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Educating and activating health professionals to work toward health equity.

Upcoming events

    • 12 Apr 2025
    • 10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
    • Family Tree Clinic 1919 Nicollet Ave, Minneapolis, MN 55403
    Register

    Join us for a community conversation in partnership with Sex Workers in Minneapolis (SWIM) on improving health for sex workers and engage with an expert panel who will share insights on:

    • Barriers to care which undermine health and exacerbate existing disparities,
    • Community-centered language providers can use to establish a safe clinical environment and work effectively with patients
    • Relevant policies and legislation that can help reduce harm and improve outcomes, and
    • How clinicians can engage in advocacy efforts to better support this community

    Cost
    This event is offered on a pay-what-you-can basis ($0 - $50). Select your preferred donation amount through registration or contribute through our Donate page.

    *More event information and the agenda will be added as available

    Panelists:

    Sandy Bolton, Relationships Evolving Possibilities

    Bobbi Gass, Red Door Clinic

    Aegor Ray, Sex Workers in Minneapolis

    Moderators:

    Dee Fox, Sex Workers in Minneapolis

    Ryan Kelly, Minnesota Doctors for Health Equity

    Additional information:

    • Light food and drink will be available ***Please bring your own coffee mug and/or water bottle.
    • No cost registration available, donations to support this work are appreciated
    • Parking available

    All are welcome. This event is made possible from the support and engagement of our members. While you do not have to be a member to attend, we encourage you to join us. Our members are healthcare professionals and community members who advocate for health equity in all aspects of their professional, public, and private lives.

    Learn more about our membership levels and sign up to join us here.

    If you would prefer to donate to support our educational and advocacy efforts, you can do so here.


Past events

10 Feb 2025 MDHEQ Member Meet Up/ Community Forum
18 Jan 2025 Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience (STAR-lite) Training Conference for Health Care and Community Members
5 Oct 2024 MDHEQ Annual Meeting + Community Conversation- Health care access inside: Advancing equity for incarcerated people
11 Nov 2023 MDHEQ Annual Meeting + Community Conversation- Elevating Wise Practices: Lessons on advancing health justice from community wisdom
1 Aug 2023 Improving health for people who use drugs: Community Conversation on Current and Future Harm Reduction Practices
20 Jun 2023 Summer Social Event
20 Apr 2023 Community Conversation: How can health care providers help address the gun violence crisis?
22 Feb 2023 Health equity for rural Minnesota
29 Oct 2022 2022 Annual Member Meeting
21 Sep 2022 Summer Health Equity Book Club: What We Hunger For: Food and health equity in our refugee and immigrant communities (Part 2)
20 Jul 2022 Summer Social Event
28 Jun 2022 Summer Health Equity Book Club: What We Hunger For: Food and health equity in our refugee and immigrant communities (Part 1)
14 Dec 2021 Member Engagement Opportunities
18 Sep 2021 2nd Annual Member Meeting
7 Sep 2021 Member Engagement Opportunities
4 Aug 2021 MDHEQ Gathering Topic: Racism and Social Rejection is Killing Us
23 Jun 2021 LBGTQ+ Tweet Chat
8 Jun 2021 Member Engagement Opportunities
23 Apr 2021 Civic Health Conference with partner Vot-ER
8 Apr 2021 Health Equity through Voter Engagement
25 Mar 2021 Tweet Chat: Housing is Health
16 Mar 2021 Member Engagement Opportunities
4 Mar 2021 St. Stephen's Human Services: A Day in the Life (2 Part Series)
16 Feb 2021 Housing Action Sessions
2 Feb 2021 Tweet Chat: COVID Disparities
19 Jan 2021 Equity in Palliative Care
13 Jan 2021 Public Housing 101
5 Jan 2021 Member Engagement Opportunities
14 Dec 2020 Health Equity and Telemedicine
19 Nov 2020 Advocacy for Beginners
10 Nov 2020 Election Debrief
3 Nov 2020 Election Day
28 Oct 2020 Defend Glendale Workshop
24 Oct 2020 MDHEQ Annual Meeting
24 Oct 2020 National Vote Early Day
22 Oct 2020 MDHEQ Member Voting Due
22 Sep 2020 Voter Registration Day
18 Sep 2020 Early Voting Starts
30 Aug 2020 Capturing the Flag Screening and Panel
24 Aug 2020 Raise the Alarm Press
11 Aug 2020 Minnesota Primaries
10 Aug 2020 Using the Healthy Democracy Kit to Empower Your Patients, Colleagues, and Staff
7 Aug 2020 Social Worker Civic Health Month Panel
7 Aug 2020 Doctor/Nurse Panel VotER
5 Aug 2020 Medical Student Civic Health Month Panel
5 Aug 2020 From Patients to Voters: Civic Engagement in Health Care
1 Aug 2020 MDHEQ.org Membership Registration Due
31 Jul 2020 Blue Ribbon Commission Session
25 Jun 2020 MDHEQ and TCMS: CME Sugary Beverages
11 Jun 2020 Civic Engagement
6 Jun 2020 Sit-in
30 May 2020 Jim Crow of the North


Mission

Educating and activating health professionals to work toward health equity

Vision

Health Professionals will use their voice, knowledge, and influence to eliminate the inequities that exist in health and healthcare, while working effectively with their patients, health systems, communities, and decision makers to address health equity wherever they live, work, learn, and play.

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