The Healthcare Inclusion Task Force at the Financial Services Innovation Coalition works to eliminate health disparities in underserved communities by advocating for equitable healthcare access and inclusive health policies. We collaborate with stakeholders to create programs that empower communities and bridge gaps in healthcare accessibility and quality.
Dr. Sajdah Wendy Muhammad is an effective business leader, entrepreneur, and global thought leader with exemplary management, organizational, and strategic thinking skills and a proven record of accomplishments in initiating and managing change. Wendy has handled every aspect of business, from project management, process improvements, crisis management, contract negotiations, financial reporting, auditing, and internal control analysis, with a demonstrated ability to implement decisions and achieve corporate goals. Wendy began her formal career with Price Waterhouse Coopers and worked as an independent business consultant and project leader. She has trained thousands of entrepreneurs and emerging leaders and managed and developed over $200 million in projects and businesses.
Pamela Warner has always been a passionate believer of productivity, upward mobility and teamwork. Pam has been in the insurance business since 2014 and finds it very rewarding. She is licensed in several states in the U.S. It’s not just a career but a mission to make sure people have access to healthcare. She has over 20 years of management experience, and her duties include maintaining certifications and ensuring that her staff has proper certifications. She has also managed three successful businesses, and has always had the ability to bring teams together which translated into success. Throughout the years, Pam received rewards including homecoming court, CMS Circle of Champions (The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services) for superior service. She received an award from Financial Cures for her continued work in the community regarding healthcare advocacy. Because of her love for education, she taught in the public school system for almost 10 years.
Brenda A. Leath is a biomedical ethicist and health policy strategist with a career spanning more than 30 years in the healthcare industry. Dr. Leath’s career reflects a continuous and piercing focus on the pursuit of health equity through her work in various settings– academic medical centers, public policy, corporate research, and nonprofit organizations. Among her accomplishments include various leadership positions, special appointments, and recognitions such as President & CEO of Leath & Associates, Inc. – where consultant engagements are in public health, health equity and quality improvement, maternal and child health, and health disparities research. She is the Senior Consultant on Health Equity, Research, and Ethics to the Tuskegee Macon County Community Foundation. She was formerly a Senior Study Director and the Founding Director of the Center on Health Disparities and Health Equity Research at Westat, Inc.; President Emeritus of the National Consortium for African American Children (NCAAC); Associate Director of Special Population Initiatives at the congressionally established National Commission to Prevent Infant Mortality, where she founded NCAAC as an initiative; White House Appointment to the President’s Committee for People with Intellectual Disabilities (PCID) by United States President George W. Bush. She has numerous organizational affiliations including with the American Public Association’s Health Informatics Information Technology Section; the Standards Accreditation Committee of The Task Force for Global Health, Inc, MedSurplus Alliance; and the Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity.