A global and diverse group of leaders from academia, government, health care, and private industry gathered in April for a conference on The Role of Data in Public Health Equity and Innovation.

From left: Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, MD, MHS ’06, the inaugural associate dean for health equity research at Yale School of Medicine, founding director of Yale’s Equity Research and Innovation Center (ERIC), and director of Yale’s Center for Community Engagement and Health Equity; Professor Bola Owolabi, director of Healthcare Inequalities at the National Health Service (NHS) England, and NHS Improvement; and conference organizer Kaakpema “KP” Yelpaala, MPH ’06, senior fellow in public health, and faculty director of InnovateHealth Yale.