Racial Inequities in Medical Debt: Causes and Potential Solutions
This discussion covered viewpoints on the problem of medical debt, the people most at risk, and potential points of engagement for philanthropy.
Health Equity Starts with the Data
This webinar featured a dive into the findings and a discussion on the reports’ recommendations for improving health equity data and to discuss how philanthropy can help ensure that we can effectively monitor progress towards achieving health equity.
Centering Health and Racial Equity: It’s an Inside Job
This webinar explored long-term plans, promising processes, and lessons learned in centering equity and racial justice at their foundations.
Affordable Housing and Health: Long-Term Solutions
This webinar explored innovative measures to address how The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated housing insecurity for millions of Americans who have faced the risk of eviction, foreclosure, and homelessness due to job loss, medical debt, and illness over the past year and a half.
Health Equity Networking Call
Grantmakers In Health is pleased to convene the Health Equity Network to strategize about day-to-day challenges and opportunities inherent in advancing equity and justice through health philanthropy.
Equitable and Sustainable Children’s Oral Health Services in the Carolinas
A robust conversation was held about an exciting effort to expand oral health services to rural and underserved communities in North and South Carolina, through a school-based model supported by three foundations and their state partners.
Federal Action Is Needed to Improve Race and Ethnicity Data in Health Programs
Grantmakers In Health, in collaboration with the National Committee for Quality Assurance, interviewed a variety of stakeholders across the country, representing all levels of the health system. Federal Action Is Needed to Improve Race and Ethnicity Data in Health Programs, identifies tangible actions to help improve the completeness, accuracy, and usability of race and ethnicity data.
Supporting Black Maternal Health and Advancing Birth Equity
This webinar explored how latest policy updates, successful strategies to advance birth equity, and how health philanthropy can make an impact in reducing black maternal mortality.
Advancing Social Connections for All
This discussion covered how philanthropic leaders can support the redesign of community-level systems to advance meaningful social connections.
Engaging Faith Communities to Improve the Health and Well-being of Communities of Color
This webinar discussed how the Coalition to Transform Advanced Care (C-TAC), by partnering with AARP and others, has worked with faith leaders and community-based organizations in Louisville, Kentucky to build trust in the health care system and improve health outcomes.
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