October 2-3, 2025

Call for Proposals is Now Open!

Early Bird Registration Now Available!

Healthier Texas (formerly It’s Time Texas) and The University of Texas System are now accepting proposals for the 2025 Healthier Texas Summit, taking place October 2-3 in Austin, Texas.

This is your opportunity to share your expertise, innovative strategies, and success stories with public health professionals, educators, advocates, and policymakers who are working to improve health outcomes across Texas.

Submission Deadline: 
April 27, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. CST

Session Formats: 
✔ Skill Building Workshops (60 min)
✔ Panel Discussions (60 min)
✔ Presentations (45 min)
✔ Poster Presentations (2 hours)

2025 Summit Theme:
Uniting to Transform Health in Texas
The Summit theme highlights the power of cross-sector collaboration and knowledge-sharing to develop solutions that address health challenges across the state.

Know someone who should apply? Help spread the word and encourage colleagues, partners, and thought leaders to submit proposals. Together, we can make a meaningful impact on public health in Texas.

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October 2-3, 2025

Save the Date


Join us for our 9th annual Healthier Texas Summit October 2-3, 2025, at the AT&T Hotel & Conference Center in Austin for another inspiring Summit, where you’ll gain new strategies, connect with leaders across sectors, and continue the momentum toward a healthier Texas.
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Sponsorship Opportunities


Sponsorship provides partners with unique opportunities to connect and engage with attendees while increasing their brand exposure, building their network of health champions, and joining like-minded community leaders to accelerate the health movement in Texas and beyond! At Healthier Texas, we prioritize developing mutually beneficial relationships with partners.

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To discuss the sponsorship opportunities and select the sponsorship level that best fits your company’s goals and needs, please contact Nathaniel Aranda, CFRE, Senior Vice President of Strategy.
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2023 Healthier Texas Summit

2024 Keynote Speakers

  • Day 2

    John Henderson

    John Henderson

    President/CEO of TORCH (Texas Organization of Rural and Community Hospitals)
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    Lisa Wright

    Lisa Wright

    President and Chief Executive Officer Community Health Choice, Inc.
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    Meredith Duncan

    Meredith Duncan

    President and CEO, Texicare
  • Content Tracks

    The effectiveness of health programs is greatly enhanced through its integration with data-driven approaches. Evidence-based interventions and successful collaborations hinge on robust data systems that enable informed decision-making and continuous quality improvement. Communicating on these programs requires a strong understanding of the population accessing these programs, multiple modes of communication, and tailored approaches. Proposals for sessions in this track will focus on approaches for using data to effectively inform, tailor, manage, and communicate on health programs. These approaches would include data collection, data sharing, program evaluation, quality improvement, communicating needs, and engaging program participants.

    We encourage session proposals that will highlight:

    • Use of storytelling and public narrative to catalyze action
    • Capturing community voices to inform care and health programs
    • Specific tools and evidence-based practices used to assess organizational capacity to implement effective health communication and measure impact
    • Promising practices, lessons learned, and indicators of progress for sharing data and information, particularly in multi-institutional and multi-sector partnerships
    • Effective, and efficient approaches to unlocking the power of data for decision-making, evaluation, and quality improvement
    • Innovative approaches to leverage technology and data to enhance advancements in healthcare
    • Use of disaggregated data and person-centered communication to address health disparities and inclusion

    Audience Types


    The Healthier Texas Summit brings together professionals from various sectors, including:

    • Public Health
    • Healthcare
    • NGOs (nonprofits, faith-based organizations, coalitions)
    • Government
    • Academic Research Institutes
    • Private Sector
    • Higher Education

    This conference fosters cross-sector collaboration and networking opportunities throughout the event.

    Summit Agenda
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    2023 Sponsors


    Sponsors play a critical role in making this event possible, as their support allows us to offer high-quality programming and engaging opportunities for attendees. If you haven't already done so, please take a few minutes to learn more about their great work.

    Empower Partners

    BlueCross and BlueShield of Texas
    Texas Mutual Workers' Compensation Insurance

    Equity Advocate

    Amerigroup Logo

    Wellness Warriors

    St. David's Foundation
    UTHealth Logo
    It's Time Texas Logo
    The University of Texas System
    SNAP Logo, Healthier Texas Sponsor
    BlueCross and BlueShield of Texas
    Texas Mutual Workers' Compensation Insurance
    Amerigroup Logo
    Genentech Logo
    St. David's Foundation
    Humana Healthy Horizons
    UTHealth Logo

    To discuss the sponsorship opportunities and select the sponsorship level that best fits your company’s goals and needs, please contact:

    Maggy Troup, Director of Development
    Nathaniel Aranda, CFRE, Vice President of Development and Marketing

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    Healthier Texas Summit

    2023 Sponsors


    Sponsors play a critical role in making this event possible, as their support allows us to offer high-quality programming and engaging opportunities for attendees. If you haven't already done so, please take a few minutes to learn more about their great work.

    Empower Partners

    BlueCross and BlueShield of Texas
    Texas Mutual Workers' Compensation Insurance

    Equity Advocate

    Amerigroup Logo

    Wellness Warriors

    St. David's Foundation
    UTHealth Logo
    It's Time Texas Logo
    The University of Texas System
    SNAP Logo, Healthier Texas Sponsor
    BlueCross and BlueShield of Texas
    Texas Mutual Workers' Compensation Insurance
    Amerigroup Logo
    Genentech Logo
    St. David's Foundation
    Humana Healthy Horizons
    UTHealth Logo

    To discuss the sponsorship opportunities and select the sponsorship level that best fits your company’s goals and needs, please contact:

    Maggy Troup, Director of Development
    Nathaniel Aranda, CFRE, Vice President of Development and Marketing

    Summit Icon
    Healthier Texas Summit

    2024 Sponsors


    Sponsors play a critical role in making this event possible, as their support allows us to offer high-quality programming and engaging opportunities for attendees. If you haven't already done so, please take a few minutes to learn more about their great work.

    Empower Partners

    BlueCross and BlueShield of Texas
    Texas Mutual Workers' Compensation Insurance

    Gold Sponsor

    Texas Mutual Workers' Compensation InsuranceSt. David's Foundation LogoImage

    Silver Sponsor

    St. David's Foundation Logo
    UTHealth Houston School of Public Health logo
    Change the Odds American Cancer Society and Pfizer logo
    Genentech Logo

    Bronse Sponsor

    St. David's Foundation Logo
    Wellpoint logo
    UTMB Health
    Genentech Logo

    Summit Ally

    United Healthcare
    BaylorScott&White Health Plan
    Genentech Logo

    To discuss the sponsorship opportunities and select the sponsorship level that best fits your company’s goals and needs, please contact:

    Nathaniel Aranda, CFRE, Senior Vice President of Strategy

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    About Healthier Texas

    Healthier Texas is a statewide nonprofit working to bring people, organizations and communities together to take action that supports health for all, now and for generations to come.

    We’re working to reduce the risk of preventable diseases while improving health outcomes for Texans. Together we will build healthier communities—Together we thrive!

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