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2016 Los Angeles Global Health Conference: Rishi Manchanda, MD, PhD, Closing keynote

"Moving healthcare upstream: Tackling social determinants of health to transform care and communities" Rishi Manchanda, MD, MPH Rishi Manchanda is Chief Medical Officer of The Wonderful Company, a privately held $4 billion company committed to offering consumers high-quality, healthy brands. Rishi is also presidentof HealthBegins, an organization that provides healthcare providers with upstream quality improvement tools to improve care and the social determinants of health. Prior to joining The Wonderful Company, Rishi worked for the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, where he was the lead physician for homeless primary care, and for a network of community health centers in south Los Angeles, where he was first director of social medicine and health equity. In 2008, Rishi founded RxDemocracy, a nonpartisan coalition that promotes civic engagement and voter registration in doctors' offices and hospitals nationwide. In his 2013 TEDbook, The Upstream Doctors, Rishi introduced a new model of the healthcare workforce that includes "upstreamists" who improve social determinants of health. Rishi earned his bachelor's, medical, and master's of public health degrees from Tufts University and was the first graduate of UCLA's combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency. The Los Angeles Global Health Conference is the inaugural annual global health conference to be hosted in Southern California. Organized by UCLA, USC, and Charles Drew University (CDU) students, the conference aims to educate and connect with members of the UCLA, USC, CDU, and Los Angeles communities about the varying health disparities both in our backyards and around the world. Home to people from more than 140 countries speaking 224 different languages, Los Angeles's rich cultural diversity makes it an ideal place to examine the current status of world health. It is our vision that the Los Angeles Global Health Conference become a space to discuss innovative ways to tackle health disparities—locally and globally.