2021 Annual Conference Plenary Remarks: Reprioritizing Public Health
Mona Hanna-Attisha, Founder and Director of Michigan State University and Hurley Children’s Hospital Pediatric Public Health Initiative, and Tony Iton, Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities of The California Endowment discuss reprioritizing public health in a conversation moderated by Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust President Laura Gerald.
2021 Annual Conference Plenary Remarks: Centering Equity in Pandemic Response and Recovery
Marcella Nunez-Smith, Chair of the White House COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force, discusses how to center equity in pandemic response and recovery at the GIH annual conference, Building a Just and Equitable Future.
2021 Annual Conference Plenary Remarks: Federal Opportunities to Improve Health and Health Care
David Blumenthal, President of Commonwealth Fund, and J. Nadine Gracia, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Trust for America’s Health discuss federal opportunities to improve health and health care, in a conversation moderated by Grantmakers In Health President and CEO Cara James.
2021 Annual Conference Quick Take: Vot-ER: Vote like Your Health Depends On It!
Join this Quick Take to learn more about how Vot-ER can assist health care providers to strengthen the civic infrastructure in the communities you serve.
2021 Annual Conference Quick Take: Measuring What Matters to Older Adults
This Quick Take will share and highlight key pillars for successful food system transformation using values-based procurement; stories of leadership, innovation, and perseverance; recommended actions and investments needed to accelerate change at the scale and pace we need; and a vision for movement building, policy, and action to transform our food system over the next ten years.
2021 Annual Conference Quick Take: Virtual Crisis Care: Rural Innovation to Mental Health Crisis Response
This Quick Take will provide the nuts and bolts of how one state is piloting a statewide program to give rural law enforcement officers immediate access to mental health professionals using technology.
2021 Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health Virtual 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.
Supporting Seriously Ill Elders in the COVID Era
This webinar discussed the lessons learned from the pandemic, examples of best and promising practices and the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead, and what funders of all levels of experience serving these populations can do to make a difference.
Upcoming Events on Health Equity and Social Justice
2026 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy
Every year, GIH brings together the bright minds, seasoned experts, and innovative practitioners working in health philanthropy to discuss the important issues facing the field.
Roundtable Discussion: Health Funders Communication and Policy Staff
Grantmakers in Health is pleased to host a second joint call for the GIH Policy Staff Learning Community and the GIH Communications Staff Learning Community. We will discuss the importance of communicating about policy changes in meaningful ways that engage communities and partners. In this informal conversation, we will swap strategies, illuminate solutions, and make connections. We will also use the time to dig in on a topic that was raised during the January 27 call: supporting policy, messaging, or other work related to the upcoming elections (such as governors’ races, mid-terms, ballot initiatives, etc.).
Roundtable Discussion for Health Funders’ Policy Staff
A growing number of health funders employ staff whose responsibilities focus exclusively or predominantly on public policy engagement. Do you lead your organization’s policy or government affairs work? During our roundtable discussion we connected with peers, explored pressing issues, and shared experiences to engage communities in setting funders’ policy priorities. Between calls, members interact with one another in GIH’s online learning community for policy staff.