Dr. Rishi Manchanda is CEO at HealthBegins, a national mission-driven consulting and training firm that helps clients and partners transform the social and structural drivers of health equity. He has developed and scaled novel strategies to improve health equity and justice for historically marginalized communities throughout his career. Dr.Manchanda served as the founding director of social medicine for a network of community health centers in South-Central Los Angeles, as the first lead primary care physician for homeless veterans at the Greater Los Angeles VA, and as the inaugural chief medical officer for a self-insured employer with one of the largest rural immigrant workforces in the country. In his 2013 book -The Upstream Doctors - and a 2014 TED Talk, he introduced “Upstreamists”, a new model of healthcare professionals who improve care by helping health systems address the social and structural drivers of health equity - patients’ social needs (e.g. food insecurity and housing stability), community-level social determinants of health, and structural determinants of health equity including structural racism. HealthBegins has directly educated over 20,000 learners to date, while Dr. Manchanda’s TED talk has been viewed over 2 million times, and the book has become recommended reading in universities and medical schools around the world.