See you at the TRUST Forum!
Thursday, May 8, 2025 @ Renaissance Minneapolis Hotel, The Depot
4:30 p.m. – Networking
6:00 p.m. – Dinner followed by Keynote & Award Recognition
Experience the power of connections and celebrate award-winning health care leaders at the TRUST Forum, featuring keynote speaker Dr. Rachel Hardeman, one of TIME’s 2024 100
most influential people in the world!
Dr. Hardeman, recipient of the 2025 TRUST 21st Century Pinnacle Leader Award, will deliver a message of inspiration, offering leaders valuable guidance to navigate their personal and professional journeys.
About Keynote Speaker, Dr. Rachel Hardeman
Dr. Rachel R. Hardeman is a tenured Professor in the Division of Health Policy & Management at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health, the Blue Cross Endowed Professor in Health and Racial Equity, and the Founding Director of the Center for Antiracism Research for Health Equity (CARHE, pronounced “care”). She serves as a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the CDC, and she was named one of TIME’s 2024 TIME100 most influential people in the world. A racial health equity researcher, she studies a critical and complex determinant of health inequity—racism. Her work contributes to a body of knowledge that links structural racism to health in tangible ways, identifies opportunities for intervention, and dismantles the systems, structures, and institutions that allow inequities to persist.
Dr. Hardeman leverages the frameworks of critical race theory and Reproductive Justice to inform her equity-centered work, which aims to build the empirical evidence of racism’s impact on health. Her published work has elicited important conversations on the topics of culturally-centered care, police brutality and structural racism as a fundamental cause of health inequities. Since founding CARHE in 2021, Dr. Hardeman has built upon a foundation of authentic community and academic partnerships, deepening her work with Reproductive Justice and expanding into new areas. CARHE’s research projects encompass maternal and infant health, adolescent and child health, older adult health, innovative measurements of structural racism, economy and labor, and criminal justice. Narrative change is also a core mission at CARHE, and the team actively engages in serving as trusted resources for journalists, policy makers, and community members in Minnesota and across the U.S.
About the TRUST Forum
Our annual Forum is our signature event focused on inspiring and connecting women leaders in the health care industry. What makes the TRUST Forum so special?
- Networking opportunities to create new connections and strengthen existing relationships.
- New ideas and inspiration to elevate your impact.
- Celebrate outstanding leaders with a number of awards.
- Dinner and refreshments to keep you nourished through the night.
More information will be available soon, including speaker, emcee and registration!
About the TRUST
With more than 450 members representing nearly 200 different companies, the Women’s Health Leadership TRUST is part of an incredible legacy of extraordinary women and impact. Our mission is simple: build a community of belonging and grow the next generation of innovative health leadership.
We work to lift the women around us. We are here to respond to our community when they want to exchange business ideas, seek career advice or find a compassionate heart.
If you are not a current TRUST member, please consider joining!
