Health Policy Update: April 17, 2025
In an effort to help our Funding Partners better understand the changing health policy landscape in the new administration and Congress, Grantmakers In Health (GIH) is expanding the GIH Health Policy Update newsletter to three issues per month. Working in collaboration with Leavitt Partners, a leading health care policy consultancy, we are adding new installments of the newsletter on the first and third Wednesdays of the month, while we will continue to partner with Trust for America’s Health on the installment released on the second Wednesday of the month.
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.
Youth Mentoring: A Social Development Approach to Youth Health Promotion
When health is defined as the absence of illness and injury, youth fare well. But when that definition is broadened to include emotional, social, and environmental health issues, it becomes clear that youth face significant health problems and health risks. This Issue Brief highlights the work of grantmakers who are supporting mentoring as a strategy for addressing the root causes of adolescent health problems and promoting healthy youth development.
Coping With Managed Care: Responding to the Needs of the Elderly
This Issue Brief discusses the challenges surrounding Medicare managed care and its ability to meet the needs of elderly beneficiaries. The publication presents related trends, issues related to the elderly as active health care consumers, and grantmaker opportunities and lessons learned.
Tracking Foundations Created from Conversions
Since 1980, more than 170 foundations have been created as the result of the conversion of nonprofit hospitals, health plans, and health systems. GIH periodically surveys these organizations to learn about their grantmaking and operations.
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.
Philanthropy’s Newest Members: Findings from the 1999 Survey of New Health Foundations
This GIH report presents findings from our 1999 survey of new health foundations.
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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