Advancing innovation in prevention and public health to keep people healthy before they enter the healthcare system

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Inaugural Event

Civic Health Forum

A Health Moonshot Forum for the 99%

Tuesday, June 16, 2026 | 1-7 p.m. ET

In Partnership with

The inaugural Civic Health Forum brings together investors, AI leaders, healthcare providers, payors, policymakers, and founders for a half-day convening at Civic Hall in New York City, organized around one question:

How do we keep people healthy before they enter the healthcare system?

The program combines strategic conversations with curated innovation spotlights and structured networking designed to move beyond dialogue toward partnerships, investment, and real-world deployment. Co-hosted by Fedcap, Digital Health Hub Foundation, and StartUp Health.

Speakers

Kevin Chen

MD, MHS

AVP, Design & Evaluation, NYC Health + Hospitals

Daniel Kraft

MD

Founder, NextMed Health, Digital.Health & Continuum Health Ventures

Susan Monarez

PhD

Former Director, CDC; Founding Deputy Director, ARPA-H

Girish Nadkarni

MD, MPH

Chief AI Officer, Mt. Sinai Health System

Sara Holoubek

Founding Partner and Executive Advisory, Luminary Labs

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

MD, PhD

Editor in Chief, JAMA & the JAMA Network; Professor, University of California, San Francisco

Anaïs Rameau

MD

Chief of Dysphasia, Associate Professor & Director of New Technologies, Department of Otolaryngology, Weill Cornell Medicine

Nirav Shah

MD

Senior Scholar, Stanford University; Founder, Civic Stratum

Rafael López

CEO & Co-founder, Diagnostikare

Elina Onitskansky

CEO & Founder, Ilant Health

Unity Stoakes

Co-founder, StartUp Health

Jay Varma

MD

SVP & Chief Medical Officer, The Fedcap Group

Mark Goldstein

Founder & Chairman, Digital Health Hub Foundation

Kevin Chen

MD, MHS

AVP, Design & Evaluation, NYC Health + Hospitals

Daniel Kraft

MD

Founder, NextMed Health, Digital.Health & Continuum Health Ventures

Susan Monarez

PhD

Former Director, CDC; Founding Deputy Director, ARPA-H

Girish Nadkarni

MD, MPH

Chief AI Officer, Mt. Sinai Health System

Sara Holoubek

Founding Partner and Executive Advisory, Luminary Labs

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

MD, PhD

Editor in Chief, JAMA & the JAMA Network; Professor, University of California, San Francisco

Anaïs Rameau

MD

Chief of Dysphasia, Associate Professor & Director of New Technologies, Department of Otolaryngology, Weill Cornell Medicine

Nirav Shah

MD

Senior Scholar, Stanford University; Founder, Civic Stratum

Rafael López

CEO & Co-founder, Diagnostikare

Elina Onitskansky

CEO & Founder, Ilant Health

Unity Stoakes

Co-founder, StartUp Health

Jay Varma

MD

SVP & Chief Medical Officer, The Fedcap Group

Mark Goldstein

Founder & Chairman, Digital Health Hub Foundation

Built for the

99%

The Problem

A healthy society strives to deliver less healthcare, not more. In the U.S. and other advanced economies, we invest billions of dollars each year to optimize care for people who are already sick, when the harder and more important work is preventing illness in the first place. The capital, technology, and talent that could transform prevention are arriving at a moment when they have never been more needed, and yet they are flowing disproportionately into the parts of the health system that serve people once they have already become patients. The upstream work of keeping people healthy in the first place is chronically underinvested and underbuilt.

Our Solution

Headquartered at Civic Hall in New York City, Civic Health is an international platform that brings together AI, technology, capital, and health leaders to advance the prevention of illness and the promotion of health at scale. Our focus is on the largest undercapitalized markets in health: the conditions, communities, and populations that current investment systematically overlooks, what we sometimes call “the other 99 percent.” We convene mission-aligned people and organizations, develop the strategies and plans that make new prevention ventures fundable, and help build the operational infrastructure for promising ideas to become operating organizations.

Get Involved

Civic Health works with funders, founders, operators, and institutional partners across the prevention and public health innovation ecosystem.

To learn more about attendance, sponsorship, or partnership, contact Dr. Jay K. Varma, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of The Fedcap Group, at jvarma@fedcap.org.

Easily Accessible Location

Located at Union Square -  a dynamic crossroads of culture and opportunity.

Accessible from all five boroughs by subway, bus and train:

Conveniently located near major employers, shops, and restaurants for student convenience

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Agenda

Doors open

1:00pm

Welcome & Opening Remarks

1:15pm

AI, Capital, and the Future of Prevention

1:30pm

Conversations and innovation spotlights

Networking Break

2:30pm

Deploying Innovation: From Pilot to Population Scale

3:00pm

Conversations and innovation spotlights

Networking Break

4:00pm

The Business of Keeping People Healthy

4:30pm

Conversations and innovation spotlights

Closing Remarks

5:30pm

Reception & Networking (until 7:00 PM)

5:45pm