Dr. Rishi Manchanda is CEO at HealthBegins. He has advanced bold strategies to help health care move upstream and advance health equity for historically marginalized patients and communities throughout his career as physician, executive, and public health champion. Dr. Manchanda served as the founding director of social medicine for a network of community health centers in South-Central Los Angeles, as the first lead primary care physician for homeless veterans at the Greater Los Angeles VA, and as the inaugural chief medical officer for a self-insured employer with a large rural agricultural workforce. In his book—The Upstream Doctors—and TED Talk, he introduced “Upstreamists,” a new model of healthcare professionals who improve outcomes by addressing the social and structural drivers of health equity—patients’ social needs, community-level social determinants of health, and structural determinants of health equity including structural racism.

Dr. Sandel is a Professor at Boston University’s School of Medicine and School of Public Health and Vice Chair of Clinical Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Boston Medical Center. She Co-leads the Grow Clinic for Children, co-lead Principal Investigator of Children’s HealthWatch and PI of the Boston Opportunity System Collaborative, advocating for place-based investing and health equity. A national expert in housing and child health, Dr. Sandel has authored over 100 papers and served on several national committees. She holds an MD from Dartmouth and an MPH from BU.

Dr. Solomon is a Professor of Health Systems Science (HSS) at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine. As an inaugural member of the school’s faculty, he develops curricula, teaches and mentors students, and contributes to the school’s research and community engagement programs. He directs the school’s Health Systems Science Phase 3 Selectives program in which 3rd and 4th year medical students are placed in KP and community-based organizations for non-clinical rotations that provide opportunities for students to apply their HSS skills, a required part of the school’s innovative curriculum. Dr. Solomon joined Kaiser Permanente’s Community Health Program in 2003. As Vice President of Community Health, he oversaw the design, execution and evaluation of the organization’s community-based initiatives, and led efforts to ensure the program’s responsiveness to evolving community health needs. He also worked closely with other health plan and medical group leaders to develop and implement Kaiser Permanente’s multi-faceted strategy for addressing the social drivers of health, including the organization’s efforts to identify and address the social needs of Kaiser Permanente members and the communities it serves. Prior to coming to Kaiser Permanente, Dr. Solomon served as Deputy Director of the California Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) for Healthcare Quality and Analysis where he oversaw the state’s hospital outcomes reporting program and analyses of racial and ethnic health disparities. He served as a senior manager at the Lewin Group in Washington, D.C. and as a member of Senator Edward Kennedy’s health staff. Dr. Solomon received his Ph.D. in Health Policy from Harvard University and a Master of Public Policy degree at University of California, Berkeley.

Laura is the founding co-director of SIREN and a professor of family and community medicine at the University of California San Francisco.