Keynote – Pursuing Health Justice: Charting the Path, Staying the Course
This session will cover the threats and growing challenges to realizing health equity and key advocacy strategies to overcome these threats and challenges, such as how improving and expanding Medicaid, transforming the delivery of care, advancing data justice and assuring accountability for achieving health equity, and centering impacted people and places.
Presenter: Staci Lofton, MPH, JD, Senior Director of Health Equity, Families USA
About Staci
Staci Lofton is the Senior Director for Health Equity at Families USA. She is a public health leader with 17 years of experience fighting to make our health care system work for people regardless of their race, gender or where they live, at local, state and national levels. Before
joining Families USA, Lofton worked at Harris County Public Health in Texas, addressing inequality in health and the COVID-19 pandemic. She served as a Public Health Adviser and Health Scientist at the CDC, from 2004-2012, overseeing 12 national, state and local public health programs. She is passionate about fighting to fix our health care system through strategy, policy, and partnership development so it can provide everyone high-quality care, regardless of their race, gender, or where they live. Lofton holds an MPH in Sociomedical Sciences: Urbanism and the Built Environment from Columbia University, and a JD in Health Law and Ethics from the University of Houston.