GIH Comments on the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan Framework for FY27–FY31

GIH submitted a comment in response to a Request for Information from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) about the NIH-Wide Strategic Plan Framework for FY27–FY31. The Strategic Plan outlines NIH’s vision for biomedical research direction, capacity, and stewardship, and lays out NIH’s proposed priorities over the next five years. 

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Taking the Risk to Shift Our Focus Upstream

For nearly three decades, we at the New Hampshire Children’s Health Foundation have operated with a clear and compassionate mission: to improve the health and well-being of vulnerable children from birth to five years old and their families throughout New Hampshire. Yet after 28 years, we have made a deliberate and strategic decision to evolve our approach—shifting our focus “upstream” to address poverty as a root cause of the challenges we have long sought to mitigate.

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Surplus-to-Care: A Systems Approach to Expanding Insulin and Diabetes Supplies Access

Grantmakers In Health’s Maya Schane spoke with Svetlana Hutfles of Insulin for Life USA (IFL USA) about the organization’s model to improve diabetes supplies access across the country, and how philanthropy can engage on this issue. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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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 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.

Elisabeth Arenales to Be Honored with Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy

Elisabeth Arenales, Director of the Colorado Center on Law and Policy’s Health Program, will receive Grantmakers In Health’s 2018 Andy Hyman Award for Advocacy.

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Michael Brown to Be Honored with Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy

Michael Brown, Vice President, Community Programs of the Seattle Foundation, will receive Grantmakers In Health’s (GIH) 2018 Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy.

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The Challenge of Community Leadership

As we prepare for the 2018 annual conference, Navigating Currents of Change, I have been thinking about foundations and community leadership.

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Immigration as a Social Determinant of Health

The bedrock of our immigration policy is exclusion. Anti-immigrant sentiment continues to run through our laws, from the rise of anti-immigrant policies of the 1990s to the overwhelmingly anti-immigrant rhetoric permeating our society today.

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Care Partners: How Philanthropy Can Kick-Start Programs to Engage Community and Family Members to Improve Depression Care for Older Adults

Late-life depression is a pressing public health concern among an aging population facing increasing chronic health concerns. As many as 5 to 10 percent of older adults seen in a primary care health setting suffer from depression, which can last for months or even years, and is associated with both decreased quality of life and higher health care costs.

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Philanthropy @ Work – Transitions – March 2018

The latest on transitions from the field.

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