Upcoming Events

Philanthropy’s Role in Protecting Public Health

In recent months, negative sentiment and rhetoric against our country’s public health system has led to a variety of policy decisions, ranging from defunding local public health departments to undercutting and dismantling key systems and infrastructure. These actions will have profound and far-reaching consequences for our nation’s health. Join this call to discuss the impact of recent state and federal actions on local health departments, how health funders are investing in their communities’ public health, and what grantmakers can do to protect public health. Speakers include Lori Freeman of National Association of County & City Health Officials, Avital Havusha of New York Health Foundation, and Brian Williams of Missouri Foundation for Health.

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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? Join this informal roundtable discussion to connect with your peers, explore pressing issues, and share your experiences to engage communities in setting funders’ policy priorities.

On this webinar, we will hear from Sean McCluskie, Former Chief of Staff at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), regarding his reflections on the current health policy environment, as well as his advice for funders engaging in policy.

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CEO Working Group Webinar

Grantmakers In Health is pleased to convene the CEO Working Group to discuss challenges in our work and opportunities for collaboration as we move forward to achieve our health missions under the new administration.

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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? Participants joined this informal roundtable discussion to connect with your peers, explore pressing issues, and share your experiences to engage communities in setting funders’ policy priorities. Agenda forthcoming.

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Why A Strong Public Sector is Important to Philanthropy

This webinar offered an in-depth examination of current public opinion on the role of government, specific examples of effective messaging, and a set of recommendations for how grantmakers can get involved.

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Integrated Care at AHRQ: Current Efforts and Opportunities for Foundations

The webinar built upon the March 2012 GIH meeting, Promoting Integrated Behavioral Health and Primary Care: A Meeting of Public and Private Funders.

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The Bravewell Report: How Integrative Medicine Is Being Practiced in Clinical Centers Across the US

This webinar discussed The Bravewell Collaborative, the report, and how philanthropy is investing in this emerging field.

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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.

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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…

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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