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Community Advisory Council Gains Three New Members
Missouri Foundation for Health is proud to introduce the three newest members of its Community Advisory Council (CAC), Miranda Lewis, Wilma Schmitz, and Heather Zoromski. All three hail from different regions in Missouri, and each will offer her own unique expertise and insight to this important group. Their participation helps give the Foundation greater community…
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Why the American Health Care Act is the Wrong Medicine
American health care is sick. It is a big, complicated, vitally important part of American society – it is woven into our culture, our values, our economy, our communities, our births, our deaths, and our daily lives. It has the enormous charge of keeping us healthy, healing our ills, and easing our transitions into and…
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Foundation Welcomes Newcomers and Returning Incumbents to its Board
Missouri Foundation for Health recently welcomed three new members to its Board of Directors. Judy Baker, K. Brooks Miller Jr., and Ryan Rippel were nominated and voted into the 15-member group, effective January 1, 2018. Baker and Miller previously served on the Foundation’s Community Advisory Council. Reelected incumbents include Connie Cunningham, Janet Gooch, and Andwele…
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Will We Hear the Voices of the LGBTQ Community?
This piece was originally published in Grantmakers in Health’s Views From the Field. Across the United States we are seeing a coordinated campaign to restrict lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) rights and limit access to affirming, lifesaving health care. According to the Equality Federation, nearly 400 anti-LGBTQ bills were introduced across the country…
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Listening to Black and Latino Missourians’ Experiences: Still Learning from COVID- 19
This blog was co-authored by Jennifer Trott, MPH, Lead Research Scientist, The George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health, Department of Health Policy and Management and Katherine Fritz, PhD, MPH, Vice President of Learning and Research, Missouri Foundation for Health. While many Missourians see COVID-19 as a threat of the past, Black and…
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Foundation Welcomes Executive Director of Build Missouri Health
Foundation Welcomes Executive Director of Build Missouri Health Hall Ratliff Poised to Chart Course, Shape Nonprofit ST. LOUIS, MO (July 6) –Missouri Foundation for Health today announced that nonprofit Build Missouri Health (BMH) welcomes Jasmine N. Hall Ratliff as its inaugural executive director. Jasmine begins in her role on July 11, 2022. About BMH…
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What is Really Needed to Improve the Health of Black Women?
My mother recently passed away, and as I reflected on her life and thought about my work in women’s health, I couldn’t help but consider the impact “isms” had on her health and well-being across her 85 years. It’s my belief that oppressive actions by individuals and societal systems has a detrimental health impact. We…
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MFH Program Director Accepts Position as President and CEO in Rochester, NY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Courtney Stewart Missouri Foundation for Health (314) 345-5505 cstewart@mffh.org MFH Program Director Accepts Position as President and CEO in Rochester, NY Matthew A. Kuhlenbeck named new head of Greater Rochester Health Foundation ST. LOUIS, MO (November 15, 2018) – Missouri Foundation for Health officially announces the resignation of Program Director Matthew…
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Leveling the Playing Field: Fairness and Health
Growing up, my sense of fairness came from two things. The first is sports. My dad was a coach. He coached football, basketball, and track during the school year and gave swimming lessons in the summer. I grew up in small towns in central Illinois – Lincoln, Gibson City, Kankakee – and then we moved…
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New Partnership Established to Reduce St. Louis City’s Incarceration Rate and Improve Health
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Courtney Stewart Missouri Foundation for Health cstewart@mffh.org (314) 345-5505 New Partnership Established to Reduce St. Louis City’s Incarceration Rate and Improve Health ST. LOUIS, MO (August 5, 2018) – Recognizing the long-term negative health effects that high incarceration rates have on communities, Missouri Foundation for Health has formed a new partnership with…
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A Shattering Week
If ever there was time to discuss suicide, it was the week of June 4th. That Tuesday brought the news that fashion designer Kate Spade had taken her own life. On Friday, with Spade’s death still fresh on our minds, we were rocked by the suicide of celebrity chef and author Anthony Bourdain. Then, as…
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Missouri Foundation for Health Launches The Net Benefit
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Courtney Stewart Missouri Foundation for Health cstewart@mffh.org (314) 345-5505 Missouri Foundation for Health Launches The Net Benefit Campaign to lift up Missourians’ stories about the importance of meeting basic needs ST. LOUIS, MO (June 26, 2018) – Missouri Foundation for Health has launched The Net Benefit, a campaign to educate Missourians…