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Advancing Health Equity: How Companies Can Build on the FDA’s …

WEBThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently announced a new requirement for researchers and companies to submit a plan for ensuring diversity among clinical trial participants. At FSG, we’ve been working with life science companies on health equity strategies for several years, and we’re excited to see this announcement taking …

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Breaking the Barriers to Specialty Care

WEBA number of solutions have emerged to improve health outcomes for minority and medically underserved patients. These solutions fall into three main categories: increasing specialty care availability, ensuring high-quality care, and helping patients engage in care. As these inequities are also significant drivers of health costs, payers, health

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Hospitals are Aspiring to Play a Big Role in Social Change

WEBI have a greater appreciation for the ambitious and multi-faceted role the hospitals and health systems are playing in advancing health equity after attending the Association for Community Health Improvement’s (ACHI) recent conference.This conference is part of the American Hospital Association, tailored to hospital employees …

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Why Is The U.S. Healthcare System Still Broken & How Do We …

WEBIn the collective impact model, funding becomes more leveraged because activities are not redundant but mutually reinforcing—you can actually do more with less. To us leading the workshop, it seemed that collective impact might offer a new approach to some of the systemic issues surrounding adolescent health and the healthcare system broadly.

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Health Equity: Three Opportunities for Corporate Philanthropy in …

WEBThe momentum for health equity that began with the arrival of the COVID-19 pandemic is not over. Many corporate philanthropic leaders are reporting a continued—if not expanded—focus on health equity, with more than 80% of C-suite executives naming health equity as a top-10 goal for 2024. Nearly 50% of healthcare and life science …

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Health Care and the Competitive Advantage of Racial Equity

WEBPeople of color in the United States experience poorer health and more premature, preventable mortality than their White counterparts. Although health care companies prioritize achieving health equity, their efforts often focus on disparities caused by poverty, education, and disability without explicitly addressing how structural racism significantly …

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How a New Foundation Utilized Community Voice in their Strategy …

WEBIn 2021, FSG partnered with Natrona Collective Health Trust (NCHT), a new health conversion foundation in Casper, Wyoming, to develop its strategy to improve community health, and to do so in partnership with community members. Place-based foundations have a unique opportunity to co-create strategies with the people they aim …

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Measuring Shared Value Innovation and Impact in Health

WEBDoing so defines 2 distinct levels for shared value measurement: 1) Measuring the innovation: understanding and optimizing progress against key systemic and behavioral barriers to care delivery. 2) Measuring the impact: understanding the effects on individual and population health outcomes as well as broader socio-economic benefits.

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Using Collective Impact in a Public Health Context: Introduction

WEBIn today’s 1 st post of our 4-blog series, we introduce seven initiatives that are using elements of collective impact to address childhood obesity and other public health crises, with promising results.. From Maine to Iowa to California, collective impact is helping to address childhood obesity by facilitating changes in the built environment, regional …

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Change Your Mind Before You Change the System: Taking a Closer …

WEBInfluencing mindsets and mental models requires identifying what current mental models need to be shifted, targeting priority stakeholders for change, and designing strategies that involve target groups. The most effective practitioners, before seeking to influence the thinking of others, first examine their own beliefs and attitudes and their …

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Preventing Diabetes in the Rio Grande Valley

WEBThe Rio Grande Valley, like many other communities in the United States, is facing a diabetes epidemic. In 2000, 8 percent of adults in the region reported having diabetes, and by 2015 that number doubled to 16 percent. Research from the UTHealth School of Public Health in Brownsville estimates that at least as many people with diabetes were …

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Public-Private Partnerships in Emergency Response

WEBThe COVID-19 pandemic was an all-hands-on-deck moment. As communities were jolted into emergency response on many fronts—health, jobs, housing, education, childcare, food, and mental health—collaboration and coordination became essential. In Milwaukee, the Civic Response Team united local governments, philanthropy, and nonprofits to …

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Guide to Shared Value Measurement for Health Solutions …

WEBIn conjunction with the Shared Value Initiative, over 20 corporate leaders and global health experts1 came together to tackle the challenge of measurement.2 This document summarizes the main conclusions from those consultations and provides a framework and practical advice for shared value measurement of health solutions.

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Advancing Gender Equity by Improving Menstrual Health

WEBApproximately one-quarter of the global population are women of reproductive age, most of whom menstruate every month.A core function of a woman’s reproductive system, menstruation is a healthy and normal occurrence in the female body. However, it can—and often does—become a challenge when individuals lack access to the resources, …

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From Health Care to Health — How Might Our Health Care

WEB“Castes — we might think they are from another century, another country — but they are ours, today.”. Isabel Wilkerson, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, shared this message in kicking off this year’s Association for Community Health Improvement’s (ACHI) conference on May 16, 2023.. The American …

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Five Favorite Global Health TED Talks

WEBI want to share with you five terrific TED talks on Global Health that I’ve come across. 1. Hans Rosling, No More Boring Data. Rosling’s talk was the first TED video I ever saw, and got me hooked on TED way back in college. With sharp wit and rapid-fire delivery, he shows how Westerners’ preconceived notions of global health and

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Future of Social Impact: What to Watch for in 2024

WEBAs we enter 2024, we asked leaders across FSG to share how social impact actors can rise to the challenges of the upcoming year. 1. Corporate changemakers will be key to advancing impact. With the rollback on affirmative action in the U.S., ESG backlash, and ongoing inflationary pressures, companies may face strong trepidation and internal

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South Sacramento Building Healthy Communities

WEBThe California Endowment Strategic Review includes three in-depth case studies, two that focus on the experience of two BHC sites, South Sacramento and Santa Ana, and one that examines the foundation’s Sons and Brothers work. These case studies examine why, how, and under what conditions the BHC work is being implemented.

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September 25 – FSG & GEO Webinar on Funding Collective Impact

WEBPlease join us on Tuesday, September 25, to hear from pioneering collective impact funders about various roles that funders can play to fuel successful collective impact effortsInvesting in Change: Funding Collective Impact EffortsSeptember 25, 2012, Noon - 1:00pm ETREGISTER NOW!

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