GIH Bulletin: July 2025
In the last few years, there has been an increased number of extreme weather events, including wildfires, tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, and heatwaves in the United States. In 2023, the United States experienced 28 disasters that cost at least $1 billion, the largest number of billion-dollar disasters in a single year on record (Smith 2024). While some areas of the country are more susceptible to these threats, there are no regions immune to disasters. According to a recent Gallup poll, 37 percent of adults in the United States report they have been personally impacted by at least one extreme weather event in the last two years, which is higher than the 2022/2023 survey result at 33 percent.
GIH Bulletin: April 2015
This year marks the 100th anniversary of National Negro Health Week and the 30th anniversary of the Heckler Report. Both were milestones in the quest for reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care.
GIH Bulletin: March 2015
This year’s annual conference in Austin, Texas, was a multidimensional exploration of the theme Pathways to Health. Dynamic plenary speakers set the tone, beginning with Patrick Kennedy (The Kennedy Forum)
GIH Bulletin: February 2015
This January, members of GIH’s board and senior staff visited Havana, Cuba, with MEDICC, an organization licensed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to conduct people-to-people trips to Cuba.
GIH Bulletin: January 2015
At a recent conference on the science of dissemination and implementation, sponsored by AcademyHealth and the National Institutes of Health, I participated in a panel on the contributions of research to achieving progress in health equity.
GIH Bulletin: December 2014
You may have noticed that next year’s gathering in Austin is called the GIH annual conference, not the annual meeting. The difference is more than semantic.
GIH Bulletin: November 2014
Over the past year, GIH board members have sponsored receptions in their home communities, a wonderful opportunity to meet grantmakers across the country.
GIH Bulletin: October 2014
Austin-Bailey Health and Wellness Foundation (Canton, OH) awarded grants totaling $179,952 to 16 nonprofit organizations located in the four-county area of Holmes, Stark, Tuscarawas, and Wayne in Ohio.
GIH Bulletin: September 2014
The recent shooting death of African-American teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, is a painful reminder of the deeply entrenched divisions and tensions that plague too many American communities fractured by decades of racial discrimination, poverty, and disinvestment.
GIH Bulletin: August 2014
Each fall, Grantmakers In Health (GIH) offers programming designed for funders with a strong interest in health policy.