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**The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs**

**Thursday, January 28, 2021**

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TODAY ON THE BLOG

GLOBAL HEALTH

Revitalizing Global Health Policy In The Post-Trump Era

By Kashmira Chawla, Makela C. Stankey, Jacquelyn Corley, and Craig D.
McClain

The Biden administration must create a more inclusive, decolonized,
accountable policy plan for global health security by partnering with
other countries to support equitable health care and resilient health
systems. Read More >>

GRANTWATCH MONTHLY ROUND-UP

Incorporating Health Equity Into An Initiative To Transform Care For
Older Adults

By Faith Mitchell (1/14/21)

Funded by The John A. Hartford Foundation, the Age-Friendly Health
Systems initiative at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement will also
look at equity. After documenting the racial and ethnic breakdown of
their patients, participating health care providers will analyze health
outcomes, stratified by race and ethnicity, and take follow-up actions,
as needed, to address disparities. The American Hospital Association and
Catholic Health Association of the United States are partnering on the
age-friendly initiative. Read More >>

The Five Most-Read GrantWatch Blog Posts Of 2020

By Lee-Lee Prina (1/6/21)

These five posts-including two, not surprisingly, on COVID-19-were
the most read during this past year in our section on health
philanthropy. Read More >>

People Post: Foundation Staffers' Comings And Goings, Honors; Job
Openings At Foundations

By Lee-Lee Prina (12/22/20)

Read news from the past few months at foundations that fund in health:
new hires, staff who have moved on, a key foundation staffer named to
the Biden-Harris Transition's COVID-19 Advisory Board, a foundation
president elected to the National Academy of Medicine, and more. Read
More >>

Building Health: Lessons From Seven Years Of The Healthy Futures Fund

By Carol Cahill, Chris M. Kabel, and Emily Bourcier (12/10/20)

Between 2012 and 2019, the Healthy Futures Fund (HFF), a collaboration
of the Kresge Foundation, the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, and
Morgan Stanley, invested $180 million to finance projects that embed
health-enhancing features and services in real estate development. The
fund experimented with two existing tax credit programs to finance those
projects. Lessons from an evaluation of the HFF are especially timely
given the increasing number of hospital systems and health plans
investing in affordable housing and other forms of community
development. Read More >>

Partnering With Law Enforcement To Improve Health Outcomes In Rural
Communities

By Elizabeth Ruen, Fred Lamphere, and Wayne Booze (12/2/20)

Many are unaware of rural law enforcement's critical role in caring for
people-for example, when residents are experiencing mental health
crises and heart attacks. The Helmsley Charitable Trust, which funds
rural health care in a seven-state Upper Midwest region, recognized this
role and launched two initiatives: Virtual Crisis Care (using
telehealth) and Automatic External Defibrillators for Law Enforcement.
With officers using these technologies, the initiatives' early results
look promising. Read More >>

IN THE JOURNAL

GRANTWATCH

Substance Use Disorders: Funding For Prevention

By Lee L. Prina

The January 2021 GrantWatch column focuses on the efforts of foundations
around the country to prevent substance use disorders, including opioid
addiction and alcoholism. Two foundations mentioned are broadening their
focus from the opioid epidemic to substance use disorder in general.
Among subjects mentioned are harm reduction strategies, the role of
Medicaid in treatment, and how COVID-19 is affecting opioid-related
mortality. And in personnel news, the May and Stanley Smith Charitable
Trust, located in California, has a new CEO. (Its funding priorities are
adults and transitioning youth with disabilities, elders, foster youth,
and veterans and military families.) Read More >>

Read the January 2021 Table of Contents
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**A CLOSER LOOK**-Community Health Workers Around The World

Community health workers strengthen health systems and provide care to
those hardest to reach. When integrated within primary health systems,
community health workers can be an important lever to respond to health
crises, provide routine care, and serve as a link to health systems for
hundreds of millions of people. In an August 2015 blog post, Wendy
Taylor discusses what it will take to develop and scale-up cadres of
community health workers around the world
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