Advancing State Data Collection on Opioid Treatment
This webinar learned about a national initiative launched by the Pew Charitable Trusts that offers states a core set of metrics to track opioid treatment access and use. Presenters described how better data collection can target critically needed progress and discuss the role philanthropy can play in these efforts.
Caring for Our Health Care Workforce: Challenges and Opportunities for Philanthropy
This webinar helped participants to better understand the landscape of health care workforce needs, discuss the strategies that attendees are currently engaged in, and highlight the ways philanthropy can build on existing state and federal efforts to ensure a comprehensive response.
Trends in Routine Vaccination and Preventive Services for Children
A robust conversation was held on evidence to date about missed immunizations and well-child visits, gaps in data, and implications for children’s health and public health.
Building an Integrated Behavioral Health Workforce for Children and Families
Participants explored multi-year initiatives that build the capacity of community health centers to deliver high-quality, evidence-informed, trauma-responsive, integrated behavioral health care to children and adolescents.
Reinforcing the Safety Net: Ensuring the Future of 340B
This webinar focused on the critical role the 340B Drug Pricing Program plays in financing health services in the United States.
CEO Working Group on Access and Coverage Call
Leaders in the field discussed the challenges this presents to states, and explore the strategies state officials and consumer advocates are designing to promote coverage retention.
Legislative Opportunities to Increase Health Care Access and Coverage
This webinar discussed the key features of the American Rescue Plan Act and the Build Back Better framework—which include extending marketplace subsidies, addressing the Medicaid coverage gap, providing funding for clinics and health centers, supporting consumer assistance and enforcement, funding reinsurance and affordability programs—and discussed philanthropy’s opportunity to engage in the resulting work in communities across the country.
Standing Together: Philanthropy’s COVID-19 Relief Funds and Immigrant Communities
This webinar featured a dive into the findings and a discussion on how foundations can prepare for future relief efforts.
Rural Health Leadership Group
During this fourth conversation in the GIH leadership series on rural health, we learned about key resources available for rural communities through the American Rescue Plan. Including large federal funding programs that are seeking applications, or will be rolled out in coming months.
Elevating Equity in Children and Families Grantmaking
In this on-demand webinar, participants will hear about one funder’s efforts to ensure that all families have access to the resources they need to raise thriving children, with a health equity lens at the center of their internal and external work.
CEO Working Group on Access and Coverage Quarterly Call
Grantmakers In Health convened the CEO Working Group on Access and Coverage to strategize about philanthropy’s role in addressing challenging topics.
Preparing for the End of the Public Health Emergency: State Strategies for Coverage Retention
This webinar explored the key issues that states will face at the end of the PHE and strategies that are being designed to ensure families no longer eligible for Medicaid will not go uninsured.
Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health
Grantmakers In Health, the National Rural Health Association, the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were pleased to convene the Public-Private Collaborations in Rural Health meeting on June 2 and 3, 2022.
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 Annual Conference Plenary Remarks: Embedding Rural Issues in Equity Conversations
Tim Putnam, Chief Executive Officer of Margaret Mary Health, and Justin Maxson, Deputy Under Secretary for Rural Development at the U.S. Department of Agriculture discuss embedding rural issues into equity conversations, in a conversation moderated by Nashville Health Founder and Chairman, Senator Bill Frist.
Upcoming Events on Access and Quality
NCOA Age + Action 2024
Hosted by the National Council on Aging. Grantmakers In Health (GIH) and our partners at Grantmakers In Aging (GIA) encourage funders to join us at the 2024 Age + Action conference taking place in Arlington, VA, on May 6 – 8, 2024.
2024 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy
We are excited to announce that the 2024 GIH annual conference, Bold Results Through Courageous Action, will be held on June 4 – 6 in Portland, Oregon at Hyatt Regency Portland at the Oregon Convention Center. Every year, GIH brings together the bright minds, seasoned experts, and innovative practitioners working in health philanthropy today.
Birth Equity Funders Summit: Aligning Strategies to Advance Equitable Birth Outcomes
This summit, designed exclusively for funders, aims to provide comprehensive strategies, tools, playbooks, and deep learning opportunities, fostering immediate implementation and collaboration. Acknowledging the underrepresentation of professionals from ethnically marginalized backgrounds, including BIPOC grantmakers, we commit to supporting, empowering, and creating a safe space for these voices. Our goal is to ensure that all participants leave with tangible insights and clear expectations for advancing equitable birth outcomes.