Funder Example: Mt. Sinai Health Care Foundation

With contributions from Daniel Cohn. Mt. Sinai’s mission is to support organizations throughout Greater Cleveland that improve the health and well-being of the Jewish and general communities. The Foundation focuses on primary prevention and early intervention, especially protecting and improving the health of people from communities that have been historically marginalized. Like many health care…

Funder Example: The Kresge Foundation

With contributions from Phyllis Meadows. The Kresge Foundation’s Health team has centered its work over the past few years on a set of strategic goals to address health inequities and persistent health disparities. Our underlying approaches place communities as the anchors in organizing how partnerships, policy, power and leadership can be enhanced to improve health…

Funder Example: Missouri Foundation for Health

With contributions from Ryan Barker. At the Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH), we focus on public health insurance through our Health Policy shop and two of our Strategic Initiatives (Advocacy and Medicaid Expansion). Our work encompasses research, grants, education, and contract work to achieve our goals of protecting, expanding, and enhancing the Medicaid and CHIP…

Medicaid and Wealth Inequality: Meet the researcher – Naomi Zewde

Thursday, March 19 * 2:00 – 2:30 pm Eastern Does Medicaid have an impact on whether poor families can stay in their homes? What about on poverty rates? How has Medicaid expansion affected families experiencing poverty?   Learn all of this and more with Naomi Zewde! Naomi is an Assistant Professor of health policy and…