Frequently Asked Questions

Registration for the 2025 Accelerating Health Equity Conference is open! Register.

Registration requires a valid email, personal information, and payment details. Click here to register.

You can register another person or more at the same time; you will need to know each person’s name, title, company, and email address. Once you have started the registration of one person, click through to the Registration Summary page, then click the "Add Group Member" button located at the bottom of the page.

We accept payment via credit card (American Express, Visa, MasterCard or Discover).

No. Registration for this conference is only online.

An invoice/receipt is emailed with each conference registration confirmation.

By attending the Accelerating Health Equity Conference offered by the American Hospital Association, participants may earn up to 18 ACHE Qualified Education Hours toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) designation. Additionally, attendees can download a Certificate of Attendance after conference to use for other CEUs. 

Click the link in your confirmation email to modify your registration.

You can send substitutes at any time. Please contact us at healthequity@aha.org.

If you must cancel entirely, your request for a refund – minus a $150 processing fee – must be made on the registration website no later than April 21, 2025.

Cancellations made after April 21, 2025, are not eligible for a refund. Use your email address and confirmation number to log onto the website and click “Cancel Registration.”

The in-person conference will take place in Atlanta on May 19-22, 2025.

At this time, we are not offering a virtual opportunity.

The Accelerating Health Equity Conference brings together over 1,000 leaders (e.g., directors, VPs, SVPs) who work in hospitals, health systems, public health and community-based organizations and focusing on:

• Community health and investment
• Population health management
• External affairs
• Strategy and mission
• Diversity, equity and inclusion

Visit the About page to learn more about who attends the conference.

You will be able to share a conference playbook with your team to convey key information about the conference to people who did not attend. Examples of information you might include are:

• Executive summary of key themes, concerns, ideas and promising practices
• Keynote session highlights
• Specific breakout session highlights (e.g., program ideas or recommendations)
• Networking opportunities (e.g., who you met, why they are important, and the professional benefits of building a relationship with them)
• Information about products and services gathered from conversations with vendors in the exhibit hall

Visit the 2024 Playbook for a recap of the 2024 conference.

The dress code for the conference is business casual.

By attending the Accelerating Health Equity Conference offered by the American Hospital Association, participants may earn up to 18 ACHE Qualified Education Hours toward initial certification or recertification of the Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE) designation. A Certificate of Attendance will be available after the conference to those who complete the evaluation.

Yes! Check out the Attendee and Partner Digital Toolkit for language and images you can use to promote the conference.

Please email healthequity@aha.org to obtain a copy.

The Story Slam is an opportunity to present “story slam” style in lieu of a traditional poster session as a means for sharing original content about your organization’s efforts to improve community and population health, while advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The Story Slam will take place during a dedicated time at the conference. This is an opportunity to connect with peers, ask questions and share key takeaways from the experience.

A hotel room block will be secured for conference registrants. Individuals must be registered for the conference to obtain access to the group housing site. Information to book a hotel room in the room block at the above rate will be provided in your registration confirmation email.

Attendees, speakers, and sponsors are responsible for booking and paying for their own hotel and travel. The conference and hotel location is:

Hilton Atlanta
255 Courtland St NE, Atlanta, GA 30303

 

Visit our Hotel and Travel webpage for more travel information and special discounts.

We reserve the right to postpone the conference due to the ongoing impact of COVID-19 and as part of the AHA’s continuing efforts to support frontline health care professionals, educators and leaders.

Health care leaders work every day to ensure the safety of their patients and teams, and AHA prioritizes the same goal—preserving your health and safety. While masks may not be required at this conference, we support your choice to wear or forgo a mask. Masks will be available at the conference registration desk if you would like to wear one as a precaution. We will decide on mask requirements closer to the conference date and notify attendees via email.

The call for content closed on September 19, 2024. Be sure to submit a proposal next fall for the chance to speak at the 2026 conference.

We anticipate that some sessions will be formed by combining several proposals. Therefore, we recommend four speakers in total for each session, with one speaker acting as a moderator.

The deadline to submit a proposal was September 19, 2024 at 11:59 C.T.

The AHA will notify all submitters of their application status via email in early December 2024.

Yes. All confirmed presenters are responsible for their own travel, accommodation expenses, and registration fee. The discounted registration fee for presenters is $575.

The deadline for submitting and editing proposals was September 19, 2024.