Milbank Memorial Fund: March 2024
The Milbank Memorial Fund released The Health of US Primary Care: 2024 Scorecard Report — No One Can See You Now, which measures the health of primary care by accessibility, investments and financing, workforce, and research. The report includes state-by-state data and policy recommendations.
Bob Woodruff Foundation: March 2024
The Bob Woodruff Foundation released a new report, The Got Your 6 Network: Quantifying and Addressing Veterans’ Needs in 2023, with results from a survey of 130 veteran-serving organizations on the needs of service members, veterans, and their families and caregivers.
Philanthropy @ Work – Transitions – March 2024
The latest on transitions from the field.
Philanthropy @ Work – Grants and Programs – March 2024
The latest on grants and programs from the field.
Opportunities to Engage on the 2024 Reauthorization of the Older Americans Act
First signed into law in 1965, the Older Americans Act (OAA) provides critical services that address the social drivers of health for older adults such as nutrition, transportation, senior centers, elder rights protections, caregiver support, and health promotion. If the OAA is not reauthorized, it is set to expire on September 30, 2024. Grantmakers In…
Where We Go From Here: Health Misinformation on Social Media
The American Journal of Public Health’s article explains how health misinformation spreads on social media and how to combat the spread of misinformation.
Public Health and Online Misinformation: Challenges and Recommendations
The Annual Review of Public Health published a paper about the challenges of online misinformation and their public health recommendations for combatting online misinformation.
Equipping Health Professions Educators to Better Address Medical Misinformation
RTI worked with the CDC, the AAMC, and 5 medical schools to share their learnings about combatting medical misinformation and mistrust. This paper comprises insights from each of the teams and overarching observations regarding the challenges and opportunities involved with leveraging health professions education to address medical misinformation and improve patient health.
Evaluating Health Information
UCSF Health’s article about how to evaluate health information.
Health Misinformation Resources
The National Library of Medicine has online resources for health misinformation, including reading, videos, webinars, classes, events, and funding opportunities.