Techquity for Health Case Study Awards

Techquity for Health Case Study Awards is sponsored by HLTH Foundation. This program awards innovations, including digital health tools, technology-enabled health programs, and data projects designed to reduce health disparities or inequities.

Techquity - HLTH Foundation 3rd Annual Techquity for Health Awards Applications Now Open Techquity Award Submissions Due Friday, June 5 Explore the Techquity for Health Database Download the User Guide to Techquity in Healthcare Techquity in healthcare (technology + health equity) is the intentional design, development and distribution of technology to improve outcomes for underserved patients and address structural inequities in healthcare.

Embracing the promise of technology for health equity. We envision a world where digital health is a leading force for health equity, driving continual, exponentially faster and measurable reductions in health disparities.

Given increasing reliance on digital health (including artificial intelligence), prioritizing techquity now is our best chance to solve healthcare’s most pressing issues: preventable disease, loss of life, healthcare labor shortages and their high human and economic costs.

Techquity for Health Initiative Guided by a cross-sector advisory committee, HLTH Foundation is building a practice of techquity to help technology and data innovators build digital tools and programs that foster health equity, and to make better choices available to clinicians, patients, employers and insurers.

through our vision for equitable digital health the industry about the urgent need for action through research and monitor industry progress to stories of techquity as experienced by underserved people those seeking to close the digital divide Techquity Supporting Advisors We’re grateful for our Supporting Advisors, who underwrite and guide the Techquity Initiative as members of the Techquity for Health Advisory Committee. Nana B.

Afoh-Manin MD, MPH, MPA , Chief Medical and Innovation Officer, Shared Harvest Foundation Adimika Arthur, MPH , Executive Director & CEO, HealthTech 4 Medicaid (HT4M) Elizabeth Phillips Boudreau, MSHI , CEO and Co-Founder , Practical Acceleration Zerita Buchanan, DDS, MPH , Assistant Director, Increasing Diversity In Dentistry Pipeline Program Jay Calhoun, MBA , Co-Founder, Intertribal Health Innovation Institute Ricky Y.

Choi, MD, MPH , Clinical Professor, Stanford Medicine Children’s Health Grace Cordovano, MS, PhD, BCPA , CEO, Enlightening Results LLC Larissa DAndrea, MSLS , Healthcare Impact Advisor and Board Secretary, American Sleep Apnea Association Cassie Dawalt , Chief Strategy Officer, SohoMD and Board Member, Outcare Health Shirley Golen, MBA , Global Head of Business Development, Inclusive eXperiences and Technology, Amazon Tanisha D.

Hill, PhD, MPH , Founder and President, Digital Health for Equitable Health Alliance Jen Horonjeff, MS, PhD , Founder and CEO, Savvy Cooperative JeShaune Jackson, MS, MBA , Director, Strategic Alliances, BridgeBio Kate Lewis , Vice President of Marketing and Communications, CareQuest Institute for Oral Health Pooja Mittal, MD , Chief Health Equity Officer, Health Net Sumedha Mongia MD, MBA , Principal Medical Technology Advisor (SETA), ARPA-H Erica Smith (Paine) , Vice President, Value and Market Access, Chiesi USA, Inc. Michael Penn, MD, PhD , Head External Engagement, Population Health Center of Excellence, Genentech USA Kyu Rhee, MD, MPP , President and Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC) Chethan Sarabu, MD, FAMIA, FAAP , Co-Founder, the Climate Health Innovation & Learning Lab Amber Spierer, MPH , Director, External Engagement, Global Health Equity, Johnson & Johnson Daniel Turner-Lloveras, MD , CoFounder, SaludConTech Andrea Werner, MSW , Chief Population Health Officer, Emplify Health by Bellin and Gunderson Health System Charlotte Yeh, MD , Ambassador for Healthy Aging, Yeh Innovation & former Chief Medical Officer, AARP Services Techquity Award Applications are Open Applications for our Techquity for Health Case Study Awards are open and ready for your submissions.

The program will award ten finalists and three winners for innovations that include digital health tools, technology-enabled health programs and data projects designed to reduce health disparities or inequities. Solutions can be patient-, consumer-, or provider-facing.

Learn more about Season 4 and Apply Techquity Awards Season 3 This season’s cohort is redefining excellence in innovation for digital health access and tackling some of the hardest problems in healthcare—clinician burnout in Cameroon, rural care access, suicide prevention for indigenous veterans, and more. Their solutions are proving what’s possible when technology is designed to close gaps.

Thank you to every organization and leader who submitted to season 3 of the Techquity for Health Case Study Awards, a global initiative from the HLTH Foundation spotlighting real-world digital health solutions advancing equity in care, access, and outcomes. Guided by our Techquity Advisory Committee, this program recognizes innovators designing, deploying, and measuring technology and data solutions that close equity gaps.

Techquity Awards Season 2 Congratulations to our 2025 Winners and Finalists! Thank you to our 2025 award ceremony & reception sponsor Learn more about the 2025 Techquity Awards Techquity Awards Season 1 Learn more about techquity in healthcare Get HLTH Foundation updates Health for everyone takes all of us. We look forward to hearing from you.

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