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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.

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.

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.

Over the past year, GIH board members have sponsored receptions in their home communities, a wonderful opportunity to meet grantmakers across the country.

Austin-Bailey Health and Wellness Foundation (Canton, OH) awarded grants totaling $179,952 to 16 nonprofit organizations located in the four-county area of Holmes, Stark, Tuscarawas, and Wayne in Ohio.

The recent shooting death of African-American teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, is a painful reminder of the deeply entrenched divisions and tensions that plague too many American communities fractured by decades of racial discrimination, poverty, and disinvestment.