Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy Report

This resource provides an overview of the Department of Health and Human Services report on children’s health released on September 9, 2025.

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Department of Health and Human Services Reorganization and Reductions: Explaining the State of Play

This issue brief provides an overview of the current status of the reorganization and Reductions in Force (RIF) at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to help funders understand the impact on their work and engage in the current policy landscape.

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Going Beyond Grants to End Health Disparities

Several years ago, Hallmark Health System, which includes Lawrence Memorial Hospital of Medford and Melrose-Wakefield Hospital and is located north of Boston, realized it had a substantial challenge: while its patient population had changed dramatically in terms of language and culture, its staff and management had not.

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Creating Healthier Communities to Reverse Childhood Obesity

Learn how the YMCA’s Healthier Communities Initiatives, which include Pioneering Healthier Communities, Action Communities for Health, Innovation, & Environmental Change, and Statewide Pioneering Healthier Communities, are helping to address the obesity epidemic.

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GIH State Grant Writing Assistance Fund, Phase II

Grantmakers In Health (GIH), with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is making available grant writing support to help states implement the Affordable Care Act.

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Better Health Through Better Philanthropy - Grantmakers in Health

Integrative Medicine: Rethinking Health Care Delivery

Fifteen years ago I was a consulting psychologist with a newly minted doctorate, happy, and engaged in checkbook philanthropy on the side. But in the deep of winter, a diagnosis of breast cancer upended my world.

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Margaret O’Bryon Selected 2012 Terrance Keenan Award Winner

Margaret O’Bryon, president and CEO of the Consumer Health Foundation, has been named the 2012 recipient of Grantmakers In Health’s Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy.

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Jandel Allen-Davis and Anthony Iton Named to GIH Board

Grantmakers In Health is pleased to announce the addition of Jandel Allen-Davis and Anthony Iton to its board of directors. Their board terms begin after the 2012 GIH Annual Meeting on Health Philanthropy.

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