Huddles

The 2027 sessions

Each month takes one stage of the question, so the year moves through Detect, Decide, Deliver, and Govern twice, with the Summit in between.

1. January Detect

   Signals outside the clinic

   Host Dr. Mehjabin Haque Associate Director of Community Health Data

   Early-warning uses of artificial intelligence for housing, work, food, and neighborhood conditions, and which of those signals a community may keep out of a model.

2. February Decide

   Decision support under scarcity

   Host Janel Paulk, DBA Chief Health Informatics Officer

   Decision support for triage, workforce, and allocation when resources are limited, and where responsibility for the decision remains.

3. March Deliver

   Care where people live

   Host Katrina Polk, PhD Vice President of Community Health

   Care delivery, operations, access, and cost outside the hospital, and what interoperability requires in those settings.

4. April Govern

   Data sovereignty and community ownership

   Host Jonathan Moore Senior Director of Community Health Networks

   Data sovereignty, trust, community ownership, and security in health applications of artificial intelligence.

5. May Summit

   Nexus Harbor Summit

   No Huddle this month. The annual Summit is May 6–7, 2027, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, DC.

6. June All stages

   After the Summit

   Host Shawn Swanson, PhD Vice President of Health Innovation

   Review of decisions from the May Summit, and which of them will be taken up as laboratory projects.

7. July Detect

   Housing, food, and income as health data

   Host Amber Avery, PhD Senior Director of Data and Analytics

   Housing, food, and income as health data: what a model may use, and what it should not.

8. August Decide

   Authority and allocation

   Host Pryscila Gabrig, MBA Special Advisor for Health Policy

   Accountability when algorithmic tools set priorities among communities.

9. September Deliver

   From pilot to owned asset

   Host Brandy Hampton, MBA Vice President of Civic Innovation

   Conditions under which a pilot becomes a program a community can operate after the grant ends.

10. October Govern

    Superintelligence and public health

    Public-health governance when analytic systems may exceed the expertise of the people responsible for them.

11. November Detect and decide

    Military and civilian readiness

    Host Samuel Washington, MS President and Chief Operating Officer

    Methods of readiness from military and civilian systems, considered for community health: early detection, decisions under constraint, and delivery.

12. December All stages

    Year in review and the 2028 agenda

    Review of the 2027 cycle and the questions proposed for the 2028 Huddles, Salons, and Summit.