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Health Equity and Lifestyle Project (HELP) Conference
The Health Equity and Lifestyle Project (HELP) Conference is a three-day in-person conference hosted in partnership between The Plantrician Project and Healthy Heart Nation.
October 10 - 12, 2025
The conference is designed to explore the critical relationship between social determinants of health, health disparities and the role of evidence-based, lifestyle medicine as a critical and underutilized tool in addressing health disparities and reversing the chronic disease burden trend.
The evidence is clear that health disparities, due to race or ethnicity, sex, age, disability, geography, and socioeconomic status, directly influence an individual’s opportunity to actualize a healthy life. In fact, the most influential social determinate of health is zip code.
Large health disparities exist in rural and urban populations around the world with evidence highlighting the undeniable fact that the lower a person’s socio-economic status the greater their risk of poor health.
87% of premature deaths due to non-communicable diseases occur in low to middle income countries.
Every day 16,000 children die before their fifth birthday.
Life expectancy varies by 34 years between countries.
In low-income, low-access areas, 50% of the population has limited access to supermarkets and grocery stores.
Cardiovascular disease disproportionately affects non-Hispanic blacks and individuals of lower socio-economic status.
Diet related disparities mirror the increased proportion of cardiovascular disease in at-risk populations.
Inequalities exert significant social, relational, and economic costs to individuals, families, communities, healthcare, and nations.
Food “swamps” present in low-income communities have a greater density of fast-food restaurants and convenience stores that serve as primary food resources.
Food budgets in low-income areas are insufficient to ensure a healthy diet.
The lifestyle medicine movement needs to be accelerated in communities with the greatest burden of health inequities. HELP is the first national conference solely focused on catalyzing the conversation around health disparities, chronic disease, and the evidence-based role of nutrition and lifestyle to dramatically lower rates of chronic disease and establish more equitable and resilient health.
HELP conference will be an annual catalyst for change, cultivating education, conversations, and igniting action to help change the future of healthcare and health equity in the United States.
The conference will:
Show how diet-related disparities mirror the increased proportion of cardiovascular disease in at-risk populations
Serve as the seed bed for nationally recognized programs that dramatically improve healthy food access and health in marginalized communities
Support the creation of seminal research demonstrating the positive impact of lifestyle medicine in reversing the trend of chronic disease and health inequity
Increase awareness and understanding of the health crisis in marginalized communities nationally and internationally
Create thoughtful and culturally relevant tools and resources to help leaders empower their communities
Connect key leaders to collaboratively work on reproducible solutions through shared knowledge and resources
Train the next generation of HBCU healthcare profession faculty, students, and leaders by equipping them with solutions that prioritize health equity and disease reversal and prevention
Unite leaders from medicine, business, faith-based, government, education, and the community to cultivate and build impactful relationships.
Additional Information
IN-PERSON FULL ACCESS to the 2025 Health Equity Lifestyle Project (HELP) Conference with up to 15 hours of educational content and inspiring discussion
Opportunity to network and collaborate with health, community and faith-based leaders and experts on health equity
SIX (6) DELICIOUS PLANT-BASED MEALS ARE INCLUDED. Meals served include reception and dinner Sunday, breakfast, lunch and dinner on Monday, breakfast and lunch on Tuesday
Up to 15 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 CME Credits. (CME's pending. Visit AGENDA page for updated details.)
Presented by preeminent experts in healthy lifestyle, health equity and community impact:
Agenda
Friday, October 10, 2025
12:00 PM – 6:00PM | Registration, Welcome Reception, Opening Dinner / Keynote
5:00PM – 8:30PM | Welcome Reception, Opening Dinner / Keynote
Saturday, October 11, 2025
8:00 AM – 8:00 PM | Session 2 – 10
Sunday, October 12, 2025
8:00 AM – 3:00 PM | Session 11 – 14
Conference Presented by:
Partners
We would to thank our current sponsors:
Sponsorship
If you would like to become a HELP Partner, or sponsor a scholarship for an attendee, please contact Tom Dunnam at The Plantrician Project at [email protected] or 561-810-6713
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