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Healthcare Industry Partners

Bluford Healthcare Leadership Institute

is a 501 (c) 3, intense professional development program with a mission to eliminate health disparities among minority and vulnerable populations by cultivating a pipeline of culturally competent underrepresented scholars for leadership roles in healthcare. Through a series of experiential activities, analysis of healthcare issues with expert national presenters, site visits, and internships, the exposes scholars to today’s healthcare landscape and challenges future leaders to develop innovative solutions and policies to improve health outcomes for vulnerable populations.

Norwell Health

is an 85,000-strong network of collaborators, research pioneers, entrepreneurs and educators. It offers accessibility and social services, including language and communications assistance, specialized senior care, social work, and veterans' health programs. It has more than 12,000 credentialed physicians, more than 19,000 nurses, and more than 5,000 volunteers to help deliver care. 

Johnson & Johnson

For more than 135 years, has aimed to keep people well at every age and every stage of life. They strive to improve access and affordability, create healthier communities, and put a healthy mind, body and environment within reach of everyone, everywhere.150,000 employees across the world are blending heart, science and ingenuity to profoundly change the trajectory of health for humanity. 

Advocate Health Care

is a faith-based nonprofit health system in Illinois. We’re dedicated to changing patient expectations by giving them easy access to all they need to stay well, live well and achieve outstanding treatment outcomes. In 2018, merged with Aurora Health Care of Wisconsin to form Advocate Aurora Health. And in 2022, Advocate Aurora Health and Atrium Health combined to create Advocate Health, the third-largest nonprofit integrated health system in the U.S.

Health Equity Innovation Challenge

Racial and social injustices and inequities have long plagued society and the health of communities of color across the United States. In 2021, Johnson & Johnson created the as a part of the company’s commitment to help eradicate the public health threats of racial and social injustices by eliminating health inequities for people of color. The Challenge aims to support innovative solutions developed by local entrepreneurs, start-ups, innovators, and community-based organizations that have the potential to .