Consortium On Diversity & Equity (CODE)
The Consortium on Diversity & Equity’s (CODE) mission is to facilitate the global biopharmaceutical industry as an exemplar for diverse, equitable, and inclusive business best practices that address social determinants of health and improve healthcare outcomes.
The Consortium On Diversity & Equity (CODE) is an initiative by forward-thinking organizations to collaborate on practical and tangible DE&I projects within and across four key pillars in the life science industry: (i) workforce, (ii) workplace, (iii) clinical trial, and (iv) marketplace. CODE allows the Center for Healthcare Innovation to leverage its 11+ year brand for excellence and track-record for tangible accomplishments, including building relationships across the healthcare ecosystem. The CODE goal is to maximize practical positive impact on patients and their caregivers/family/friends.
CODE will be taking an innovative approach by integrating the four pillars and operating in a pre-competitive environment, allowing the Consortium to generate key insights and develop multiple best practices. CODE is built around doing tangible, limited duration experiments, learning from those endeavors, communicating results to the broader biopharmaceutical industry, and then interactively developing other projects. We are excited about our potential to share those learnings with the entire life science industry and essential stakeholders across the health ecosystem. This dissemination of information, knowledge, and even wisdom will ultimately benefit patients and providers.
If your organization is interested in learning more about CODE, please contact us, and a CHI Team Member will be in contact with more information..
Joseph Gaspero is the CEO and Co-Founder of CHI. He is a healthcare executive, strategist, and researcher. He co-founded CHI in 2009 to be an independent, objective, and interdisciplinary research and education institute for healthcare. Joseph leads CHI’s research and education initiatives focusing on including patient-driven healthcare, patient engagement, clinical trials, drug pricing, and other pressing healthcare issues. He sets and executes CHI’s strategy, devises marketing tactics, leads fundraising efforts, and manages CHI’s Management team. Joseph is passionate and committed to making healthcare and our world a better place. His leadership stems from a wide array of experiences, including founding and operating several non-profit and for-profit organizations, serving in the U.S. Air Force in support of 2 foreign wars, and deriving expertise from time spent in industries such as healthcare, financial services, and marketing. Joseph’s skills include strategy, management, entrepreneurship, healthcare, clinical trials, diversity & inclusion, life sciences, research, marketing, and finance. He has lived in six countries, traveled to over 30 more, and speaks 3 languages, all which help him view business strategy through the prism of a global, interconnected 21st century. Joseph has a B.S. in Finance from the University of Illinois at Chicago. When he’s not immersed in his work at CHI, he spends his time snowboarding backcountry, skydiving, mountain biking, volunteering, engaging in MMA, and rock climbing.