Grantmakers In Health Welcomes New Members to Board of Directors

Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is pleased to announce the elections of David Jordan, President and CEO, United Methodist Health Ministry Fund; and Regan Gruber Moffitt, Vice President of Community Investments, St. David’s Foundation; to its Board of Directors.

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Deadlines in Health-Related Executive Orders and Presidential Memoranda

This GIH policy resource details many of the health-related executive orders issued by the administration and includes a calendar of upcoming implementation deadlines.

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GIH President and CEO Cara V. James Joined The Rural Impact Podcast for a Conversation about the Intersections of Policy and Philanthropy

On December 4, 2025, Cara V. James, President and CEO of Grantmakers In Health (GIH), was featured in an episode of The Rural Impact podcast. She joined Michelle Rathman, host of The Rural Impact and strategic communications advisor in health care policy, for a conversation on the intersections of policy and philanthropy, challenges with rural health funding, and more. “Policies that are impacting rural communities are…

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GIH Health Policy Update Newsletter

An Exclusive Resource for Funding Partners

The Health Policy Update is a newsletter produced in collaboration with Leavitt Partnersi and Trust for America’s Health. Drawing on GIH’s policy priorities outlined in our policy agenda and our strategic objective of increasing our policy and advocacy presence, the Health Policy Update provides GIH Funding Partners with a range of federal health policy news.

Advancing Racial Equity in the Corporate Sector

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has launched Expanding Equity, a new program to transform corporate workplaces into more equitable places of opportunity.

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HHS and Surgeon General Announce New Initiatives to Improve Maternal Health

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released a new Action Plan to improve maternal health outcomes and reduce disparities that put Black, American Indian and Alaska Native women at increased risk of experiencing fatal complications in pregnancy, childbirth, and during the postpartum period.

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What Coloradans Experienced in 2020

A new Colorado Health Foundation poll reveals that the consequences of 2020 have not fallen on Coloradans equally. Read the foundation’s blog posts on the perspectives and experiences of Black Coloradans, Hispanic and Latino/x Coloradans, and Coloradans living on lower incomes, and use an interactive dashboard to dig deeper into the data.

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Race, Treatment Bias, and COVID-19

This new infographic from NIHCM Foundation explores the history of racial bias and discrimination in health care and during the pandemic, outlines short-term strategies to narrow disparities from COVID-19 and respond to vaccine hesitancy, and highlights long-term strategies to address systemic racism and improve health outcomes.

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Poll: A New National Conversation About Covid-19 is Urgently Needed

A new poll by pollster Frank Luntz and the de Beaumont Foundation examines attitudes regarding COVID-19 and explores preferred words, sentences, phrases, and attributes Americans need to hear to change their behavior and stop the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Moving Ahead Together: A Framework for Integrating HIV/AIDS and Aging Services

Moving Ahead Together: A Framework for Integrating HIV/AIDS and Aging Services

More than half of the 1.2 million people living with HIV in the U.S. are 50 or older. By 2030, that figure is estimated to rise to 70-percent. This new Grantmakers In Aging (GIA) report offers a detailed set of recommendations for bringing health care (HIV, geriatrics, primary, and specialty care), behavioral health care, psychosocial support, and social services into closer cooperation.

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