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Video Forum: Health Equity Summit, Part 1

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Chain Drug Review and Kearney recently assembled a group of leading pharmacy operators and other retailers, physicians, payers, public officials, and policy experts for the second-annual Health Equity Summit in Chicago. This installment of Video Forum is the first in a series that will present highlights from the event. Here are excerpts from remarks by keynote speaker Kristin Williams, executive vice president and chief health strategy and policy officer at Hy-Vee, and Kearney partner Dominique Harris, who served as host for the event.

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