GIH Bulletin: April 2015
This year marks the 100th anniversary of National Negro Health Week and the 30th anniversary of the Heckler Report. Both were milestones in the quest for reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care.
Pathways to Health
Each year GIH invites grantmakers to share their perspectives by writing essays devoted to the annual conference theme. This year’s writers have put their thoughts to paper regarding their journeys on Pathways to Health. We invite you to read the guest commentaries and the GIH essay written by Faith Mitchell.
Beyond Grantmaking: Health Foundations as Policy Change Agents
This GIH report seeks to help the field of health philanthropy maximize its strategic potential and minimize the difficulties inherent in taking on new roles by both describing ways funders are directly engaging in policy change efforts and distilling the key lessons learned from these experiences.
GIH Bulletin: March 2015
This year’s annual conference in Austin, Texas, was a multidimensional exploration of the theme Pathways to Health. Dynamic plenary speakers set the tone, beginning with Patrick Kennedy (The Kennedy Forum)
GIH Bulletin: February 2015
This January, members of GIH’s board and senior staff visited Havana, Cuba, with MEDICC, an organization licensed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury to conduct people-to-people trips to Cuba.
GIH Bulletin: January 2015
At a recent conference on the science of dissemination and implementation, sponsored by AcademyHealth and the National Institutes of Health, I participated in a panel on the contributions of research to achieving progress in health equity.
GIH Bulletin: December 2014
You may have noticed that next year’s gathering in Austin is called the GIH annual conference, not the annual meeting. The difference is more than semantic.