Ron Finley: "A Guerilla Gardner in South Central LA"

Finley opens with humor around the concept of Food Deserts. He speaks about his home, South Central Los Angeles: "home of the drive-thru and the drive-by. Funny thing is, the drive-thrus are killing more people than the drive-bys" (Ron Finley). The talk faces the crude effects of the locations of fast food restaurants and the lack of available healthy food in South Central LA, and what Ron has done to combat this.

Rebecca Onie: "What if our health care system kept us healthy?" and "What Americans agree on when it comes to health"

Onie talks about the consideration of the Social Determinants of Health (or lack thereof) in doctors offices and in the medical field. Her talk is "looking upstream" to look at what is causing health problems before people become sick, and how society can collectively come to address these problems.

Dorothy Roberts: "The problem with race-based medicine"

Roberts talks about how the medical system relies too heavily on race to make false biological predications. Race is a social construct, not a biological or genetic construct. She speaks of personal experience, and observation of medical professionals relying on race as a determining factor for medical diagnoses.

Nadine Burke Harris: "How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime"

Harris looks at the effects of repeated childhood stressors and trauma (Adverse Childhood Experiences - ACE) and the correlation of misdiagnoses among children with high ACE scores and ADD and ADHD.