2026 Encoding Health Equity Summit - Opening Remarks-2026 Encoding Health Equity Summit Opening Remarks

2026 Encoding Health Equity Summit Opening Remarks

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Cindy Escobar-Alvarez and Helen Burstein opened the 2026 Encoding Equity meeting, thanking the Doris Duke Foundation for supporting health equity work. The summit focuses on reducing inappropriate use of race in clinical algorithms and guidelines, redesigning equitable decision tools, and improving outcomes. Burstein highlighted the alliance’s growth, its advisory committee, task forces, and 10 specialty society grants that are reassessing guidance, spreading awareness, and identifying non-race explanatory factors. She also announced ENGAGE, a new two-year initiative to update methods for building, evaluating, and teaching algorithms, with partners including MD Calc, ACTS, and NEJM, aiming to advance fairness in clinical decision-making.

Keywords

Encoding Equity

health equity

clinical algorithms

race in medicine

equitable decision tools