Margin and Mission-Related Investing: How Hospitals Can Help Build Healthy Communities
As anchor institutions, hospitals can drive place-based change and improve health outcomes through local hiring, procurement, and other efforts that address the social, economic, and environmental factors that shape health.
Philanthropy Talks to Philanthropy
The annual conference showed again this year why it is the premier opportunity for health funders to talk to their peers about challenges, lessons learned, and the path forward.
2017 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy
The 2017 GIH Annual Conference on Health Philanthropy was held from June 21-23 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Reducing the Risk of Exposure to Lead in Drinking Water
Ensuring access to sufficient, safe drinking water has been an essential function of water utilities, public health, and health care professionals around the world for more than a century. The public health community is often on the front lines, responding to elevated blood lead levels—and can speak to the need for prevention.
The Power of Collaboration for Environmental Health and Justice
Eboni Cochran knows when there has been a chemical release from one of the manufacturing facilities near her home in west Louisville, Kentucky. Not because of a warning siren, but because she smells it, then feels the symptoms almost immediately: sinus pain, headache, trouble breathing.