Equitable Healthcare Lab

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Equitable Healthcare Lab

Helping medicine fit people—all people.

The Equitable Healthcare Lab engages with industry partners to address the drivers of healthcare inequity. We’re both committed to creating impact and change at the community and health system levels, as well as developing generalizable knowledge and practices for broad use.

UPCOMING EVENT

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A Level Up: Co-Designing Health Systems from Within

March 20, 2026

A Level Up: Co-Designing Health Systems from Within is a half-day conference for-designers, researchers, and health system leaders working inside healthcare organizations to share knowledge and build practices.

We will share and discuss the work of teams who have been advancing these topics throughout the year. And we will foster cross-system learning and connection among those advancing design in health systems.

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LEVEL UP PROCEEDINGS

Critical Topics in Healthcare Delivery Design

Participants in the Equitable Healthcare Lab’s February 2025 Level Up event identified topics deemed critical to the value and performance of healthcare delivery design.

Supported by the Equitable Healthcare Lab, participants developed these ideas post-event into two pre-publications for for community discussion and review.

Pre-Publications

FEATURED REPORT

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It’s Time to Assess the Role of Design in US Health Systems

In this first-of-its-kind assessment, The Role of Design in US Health Systems describes the scope and scale of design’s influence on care delivery in 27 US health systems, through interviews with 48 design leaders and practitioners.