Virtual Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health Meeting
Grantmakers In Health, the National Rural Health Association, the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held the 2021 Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health virtual meeting on June 3 and 4, 2021.

2021 Annual Conference Quick Take: Advancing Health and Equity with Ballot Measures: Oregon’s Drug Decriminalization and Addiction Treatment Initiative
Listen to this Quick Take to hear more about decriminalization as an essential component to treating drug use as a health issue, the historic campaign that brought this policy to life, and the vision for what comes next.

2021 Annual Conference Quick Take: Advancing Health Equity for the Homebound
Older adults who are homebound are often socially isolated, have unmet care needs, and suffer high mortality—and being homebound is not uncommon. In 2011, data showed that more older adults were homebound than living in nursing homes. This Quick Take will highlight the epidemiology and characteristics of homebound older adults, a population often invisible to society, and discuss why funders should include the homebound in their efforts to advance health care equity.

2021 Annual Conference Quick Take: Closing the Gap: Evaluating Rural Communities with a Health Equity Lens
Using Healthcare Georgia Foundation’s The Two Georgias Initiative as a guiding framework, this Quick Take will explore the role of philanthropy and intermediaries, innovative evaluation tools and resources, and lessons learned about what it takes to build rural community capacity to measure health equity impacts.

2021 Annual Conference Quick Take: Debt as a Social Determinant of Health
In this Quick Take, the Asset Funders Network will explore the burden of unmanageable debt arising from longstanding systemic inequities that degrades health and wealth for people of color.
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