Webinars
Critical Conversations: A Discussion with Don Berwick and Ellen Goodman About End-of-Life Planning
In this call former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Don Berwick and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman discussed The Conversation Project, a new campaign designed to help ensure that end-of-life wishes are expressed and respected.
Engaging Voters to Promote Health
This webinar considered the non-partisan activities that grassroots organizations conduct to increase voter registration and mobilization in traditionally under-represented groups and explored legitimate ways health funders can help support these efforts within existing legal boundaries.
Building the Infant Mental Health Workforce
GIH Behavioral Health Funders Network When: Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern / 12:00 p.m. Central / 11:00 a.m. Mountain / 10:00 a.m. Pacific Who: Judith Meyers, Children’s Fund of Connecticut Deb Weatherston, Michigan Association for Infant Mental Health What: An incredible amount of development occurs during infancy, and what happens during this…
Investing in Interprofessional Team-Based Education for Health Care Providers
In this webinar, participants discussed the importance of interprofessional team-based education in transforming the health care delivery system and learned more about funders already supporting this work.
Visualizing The Farm Bill
On this webinar, we explored critical public health connections in the Farm Bill with the help of the Visualizer tool and discussed the growing role of food and tech efforts to communicate information and effect change.
Addressing Obesity: Foundation Opportunities to Leverage The Weight of the Nation
This webinar discussed the Weight of the Nation project, which is designed to accelerate efforts to prevent and eliminate obesity across the United States.
On the Road to Better Health: County Health Rankings and Roadmaps: Part Two
This webinar provided grantmakers with a deep dive into the 2012 County Health Rankings, which were released April 3, 2012.
Inside National Health Reform: The Second Anniversary of the ACA
This webinar engaged John McDonough, a professor of practice at the Harvard School of Public Health and the author of Inside Health Reform, who between 2008 and 2010 served as senior advisor on national health reform to the U.S. Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions where he worked on passage of the Affordable Care Act.
Making Space for Healthy Communities
This webinar discussed different models for using foundation facilities to support healthy communities, best practices (and mistakes to avoid) in creating mission-enhancing shared spaces, and tools for successfully developing buildings that meet the specific health needs of particular communities.
On the Road to Better Health: County Health Rankings and Roadmaps
This two-part webinar series examined the County Health Rankings and strategies for translating the rankings model and data into action that improves the health of communities.