The American Hospital Association is bringing together leaders from hospitals, health systems, public health departments and community organizations for the 2027 Healthier Together Conference, May 4-6 in Anaheim, Calif.

This dynamic event will highlight data-driven strategies and innovative approaches to expand access to care, advance person-centered interventions, strengthen hospital-community partnerships, and explore collaborative solutions to reduce disparities in health outcomes and bolster resilience in the health care field.

 
 
 

Focus Areas

Conference sessions fall under five primary content tracks:

  • Reducing Disparities in Health Outcomes — Recognizes initiatives that measurably reduce disparities in health outcomes, advance care for all populations and highlight the economic impact of reducing health disparities.
  • Leveraging Data to Drive Health Impact — Focuses on leading practices in data assessment, integration and analytics to prioritize population and community health needs, uncover and quantify the economic value of addressing health disparities, and guide data-driven targeted interventions.
  • Care Delivery Transformation — Covers the work being done to redesign care models to address health and social needs – including for expecting mothers, children, people with disabilities and older adults – by delivering services where people live and thrive.
  • Strengthening Cross-Sector Partnerships — Highlights strategies for building and sustaining effective partnerships between health care systems, public health agencies and community-based organizations to support the health and well-being of patients and community members.
  • Centering Communities in Health Solutions — Covers the process of actively engaging patients and communities in the co-design of health programs and interventions to ensure solutions are responsive, accessible and sustainable. 

Browse the 2026 conference agenda to see what sessions under each of the content tracks covered.

Who Attends

The Healthier Together Conference is geared for leaders (e.g., managers, directors, vice presidents, senior vice presidents, etc.) who work to improve health outcomes and address health disparities. These leaders generally work in the following fields:

  • Access and opportunity
  • Care Delivery Redesign
  • Community and patient engagement
  • Community benefit
  • Community health
  • Population health
  • Population level data collection and analytics
  • Public health
  • Social drivers of health

Check out the organizations that were represented at the 2026 conference! 

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