Building Consensus Around a Health Funding Agenda

This GIH Issue Focus explores consensus building as a critical means of effective problem solving in society.

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Strategies for Reducing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health

This Issue Brief, based on a May 2000 Issue Dialogue, begins by documenting disparities for six health conditions targeted by the federal government and explores some of the underlying causes of health disparities. The report presents examples of philanthropic strategies, as well as federal and state initiatives, and offers conclusions about the challenges foundations are likely to face in working to eliminate health disparities.

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Childhood Immunization: Protecting Individuals and Communities

Childhood immunizations are one of the greatest public health achievements in modern times. Questions, however, have been raised about the value and safety of specific vaccines – underscoring the need for balanced, accurate information about vaccines and the diseases they prevent. 

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Spanning the Generations: Putting Health Grantmaking in an Intergenerational Context

This report features keynote addresses by Marian Wright Edelman, John W. Rowe, and Gene Cohen.

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Social Inequalities in Health

This report featuring keynote addresses from the February 1999 GIH Annual Meeting on Health Philanthropy by Nicole Lurie, Robert G. Evans, Velvet Miller, and John W. Murphy.

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The Interface Between Public Policy and the Private Sector

Read the keynote speech from GIH’s Washington Briefing by Mark Smith, president and CEO of California HealthCare Foundation.

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Call to Action: Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health

GIH produced both a chartbook and proceedings from this national leadership conference cosponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.  The proceedings highlight keynote remarks from Surgeon General David Satcher.

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