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.
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.
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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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.
Making the Connection with HIT
Health information technology (HIT) is now widely regarded as a promising tool for improving the quality, safety, and efficiency of the health care delivery system – largely due to a major influx of federal funding and the Affordable Care Act. Despite its newfound prominence, the benefits of HIT were only championed by a small cadre of health care professionals a mere six year ago.
The One that Got Away: Emerging Leaders in Health Philanthropy on Moving up and Moving on
Does philanthropy in the 21st century offer a viable career path for rising leaders with fresh visions and several decades of potential contributions before them, or is it a significant, yet temporary stop on what is sure to be a varied career journey?
GIH President and CEO Lauren LeRoy to Step Down October 2012
Lauren LeRoy, who since 1998 has led Grantmakers In Health through a period of transformative growth and change, will step down as president and CEO in October 2012.