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The Latest Research, Commentary, and News from Health Affairs
Thursday, January 28, 2021
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Sponsored by the University of California, Irvine, Program in Public Health
The University of California, Irvine, Program in Public Health, Susan and Henry Samueli College of Health Sciences, is seeking applicants for a full-time tenure-track faculty position in Health Policy within the newly formed Department of Health, Society, and Behavior (DHSB). We invite applications at the Associate or Full Professor level in the area of health policy. Apply HERE today!
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TODAY ON THE BLOG
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 >>
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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 >>
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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 >>
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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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