Healthy Water, Healthy People

March 16, 2017

When it comes to our health, we tend to take water for granted. But as we have been reminded recently, failures within our fragile water systems can quickly become public health disasters. What is worse is that the people who are hit hardest typically live in our most vulnerable communities.

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Healthy Food, Healthy People: The Relationship Between Food and Real Estate

February 2, 2017

This webinar was an engaging discussion of how cross-sectoral partnerships among real estate developers, public sector institutions, universities, restauranteurs, chefs, farmers, and food retailers can support the health of people and the planet.

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Climate Change, Equity, and Health: How Funders Can Make a Difference

December 16, 2014

This webinar explored climate change through the lens of the social determinants of health; the long-term and immediate health and equity benefits of climate change strategies; and the ways in which health, equity, and environmental funders can intensify their impact.

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Creating Healthier Communities to Reverse Childhood Obesity

January 9, 2012

Learn how the YMCA’s Healthier Communities Initiatives, which include Pioneering Healthier Communities, Action Communities for Health, Innovation, & Environmental Change, and Statewide Pioneering Healthier Communities, are helping to address the obesity epidemic.

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Climate Change Is a Health Problem

December 10, 2007

The debate is over; climate change is real. Further, the human health impacts of climate change are now being felt. The World Health Organization estimated that since 1990, climatic changes already have claimed at least 150,000 deaths and an additional 5.5 million years of life lost to premature death or lived with disabilities (2003).

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Systemic Contaminants: Making Sense of an Environmental Health Threat

March 6, 2001

This GIH Issue Focus examines the causes and effects of systemic contaminants, and describes what grantmakers can do to respond.

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