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.
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.
The Importance of Ballot Measure Access and Race-Conscious Policymaking
In this interview, Grantmakers In Health’s Maya Schane spoke with Elizabeth DiLauro and Giridhar Mallya of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation about the importance of race-conscious policymaking and protecting access to ballot measures as key tools for advancing health and racial equity.
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.
Nonprofit Competition in the Health Insurance Exchange: Consumer Operated and Oriented Plans
When the Affordable Care Act was passed, Section 1332 established the Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) program, which offers a consumer-friendly, high-quality nonprofit competitor to provide affordable insurance products to the small employers and individuals that will be served by the health insurance exchanges.
Osula Rushing Named GIH Vice President for Program and Strategy
Osula Evadne Rushing has been named Grantmakers In Health’s (GIH) vice president for program and strategy. In her new role, she will support program development and strategic positioning of the organization, as well as oversee and supervise program staff, and cultivate external relations and new ventures.
Seismic Shifts Beyond Foundation Walls Compel Changes Within
What is a foundation to do when its mission to improve and transform health and well-being is threatened by persistent economic challenges and growing community needs? For Saint Luke’s Foundation of Cleveland, the answer lay in three words: rethink, redesign, and reinvent.
James Kimmey Selected 2013 Terrance Keenan Award Recipient
James R. Kimmey, MD, MPH, former founding president and CEO of the Missouri Foundation for Health, has been selected the 2013 recipient of GIH’s Terrance Keenan Leadership Award in Health Philanthropy.