Posts Tagged ‘COVID-19’
2020 Virtual Fall Forum
Each fall, GIH offers programming designed for funders with a strong interest in health policy. These meetings, collectively known as the Fall Forum, are an excellent opportunity for funders with a strong interest in health policy to get up-to-speed on current issues, interact with leading thinkers, and connect with their grantmaking peers.
Read MoreState and Local Budgets: The Next COVID-19 Battlefront
Join this webinar to learn more about the state and local fiscal crisis, lessons learned from the Great Recession, key principles for an equitable response, and how state and local advocates are gearing up for the budget battles to come.
Read MoreIs 2020 Over? Responding to Multiple Disasters Amid COVID-19 and Climate Change
In this webinar, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy team reflected on lessons learned, challenges and opportunities presented by different disasters— particularly wildfires, hurricanes and the derecho—and how COVID-19 has framed the response.
Read MoreCOVID-19, Drug Policy, and Racial Justice
Efforts to reduce reliance on the criminal justice system and instead increase access to community-based harm reduction, mental health, and substance use services are underway across the country. This webinar featured a discussion on federal, state, and local efforts to strengthen social safety nets and expand access to effective overdose prevention and harm reduction interventions.
Read MoreCOVID-19 Grants and Programs – September 2020
The latest on COVID-19 grants and programs from the field.
Read MoreFramework for Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has invited public comment on the Discussion Draft of the Preliminary Framework for Equitable Allocation of COVID-19 Vaccine.
Read MorePandemic Policy Playbook: Assessing Legal Responses to COVID-19
The Network for Public Health Law has joined with public health law partners to produce a report that includes critical analyses and recommendations from 50 national experts convened to assess the U.S. policy response to the crisis to date. This new report offers policy recommendations on 35 wide-ranging topics, including pandemic preparedness, access to health care, voter health and safety, protections for essential workers, food insecurity and immigration policy.
Read MorePacing Ourselves for the Struggle of a Lifetime
As we head into Fall, let us take a moment to rest, recharge, and to care for one another so that we are prepared to meet the challenges ahead. Let us also remain hopeful, knowing that together we can accomplish anything.
Read MoreCOVID-19 Grants and Programs – August 2020
The latest on COVID-19 grants and programs from the field.
Read MoreRethink, Reorient, Reimagine Health and Housing
The pandemic has blatantly exposed the longstanding inequities in America due to institutional and systemic racism that people of color have experienced for far too long. It has brought to
light the need to urgently rethink and reorient our role in reimagi
ng the affordable housing
sector — one that brings health in reach for all.