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Foundation Welcomes New and Returning Members of Its Board of Directors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Courtney Z. Stewart Missouri Foundation for Health (314) 345-5505 cstewart@mffh.org Foundation Welcomes New and Returning Members of Its Board of Directors ST. LOUIS, MO (January 13, 2021) – Missouri Foundation for Health, today, announced the addition of four new members to its Board of Directors. The new members’ terms went into…
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Ensuring Healthy Moms: The Case for Extending Medicaid Postpartum Coverage
Missouri is experiencing a maternal mortality crisis, with mortality rates double the national average. The situation is even more dire for Black parents, who die from pregnancy-related complications four times more often than white parents. Researchers have found that many of these deaths stem from preventable causes and occur later in the postpartum period. Although…
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Learning & Research
At MFH, we are committed to continuous learning. This looks different depending on the challenge we’re addressing, but every step we take is guided by our values – especially humility and equity. We work collaboratively with our partners and the communities we serve to create a shared vision and collectively define what success looks like.…
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Kindled in Ferguson
I remember August 9, 2014, very well. I was home from college for the summer – my first break after declaring my major in sociology. I was a wide-eyed 20 –year–old, armed with the knowledge of systemic racism gifted to me by public university professors. I knew the terminology, and the theory, and had seen…
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What Makes a Healthy Community?
In the mid-90s the Bosnian war brought thousands of Muslim refugees to St. Louis. As the resettlement began, many locals had a predictable and understandable reaction – fear of the unknown. But time passed, and both native-born St. Louisans and the refugees learned from one another. The Bosnians settled into their new country, went to…
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Firearm Injury and Death Prevention- Learning Support Group Facilitator (Request for Contracted Service Proposals)
Missouri Foundation for Health (MFH) is requesting proposals from qualified contractors to facilitate a learning support group with MFH’s firearm injury and death prevention grantees.
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Women’s Health in Missouri: Going in the Wrong Direction
When Governor Mike Parson signed House Bill 126 into law on May 24th, he stated this action signaled that Missouri stands for protecting women’s health. This law is just the latest action that flies in the face of a preponderance of evidence, conflicts with widespread consensus among health professionals, and will, in fact, be harmful,…
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Missouri’s Public Health Response to COVID-19: Key Findings and Recommendations for State Action and Investment
This report from the study, Strengthening Missouri’s Capacity to Respond to Public Health Crises, summarizes key findings that are relevant to strengthening the state’s and local public health agencies’ (LPHAs) capacity to respond to future public health crises. With funding from Missouri Foundation for Health, a George Washington University study team conducted 138 stakeholder interviews…
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Navigating COVID-19: Health Policy Solutions – Housing
The economic crisis caused by COVID-19 threatens housing stability across the nation. With record unemployment, many Americans are struggling to pay the bills, putting them at eventual risk for eviction or utility shutoff. A patchwork of federal, state, and local responses has focused on keeping people in their homes through eviction moratoriums, rental assistance, and…
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Opioid Crisis: Strategies and Approaches
In response to the increase in opioid use, overdose, and death, state and national stakeholders have deployed a range of strategies to address the crisis. A review of the literature on ways to address the issue reveal an emerging list of comprehensive, evidence-based approaches that have been effective at reducing the incidence of opioid use,…
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Extreme Risk Protection Orders: A Firearm Violence Intervention
As many states grapple with attempts to curb rising rates of firearm violence, the Consortium for Risk-Based Firearm Policy, a multidisciplinary group of experts committed to advancing evidence-based gun violence prevention policies, recommends states enact a risk-based firearm removal policy widely known as an extreme risk protection order (ERPO).1 ERPOs are short-term preventative protective orders…
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Harm Reduction: A Strategy to Reduce the Toll of Substance Use in Missouri
Harm reduction is a public health strategy that aims to reduce the negative consequences of substance use for individualsand minimize social harms. The primary goals of harm reduction techniques are reducing infectious disease transmission,improving public safety, providing supportive services and lifesaving medications, improving pathways to treatment, andultimately reducing substance use disorder (SUD) and overdose rates.…