Discover the experiences that make us experts in equity-centered, community-driven solutions to today’s healthcare challenges.

Our professional portfolio highlights the tangible ways in which we prioritize and progress collaboration, community, sustainability, and equity in our local and global networks. The highlighted works and experiences are limited to where information is available and not subject to confidentiality or proprietary laws.

Advocacy.

Coalition building, political advocacy experience, and leadership in support of equitable and collaborative health outcomes.

  • Testimony to the Minnesota legislature in support of Paid Family and Medical Leave (video)

  • Appointment to the inaugural Health Equity Advisory and Leadership (HEAL) Council by Minnesota Department of Health Commissioner Dr. Ed Ehlinger to address systemic racism as a driver of health inequity (more from MDH)

  • Selection to Wilder’s Community Equity Program, a nine-month intensive fellowship for BIPOC changemakers, including advocating and organizing for progressive health and immigration legislation (more from Wilder)

  • Panelist at Sellers Dorsey conference on actualizing health equity interventions in Medicaid programs (more from Sellers Dorsey)

  • Guest on Insight News’ The Conversation with Al McFarlane show that focused on collaborative efforts to integrate mental health and birth work agendas for Black birthing people (video)

Global Health & Development.

We believe that everyone should be equipped with the knowledge and resources to live a healthy life, and that collaboration and equity transcend geographical borders.

  • Co-facilitation of a two-day session on health and racial equity in global development for the United Nations’ International Organization on Migration (more from Sproutly)

  • Member of USAID Southeast Asia OneHealth University Network, supporting research and community health initiatives in Thailand (more about SEAOHUN)

  • Selection as a Global Health Corps fellow, serving as Social Behavior Change Communications Officer with the Republic of Uganda’s Ministry of Health (more from Global Health Corps)

  • Panelist for Global Health Corps’ Shift Happens: Improving Maternal Healthcare BIPOC (video)

  • Served as co-organizer for Uganda’s inaugural National Conference on Health Promotion and Disease Prevention while working in the Ministry of Health (more from the World Health Organization)

Health Equity lEADERSHIP.

Examples of content creation and collaborative learning models that work to change systems to protect underserved and systemically under resourced populations.

  • Development of a Health Justice Learning Series focused on supporting organizational staff on their continued journey towards becoming health justice champions (more on our Services page)

  • Creation of an accredited health equity activity for healthcare professionals while serving as Health Equity Director at UnitedHealthcare (more from Optum Health Education)

  • Development of IDI-based strategic planning process for clinical organizations looking to enhance ability to center organizational policies and procedures in equity and intercultural competence

  • Co-developed St.Paul-Ramsey County’s Mental Health and Wellness Action Team (more about MHWAT)

  • Unconscious Bias and Its Impact on Public Health and Health-Care Systems (read article)

  • Clipper Clinic: An Academic and Community Collaborative Model to Addressing Health Disparities within Underserved Communities (read article)

  • Guest on Bottomless Coffee w/ Jerome to speak about the work C4C does to support collaboration in our health sector and disrupt health inequities (video)

Birth justice.

Equity calls for mitigation. Justice demands that we address the root cause.

  • Co-Founder of ÀBĪYÈ Collective, a birth and postpartum collective focused on promoting the wellbeing of the birthing person during their pregnancy and childbirth experience by empowering them to build a community that reflects the values that are most important to share with their child as they bring them earthside (more about ÀBĪYÈ Collective)

  • Former Co-Leader and collaborator (current) with the St. Paul and Ramsey County Birth Equity Council dedicated to uplifting and funding community-led collaborative processes where action steps and solutions address individual, community, and system-level interventions that address disparities in health outcomes among U.S.-born Black birthing people (more from Ramsey County)

  • Facilitated a conversation with doula, educator, birth justice activist, author and founder of Birthing Advocacy Doula Trainings Sabia Wade for their 2023 Birthing Liberation book tour, in partnership with Black Garnet Books and ÀBĪYÈ Collective (learn more about the collaboration)

  • Guest academic lecturer at universities and colleges including Howard University, Hamline University (video), University of Minnesota’s School of Medicine, and the UMNs Allied Health Professionals Programs on topics that range from the history of birth work in the United States to the importance of actualizing birth equity frameworks in academic and clinical settings

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Dr. Abiola Abu-Bakr, DNP, and Conduit for Collaboration Consulting can bring this expertise and leadership to your most wicked public health & health equity problems.