2016 Lauren LeRoy Health Policy Lecture: Manuel Pastor
No Longer at Ease… Making Change for Health in an Uncertain Next America Manuel Pastor, Professor of Sociology and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California and director of both the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity and the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration, discusses demographic, economic, and political changes occurring…
Connecting the Dots between Transportation and Health Equity
This webinar explored how foundations, local communities, and other cross-sector partners are working together to address the intersections of health and transit.
Going for the Win-Win: Exploring Approaches to Climate, Health, and Equity Co-Benefit Investments
This webinar explored ways of thinking about climate, health, and equity co-benefit approaches, and speakers shared examples and experiences from co-benefits work, reflecting on strengths, limitations, and lessons as groundwork for discussion
Community-Based Health Systems: Using Housing as a Platform
This webinar explored how housing-based service models address the social determinants of health, promote population health, and advance health care systems change.
Community Health Needs Assessments that Advance the Social Determinants of Health
This webinar explored the range of strategies hospitals are using to incorporate the social determinants of health into CHNAs and discussed how funders can partner with hospitals to support these efforts.
Next Steps in Health Equity: Addressing Racial and Economic Inequality
Next Steps in Health Equity: Addressing Racial and Economic Inequality was held on Tuesday, July 19, 2016 in New York, New York.
Bridging Community Development, Health, and Metrics
The community development sector plays a vital role in improving neighborhood conditions, lifting people and places out of poverty, and transforming the health of low-income communities. Increasingly, community development financial institutions (CDFIs) are partnering with health foundations to invest in health-promoting efforts such as affordable housing, health clinics, grocery stores, and child care centers.
Using Housing as a Platform to Improve Health
This webinar discussed how foundations are collaborating across sectors to address housing barriers, and supporting innovative approaches such as permanent supportive housing.
2016 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy
The 2016 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy was held from March 9-11, 2016 in San Diego, California.
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Innovations in Health Equity
As foundations begin to think differently about how to improve the health of all people, many grantmakers are looking outside of health care and collaborating across sectors to address the root causes of persistent health disparities and inequities. Achieving health equity requires innovative solutions that result from the combined forces of philanthropy, policymakers, government, community-based organizations, and other partners.
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