Oct. 27, 2025
Contact Rick Kyte at 608-796-3704 or rlkyte@viterbo.edu
LA CROSSE, Wis. – Learn about the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Center for Health Justice’s efforts to engage the health community, collect evidence and share expertise, and ease the path to better health for all with a presentation at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6 in the Viterbo University Reinhart Center room 134.
“Health Justice as a Path to Health Equity” will be delivered by Carla Alvardo, PhD, the director of research at the AAMC Center for Health Justice. Alvardo works to ensure the quality of research and the application of asset-based and intersectionality frameworks to the center’s research to inform policies and actions that address health inequities. Her expertise ranges from health policy, public health, and population health to intersectionality and health equity. She has previous experience in industry, government, academic, and nonprofit settings.
Alvardo earned a doctoral degree in public health with a focus on health policy from Oregon State University College of Public Health and Human Sciences. She also earned a master’s in public health with a focus on management, policy, and community health from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health and a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Texas at El Paso.
The AAMC Center for Health Justice collaborates with academic health systems, public health and community-based organizations, government and health care entities, the private sector, community leaders, and community members to improve the health of people everywhere. The Center builds a case for health justice through research, analysis, and collaborations that drive our efforts to build a better future.
This event is part of the D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership fall lecture series. It is free and open to the public. No tickets are necessary, but seating is limited. For a full schedule of D.B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership events, visit www.viterbo.edu/ethics.
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