Race shouldn’t determine your health. Zip code shouldn’t change your life expectancy. Dr. Nwando Olayiwola explains how the medical profession does harm to patients by perpetuating racism & committing placeism, ignoring place & health connections. She offers solutions for how technology & educational reform can help. Dr. Olayiwola is Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, where she is also the founder of the Center for Primary Care Innovation and Transformation. Dr. Olayiwola has devoted her clinical practice, research and programmatic leadership to harnessing technology to increase access to care for underserved and disenfranchised populations, improving health equity, addressing social determinants of health and racism, health care redesign, antiracism and antioppression, empowerment of women and girls, and community health. She is the founder of the Minority Women Professionals are MVPs national professional development program. She was a Commonwealth Fund/Harvard University Fellow in Minority Health Policy and received her master’s degree in public health from the Harvard School of Public Health. She obtained her undergraduate and medical degrees from The Ohio State University and completed her residency at Columbia University/New York Presbyterian Hospital. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx