Upcoming Webinars

Meeting the Moment to Prevent Violence: How Cross-Sector Collaborators Are Leading the Way

What happens when hospitals start treating violence as preventable? Across the country, health systems are pioneering models that connect clinical care to community violence intervention (CVI), and the early evidence is compelling.

This panel brings together three institutions at the forefront of this shift. Massachusetts General Hospital’s Gun Violence Prevention Center is training the next generation of clinicians to identify risk and navigate difficult conversations through case-based simulations. New research from Boston University offers findings from the first large-scale study of Boston Medical Center’s Violence Intervention Advocacy Program (VIAP), showing how in-depth interventions for young adult survivors of violence can reduce their risk of future involvement. And the Milken Institute’s survey findings discuss the funding landscape and strategies that sustain these approaches as federal support fluctuates.

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CEO Working Group Webinar: New CEOs

Grantmakers In Health is pleased to convene the CEO Working Group in March for foundation leaders who have been in their position for less than five years. This will be an opportunity to discuss the challenges faced as new CEOs, with one another and sometimes with seasoned leaders in the field. These calls are open to GIH Funding Partner CEOs, Presidents, Executive Directors, or the highest-ranking health staff at multi-issue foundations. During these candid, confidential conversations, philanthropic leaders share information, swap strategies, raise concerns, and ask for one another’s advice. Reach out to Ann Rodgers to learn more.

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SNAP Funder Working Group: Food Security Data Collection

Our upcoming Working Group Call will focus on data collection opportunities following USDA’s decision to terminate the Economic Research Service’s (ERS) Household Food Security Survey. For more than 30 years, this survey provided the nation’s most consistent measure of food security, shaping our collective understanding of the drivers of food insecurity and informing key food and nutrition policy decisions. No existing data source offers the same level of insight, and its loss will make it harder to assess the impacts of H.R. 1’s SNAP cuts. Experts from the Capital Area Food Bank, Healthy Eating Research, and the Urban Institute will discuss why continued data collection—using consistent methods and metrics—matters and how funders can support this work. 

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Mental Health Meets Firearm Safety: Innovative Strategies to Reduce Firearm Suicide

Firearms are involved in 55 percent of suicides in the United States, accounting for more than 27,000 deaths every year as documented by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control.  Yet this crisis remains largely invisible in public discourse. This webinar makes the case that the tools to act are already within reach.

This webinar brings together practitioners, funders, and public health leaders working at the intersection of mental health and firearm safety. Hear how mental health systems can integrate firearm access screening across the continuum of care, and why culturally responsive assessments are essential to making these approaches effective and equitable. Learn from Stanislaus County’s firsthand experience adopting this model and join a candid conversation about the funding strategies, system changes, and community partnerships that make this work possible. 

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Climate, Health, and Food: Empowering Communities to Work at the Intersections

Join us for a conversation with Environmental Health Watch and Sprout, two communities that are successfully putting this mode of action into practice. They will share strategies on how they are responding to climate change, health, and food security at the same time, showing what is possible when philanthropy stops treating these issues as separate and allows communities to truly work at the intersections.

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How the Care Movement is Organizing Against Devastating Federal Tax and Budget Cuts

This important webinar examined the potentially devastating impact of possible federal budget and tax cuts on women, children, older adults, and people with disabilities and the care movement’s planned response. These budget cuts could shift costs onto states, undermining family health and income security. The effects could reverberate across generations, reverse gains for women, children, older adults, people with disabilities, and workers, and hinder future federal public investments in equitable childcare, paid leave, aging, and disability care. Watch the recording to learn how a cross-issue, cross-generational state and federal movement is raising the voices of the families most impacted, and how philanthropy can engage at this pivotal moment.

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Roundtable Discussion for Health Funders’ Policy Staff

Join this informal roundtable discussion to connect with your peers, explore pressing issues, and share your experiences supporting legal advocacy to advance policy change.

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GIA & GIH Funder Briefing on the Older Americans Act Reauthorization

Despite bipartisan attempts until the 11th hour, the Older Americans Act (OAA) Reauthorization Act of 2024 was not passed. With a new Congress and Administration, there is a new landscape for what may come next for the OAA and other important health and aging policies. Join us for an update on OAA reauthorization, a discussion of national aging policy and funding, and GIH and GIA’s plans for supporting OAA reauthorization and other important aging policies in 2025. Speakers include Amy Gotwals of USAging and Marci Phillips of National Council on Aging.

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Health Care Policy in 2025: What to Expect from Congress and the Trump Administration

 In this timely webinar, experts from Leavitt Partners provided an overview of what to expect from Congress and the Administration, focusing on key legislative priorities and executive actions, and shared their predictions for what to watch over the first 100 days. Speakers addressed the role that budget reconciliation could play in shaping the nation’s policy landscape, the implications for funders, and the challenges and opportunities presented while navigating this expedited process.

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SCOTUS: Expanding Philanthropy’s Equity Lens

Several recent Supreme Court decisions, including Dobbs, Loper Bright, and Students for Fair Admissions, have significant implications for philanthropy’s health improvement and health equity goals. Reprising a popular panel discussion held during GIH’s 2024 Health Policy Exchange, this session explored the many ways SCOTUS rulings have shifted the health policy landscape and how health funders can become more engaged in supporting legal advocacy to influence judicial decision making. Speakers included Michele Bratcher Goodwin of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law Georgetown University Law Center, Giridhar Mallya of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and Skye L. Perryman of the Democracy Forward Foundation.

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CEO Working Group Webinar

Grantmakers In Health is pleased to convene the CEO Working Group to share election reflections and opportunities for collaboration as we move forward to achieve our health missions. These calls are open to GIH Funding Partner CEOs, Presidents, Executive Directors, or the highest-ranking health staff at multi-issue foundations.

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Firearm Violence Prevention Learning Community: Exploring the Current Policy Landscape

Grantmakers In Health offers a series of Learning Community programs to advance philanthropic strategies for preventing firearm-related deaths and injuries. A growing body of evidence demonstrates that public policies have a significant influence on various types of firearm-related outcomes, including homicides, suicides, and accidental shootings. This virtual convening of the Firearm Violence Prevention Learning Community explored the current policy landscape —both recent policy developments and future opportunities for policy change at the state and federal levels— and considered how philanthropic investments can best inform and influence policymakers. Speakers included Sean Holihan of Giffords, Nick Suplina of Everytown for Gun Safety, and Adzi Vokhiwa of Community Justice Action Fund.

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Medicaid: Protect and Defend

Participants learned about what policy changes and funding cuts are possible with the incoming presidential administration and the 119th U.S. Congress. Presenters shared reflections and suggested opportunities for funders to protect and defend this vital program.

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Roundtable Discussion for Health Funders’ Policy Staff

Join this informal roundtable discussion to connect with your peers, explore pressing issues, and share your perspectives on how election results are likely to influence your organization’s approach to policy change.

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Bridging Health Equity in Indian Country: Navigating the Public Health Crisis

Participants joined this webinar for an in-depth briefing on the current health trends that drove the public health crisis in Indian Country and the critical health policy initiatives that shaped these trends.

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