Sullivan Alliance
The Sullivan Alliance aims to strengthen the capacity and quality of the nation’s health workforce by increasing the number of historically marginalized people in every area of health care and across all aspects of academic health centers.
Advisory Committee
Louis W. Sullivan, MD
President Emeritus
Morehouse School of Medicine
Former Secretary
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 1989-1993
David A. Acosta, MD
Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer
AAMC
H. Dele Davies, MD, MS, MHCM
Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Dean for Graduate Studies
University of Nebraska Medical Center
Sonja Harris-Haywood, MD
Associate Dean, College of Medicine
Clinical Associate Professor of Family and Community Medicine
Northeast Ohio Medical University
Ronny B. Lancaster, Esquire
Former Senior Vice President of Government Relations
Assurant, Inc.
Ricardo Martinez, MD, FACEP
Chief Medical Officer
Adeptus Health
Reginald W. Miller, DVM, DACLAM
Senior Research Integrity Officer, Mount Sinai Health System
Dean for Research-Operations and Infrastructure
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Marc A. Nivet, EdD, MBA
Executive Vice President for Institutional Advancement
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Wayne J. Riley, MD, MBA, MPH, MACP
President
SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
Jeanne Sinkford, DDS, PhD
Former Professor and Dean Emeritus
Howard University College of Dentistry
Former Senior Scholar-in-Residence
American Dental Education Association
Valerie N. Williams, PhD
Ex Officio Member
Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Faculty Development
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
Steven L. Kanter, MD
Ex Officio Member
Special Advisor to the President and CEO, AAMC
Executive Director, AAHCI
Lectures
2022 Annual Sullivan Lecture
"A Long-Term Strategy to Eliminate Healthcare Disparities: Love, Hope, and Passion”
John W. Bluford, III, MBA, FACHE
Founder and President of the Bluford Healthcare Leadership Institute
2021 Annual Sullivan Lecture
“Developing a More Equitable Health Culture in America”
Wayne J. Riley, MD, MPH, MBA, MACP
President, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University
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2020 Annual Sullivan Lecture
“Addressing Inequities in Health Status and Access to Health Care in the 20th and 21st Centuries”
Louis W. Sullivan, MD
Former Secretary, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (1989-1993)
President Emeritus, Morehouse School of Medicine
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History
Under the leadership of Louis W. Sullivan, MD, former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, The Sullivan Alliance to Transform the Health Professions was originally organized in January 2005 to act on the reports and recommendations of the Sullivan Commission and the Institute of Medicine Committee on Institutional and Policy-Level Strategies for Increasing the Diversity of the U.S. Healthcare Workforce.
From the beginning, the Sullivan Alliance’s initiatives were prioritized to cross the health professions of medicine, dentistry, nursing, psychology, and public health with the expectation that efforts in these areas will also benefit the other health professions. The Sullivan Alliance also enabled and promoted the development of state alliances and regional consortiums of minority undergraduate colleges with academic health centers. The Sullivan Alliance was formally passed on to become a central program of the AAHC in January 2020.
The AAHC merged with the AAMC in 2022. In June 2022, the Louis W. Sullivan, MD, Award was named an AAMC presidential award by the AAMC Board of Directors, and, beginning in 2023, includes an annual Sullivan Lecture at the AAMC's annual meeting, Learn Serve Lead. More information on the Louis W. Sullivan, MD, Award is available here.
In the News
“Sullivan Alliance Award Recipients Honored at AAHCI Global Innovation Forum" (PDF)
April 2023
“Opinion: Outreach Key to Boosting Vaccination Rate”
Feb. 9, 2021 | Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Politics around Masks, Social Distancing and Vaccines is Making America Sicker”
Oct. 27, 2020 | MarketWatch interview with Dr. Sullivan
"Opinon: Building a Health Culture in America”
Aug. 9, 2020 | Atlanta Journal Constitution
“AAHC and Sullivan Alliance Join Forces to Accelerate Diversity in Healthcare”
Feb. 24, 2020