Thank You For Another Amazing Year!
The 2025 Health Summit: LA40by2030 Mapping the Distance to the Goal has concluded with great success and we owe it to you. Great gratitude to our sponsors and partners, our awesome planning team and volunteers, who have played a huge role in hosting this impactful convening, and our amazing speakers that met and exceeded our expectations in addressing the summit objectives.
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2025 Health Summit: LA40by2030 Mapping the Distance to the Goal
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The Louisiana Center for Health Equity (LCHE), in collaboration with the Louisiana Department of Health, New Orleans Health Department, Dillard University, and our statewide partners, convened the 10th Annual Health Summit: LA40by2030 Mapping the Distance to the Goal on September 23-24, 2025.
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The summit highlighted ten years of impactful work, collective action, and explored innovative approaches to improving the health and well-being of our communities. Since its inception, the Health Summit has grown into a powerful platform for collaboration, strategy, and action toward better health outcomes for all Louisianans.
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This year, the summit welcomed Lieutenant General Russel L. Honoré (Retired), back to the podium as the Opening Keynote Speaker. Honoré delivered the inaugural keynote address during the first LCHE Health Summit in 2016. Regularly held in Baton Rouge, this year’s summit brought together individuals from across the state, and nation, to New Orleans during a pivotal year for the city. Recognizing the 10th year of Medicaid expansion and the 20th Anniversary of hurricanes Katrina & Rita, health equity in Louisiana could not have been more critical to address.​
​The goal of the 2025 Health Summit was to assess progress toward improving health equity and achieving the LA40by2030 Initiative, identify key gaps and barriers, and develop collaborative, data-driven strategies to close the distance between the state’s current health rankings and its goal.
The ultimate goal of our collective work is LA40by2030, or for Louisiana to rank in the top 40th states for health outcomes by the year 2030. This work includes identifying, developing, and promoting practices and policies that are favorable to children and families.
The summit sessions focused on:
• Data-Driven progress toward LA40by2030
• Advancing health equity through policy and systems change
• Strategizing evidence-based solutions to accelerate progress
• Enhancing community engagement and partnerships
• Youth leadership and intergenerational health equity
This year’s Health Summit marked a decade of bringing together a powerful coalition of change-makers from across Louisiana. Healthcare professionals, service providers, insurers, researchers, educators, faith-based and nonprofit organizations, law enforcement, and businesses joined policymakers, elected officials, advocates, community health leaders, and members of the public. Together, they focused on developing key strategies and promoting alignment and collaboration to advance health outcomes across the state. As we continue to celebrate our 10th anniversary, we invite you to be part of the conversation and the movement, shaping the years to come.​
2025 Health Summit Poster Session
The Health Equity Poster Session at the 2025 Louisiana Center for Health Equity's Annual Health Summit featured college students from across Louisiana to present their innovative research, interventions, and policies aimed at reducing health disparities and promoting equitable healthcare for all populations. This session offered a unique platform to showcase work that addresses pressing issues in Chronic Disease, Community Safety, Maternal and Child Health, or Behavioral Health. By highlighting diverse approaches to tackling these challenges, the session fostered collaboration and inspired meaningful discussions among participants, ultimately contributing to the development of effective strategies that improve health outcomes for underserved and marginalized communities.
Health Summit Creative Showcase
This year's health summit featured a creative showcase designed to highlight artists, poets, and scientists and other creatives, all of whom shared a collective commitment to the promotion of health equity and the eliminates of health disparities across Louisiana and beyond. These high school and college students were invited to submit artwork, photographs, poetry, and data visualizations that represented their visions for improved health outcomes. In direct response to Louisiana's usual ranking among the last in the nation in health outcomes, this exhibit aimed to recognize, reimagine, and inspire alternative possibilities for health and resilience in Louisiana.
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