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…
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…
The COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing economic crisis have had particularly devastating effects on already distressed communities. Latino, Pacific Islander, Indigenous, and Black people, who are historically less healthy and less wealthy than white Americans, have experienced higher death rates, are more likely to have encountered job and other income losses, and face longer-lasting economic fallout…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…