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HEFN/GIH Funder Webinar - Investing Upstream and Downstream: Broadening Collaboration to Tackle Health Disparities
This webinar will discuss current research and efforts to reduce health disparities among poor and minority populations in the United States. GIH and HEFN are pleased to offer this webinar for funders across portfolio interests for a shared look at federal actions, research findings, and philanthropic opportunities on health disparities. (January 31, 2012; Funder Webinar)
- Event Types(s)
- Other
- When
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Jan 31, 2012 03:30 PM
Jan 31, 2012 05:00 PM
Jan 31, 2012
from 03:30 pm to 05:00 pm - Where
- Eastern Time
- Geographic Areas
- National
- Focus area(s)
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- Environmental Health
- Environmental Justice
- Health
- Contact Name
- Ramtin Arablouei
- Contact Phone
- 301-656-7650
- Contact Email
- rarablouei@hefn.org
HEFN/GIH Funder Webinar
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
3:30 pm Eastern / 12:30 pm Pacific
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Join the Health and Environmental Funders Network and Grantmakers In Health for a webinar to discuss current research and efforts to reduce health disparities among poor and minority populations in the United States. GIH and HEFN are pleased to offer this webinar for funders across portfolio interests for a shared look at federal actions, research findings, and philanthropic opportunities on health disparities.
There is clear, compelling evidence that minorities and the poor have measurably poorer health outcomes than do majority white populations. This funder webinar will highlight research on the diverse drivers of disparities, as well as opportunities to collaborate across efforts to improve health for all.
Many foundations are concerned about disparities and their connections to factors like poverty, race and ethnicity, age, or neighborhood. Numerous health grantmakers address health disparities and health equity through giving programs related to vulnerable populations, health care access, or quality of care. Grantmakers in several other issue areas also are addressing determinants of health and health equity, for example through investments in environmental justice, housing, or food access.
The webinar will begin with an overview of:
The webinar also will offer presentations on:
Research and analysis linking upstream and downstream disparities work. Howard Hu, MD, MPH, PhD, will discuss research that links cumulative risk and racial disparities, as well as his recommendations for policies to tackle these issues. Hu is a physician and public health expert, currently serving as chair and environmental health sciences professor at University of Michigan; he has recently been named incoming Director of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto, effective July 2012.
Philanthropy on disparities. Faith Mitchell (Vice President of GIH) and Kathy Sessions (Director of HEFN) will summarize takeaways from a recent article they co-authored in Health Affairs outlining past philanthropic investments in disparities work and emerging investments to address social, economic, and environmental determinants of health.
Following this sixty-minute webinar will be an optional thirty minutes of funder-only conversation.
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