disease management, highlighting how social determinants of health must be integrated into care planning and policy to deliver meaningful change.
This session will explore the critical connection between housing insecurity and chronic disease management, highlighting how social determinants of health must be integrated into care planning and policy to deliver meaningful change.

Allan Clear (Moderator)
Director, Office of Drug User Health, AIDS InstituteNew York State Department of Health

Virginia Shubert
Senior Advisor, Policy and ResearchHousing Works Inc.

Laurie Lanphear, CCM
Executive DirectorNY Health Home Coalition

Cynthia Wilson
Senior Director | Homeless Security and Quality of Life ProgramMetropolitan Transportation Authority

Dawn M. Pinnock
President and CEOCenter for Urban Community Services

Jeremy L Kaplan
Executive DirectorEncore Community Services