2025 EVENT SITE
WMIF MAIN SITETuesday, September 16, 2025
01:00 PM - 01:40 PM
The need to develop creative solutions to priority health challenges affecting underserved communities is more important than ever, particularly when it comes to areas such as cancer, cardiometabolic disease, maternal health and substance use disorder. The panelists will offer a unique “community health” entrepreneur perspective, speaking to the driving forces behind their innovative organizations, how they prioritize a community-centered design approach in their work and what the journey has been in getting the financial resources needed to carry out their mission.
Moderator
Elsie Taveras, MD,
Chief Community Health & Health Equity Officer, Mass General Brigham;
Executive Director, Kraft Center for Community Health;
Conrad Taff Endowed Chair and Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School
Speakers
Alisha Lalani,
Chief Growth Officer, Mae Health
Kwamane Liddell,
Founder & CEO, ThriveLink
Christopher Thompson,
Founder, Sober Sidekick
Jeffrey Yang, MD,
Thoracic Surgeon; Founding Director, Center for Artificial Intelligence & Innovation Research, Mass General Brigham;
Associate Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School