Primary Care Forward: Driving New York’s Health Care Transformation

Primary Care Forward: Driving New York’s Health Care Transformation

Primary care is essential to a healthier, more equitable, and sustainable health care system. Primary Care First: Driving New York’s Health Care Transformation will bring together leaders and innovators to explore ideas with the potential to transform primary care across New York State.

The conversation will focus on three key opportunities: strengthening the primary care workforce, ensuring sustained investment in primary care, and harnessing technology and AI to improve access, quality, and outcomes. Together, we will explore what it will take to move from incremental change to meaningful transformation—and make primary care a driver of New York’s health care future.

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Tuesday, November 10, 2026

8:30 AM – 12:00 PM

8:30 AM – 12:00 PM

Museum of Jewish Heritage

36 Battery Place,

2nd Floor Events Hall,

New York, NY 10208

Museum of Jewish Heritage

36 Battery Place,

2nd Floor Events Hall,

New York, NY 10208

Dress Attire:

Parking Information:

Additional Information:

 

Agenda

8:30 AM EST

30 MINS
8:30 AM EST 30 MINS

Networking, Registration and Breakfast

Connect with New York’s health care policymakers, providers, advocates, funders, innovators and industry leaders to explore how primary care can drive health care transformation across the state.

Connect with New York’s health care policymakers, providers, advocates, funders, innovators and industry leaders to explore how primary care can drive health care transformation across the state.

Connect with New York’s health care policymakers, providers, advocates, funders, innovators and industry leaders to explore how primary care can drive health care transformation across the state.

Connect with New York’s health care policymakers, providers, advocates, funders, innovators and industry leaders to explore how primary care can drive health care transformation across the state.

9 AM EST

10 MINS
9 AM EST 10 MINS

Opening Remarks

Aparna Mekala
Aparna Mekala
CEO
Primary Care Development Corporation
Aparna Mekala
Aparna Mekala
CEO
Primary Care Development Corporation
Aparna Mekala
Aparna Mekala
CEO
Primary Care Development Corporation

9:10 AM EST

20 MINS
9:10 AM EST 20 MINS

Keynote Speaker Remarks: The State’s Vision for Primary Care

9:30 AM EST

20 MINS
9:30 AM EST 20 MINS

Keynote Speaker Remarks: The City’s Vision for Primary Care

Dr. Alister Martin
Dr. Alister Martin
Commissioner
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Dr. Alister Martin
Dr. Alister Martin
Commissioner
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Dr. Alister Martin
Dr. Alister Martin
Commissioner
NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

9:50 AM EST

50 MINS
9:50 AM EST 50 MINS

Panel 1: Legislative Action

10:40 AM EST

10 MINS
10:40 AM EST 10 MINS

Refreshment Break

10:50 AM EST

50 MINS
10:50 AM EST 50 MINS

Panel 2: Transformation in Practice

11:40 AM EST

20 MINS
11:40 AM EST 20 MINS

Closing Remarks

Aparna Mekala
Aparna Mekala
CEO
Primary Care Development Corporation
Aparna Mekala
Aparna Mekala
CEO
Primary Care Development Corporation
Aparna Mekala
Aparna Mekala
CEO
Primary Care Development Corporation

12 PM EST

12 PM EST

Event Concludes

Presented By