Grantmakers In Health Joins Amicus Brief Challenging Medicaid Work Requirement Rule
Grantmakers In Health (GIH) has joined an amicus curiae brief filed September 10 in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Oz, supporting a challenge to a federal rule that the brief argues would strip Medicaid coverage from millions of people with serious health conditions. GIH joined the American Public Health Association, the Jacobs Institute of Women’s Health…
Health-Related Executive Orders and Presidential Memoranda
This Grantmakers In Health policy resource summarizes health-related executive orders and presidential memoranda issued since 2015, highlighting implications for health funders. It tracks directives on behavioral health, Medicaid, prescription drugs, federal grantmaking, DEI, gender-affirming care, child welfare, vaccines, and related litigation affecting implementation.
August 2026 Executive Order on Childhood Vaccines: Overview, Implications, and Stakeholder Reactions
This Grantmakers In Health policy resource provides an overview of the August 2026 executive order on childhood vaccines, including the restructuring of the federal immunization schedule, the directive to split the MMR vaccine, implications for insurance coverage, family costs, and state exemption laws, and reactions from stakeholders.
Beyond the Rankings: What Four Decades of KIDS COUNT Have Taught Me About Why Data Matter
For more than three decades, through the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT® project, decisionmakers and communities have had access to reliable national, state, and local data to improve outcomes for all children, young people, and families in this country. KIDS COUNT comprises the foundation’s national KIDS COUNT publications—the annual KIDS COUNT Data Book and periodic reports such as Race for Results; the KIDS COUNT Data Center, a resource for year-round national, state, and local data; and the KIDS COUNT Network of state-based partner organizations that help policymakers, advocates, journalists, and community leaders understand and use data to make informed decisions.
GIH Health Policy Update Newsletter
An Exclusive Resource for Funding Partners
The Health Policy Update is a newsletter produced in collaboration with Leavitt Partners 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.
RRF Foundation for Aging: March 2021
RRF Foundation for Aging is accepting proposal applications for its next grant cycle. The deadline is May 1, 2021.
The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation: March 2021
The Rita and Alex Hillman Foundation’s 2021 Hillman Innovations in Care (HIC) program will issue a special call for proposals that focus on racism and its impact on health.
Well Being Trust: March 2021
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) released “A Guide for Health Systems to Save Lives from ‘Deaths of Despair’ and Improve Community Well-Being.” IHI partnered with Well Being Trust to evolve a set of recommendations and guidance for health care systems to improve mental health and well-being in the communities they serve, focusing specifically on saving lives from deaths of despair.
New York State Health Foundation: March 2021
Using survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau, a new New York State Health Foundation (NYSHealth) report analyzes mental health in New York State during the pandemic.
Montana Healthcare Foundation: March 2021
Montana Healthcare Foundation created two new reports that look at Medicaid’s impact on the health and economy.
Episcopal Health Foundation: March 2021
According to a new report sponsored by the Episcopal Health Foundation, significant pre-existing health differences for Black and Hispanic residents in Texas are leading to higher COVID-19 death rates, plus billions of dollars of increased health care spending and lost work productivity.