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Friday, June 26, 2026

12 PM EST / 9 AM PST

Location - Zoom Webinar


Turning Data Into Action: State Advocacy, Community Health and the New Data Disaggregation Toolkit

Discover how the new State Advocacy Toolkit equips advocates and community members to advance data disaggregation policies and improve community health through more accurate and representative data. This webinar will highlight practical tools and strategies to champion representation, engage in coalition-building, and support implementation efforts at the state level, including opportunities for states to build on the 2024 update to federal Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 (SPD 15).


Participants will learn how more detailed demographic data can help reveal differences in health outcomes that are often overlooked when communities are grouped together and inform more equitable health policies and programs. Join the Data Equity Coalition to explore practical approaches for turning data into action.

Moderator

Courtney Lang

Langco + Partners - a health justice firm

courtney@langcopartners.com

linkedin.com/in/courtneylangjd

Courtney Lang is a strategic communications and policy expert with extensive experience transforming advocacy, grassroots mobilization, and high-impact stakeholder engage-ments. She is the founder and principal of Langco + Partners, a health justice public affairs firm dedicated to building and activating coalitions that accelerate solutions for care across the health delivery system.


A nationally recognized advocate and accomplished change agent, Courtney has advised a wide range of corporate and nonprofit organizations on affordability, inclusion, and access to care. Her leadership has shaped major public health campaigns, accelerated care navigation, and strengthened the interface between physicians, pharmacists, public health leaders, and the patients they collectively serve. She brings together multi-sector partners to advance and harmonize equitable data standards, strengthen data disaggregation, and elevate intersectional identity across research, clinical care, and policy.


Langco + Partners remains steadfast in its commitment to improving the human condition by combating structural racism, advancing care navigation, and exposing racial, linguistic, and geographic disparities. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Trinity Health and previously served as a board director for Mental Health America and adjunct professor of Media Law at her alma mater, Pepperdine University.


She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Pepperdine University, a Juris Doctor from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, and a certificate in Comparative Health Law and Policy from St. Anne’s College, Oxford University.

Panelists

Aishat Magbade

Blue Cross Blue Shield Association

Legislative & Regulatory Policy | Community Health Policy

Aishat Magbade is the Director of Health Equity Policy at Blue Cross Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) with a background in public health policy, advocacy, and health equity. She began her role at BCBSA in July 2022 and works on a variety of health equity issues such as social drivers of health, tribal health equity, and health equity accreditation.


Prior to joining BCBSA, Aishat worked at a boutique life sciences government relations consulting firm, assisting clients on a variety of policy issues. At the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine, she focused on government relations, regulatory affairs, and market access policy issues in the United States and Europe. She has also worked at the American Society of Clinical Oncology, where she collaborated with regional oncology societies to identify emerging policy issues affecting the practice of oncology and patient care, and the American Society for Microbiology where she managed federal grants on biosecurity, laboratory capacity, and antimicrobial resistance.


Aishat’s passion for public health and health equity began while she earned her undergraduate degree in Community Health from the University of Maryland.

Val LiHang Jacobo

Blue Shield of California

Principal Operations | Portfolio Manager | Health Equity

Blue Shield California

Val.Jacobo@blueshieldca.com

Val LiHang Jacobo is a health equity strategist and systems architect with over 30 years of experience designing performance and governance models across public programs and enterprise healthcare. She leads enterprise reporting and data governance at Blue Shield of California, embedding REaL and SOGI standards into systems that inform care delivery across Medicare, Medi-Cal, and Commercial populations.


Her work translates federal data standards, including OMB Directive 15 and SPD 15, into actionable frameworks that strengthen measurement, accountability, and equitable outcomes. Val brings a community-centered lens to data—advancing visibility and integrity for marginalized populations within health systems.

Gretchen Wartman

Vice President Director, Institute for Equity in Health Policy and Practice

gwartman@nmqf.org

Additional Webinar Information:

https://dataequitycoalition.com



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