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2024 Healthcare Delivery Science: Innovation and Partnerships for Health Equity Research (DESCIPHER) Symposium
Amytis Towfighi1,2,3,4,5, Allison Z Orechwa1,2
1Southern California Healthcare Delivery Science Center California Los Angeles USA.
Learning Health Systems
|January 19, 2026
Summary
The 2024 Healthcare Delivery Science Symposium united diverse experts to share strategies for advancing health equity. Key themes included social determinants of health, community engagement, and ethical technology use.
Area of Science:
- Healthcare Delivery Science
- Health Equity Research
- Innovation in Health
Background:
- The Southern California Healthcare Delivery Science Center hosts an annual symposium focused on health innovation.
- The 2024 event gathered diverse stakeholders including healthcare professionals, researchers, policymakers, and advocates.
Purpose of the Study:
- To explore innovative strategies for advancing health equity.
- To foster discussion on social determinants of health and healthcare delivery interventions.
Main Methods:
- Panels featured patients, health system leaders, and researchers discussing four key themes.
- Included conceptual frameworks for social determinants of health, community-engaged interventions, system-based strategies, and ethical technology use.
- Poster presentations and interactive break-out sessions facilitated engagement.
Main Results:
- Discussions highlighted social determinants as fundamental drivers of health inequities.
- Effective strategies involved interdisciplinary collaboration, lived experience engagement, community-centered interventions, ethical AI use, and policy reform.
Conclusions:
- The symposium successfully convened stakeholders to exchange ideas and strategies for advancing health equity.
- Emphasis was placed on interdisciplinary collaboration, innovation, policy reform, lived experience, community involvement, and data-driven approaches.
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