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This year residents in a variety of counties throughout Missouri will get some extra help starting 2015 off healthy at home, in school and throughout their communities. As part of Healthy Schools Healthy Communities (HSHC), an initiative of Missouri Foundation for Health, schools and community members are working together to increase access to healthy food.…
As news reports attempt to keep up with the fast-paced developments in ideas for fundamentally changing the nation’s health insurance infrastructure for low-and moderate-income Americans, we should focus on the underlying ideas driving the debates. Paying careful attention to the language used to talk about the features of various proposals to modify the 2010 Patient…
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…
Our default view of health is to think in terms of individuals – a specific disease or disability or how long a person will live. But a perspective that focuses only on one person omits a crucial, indispensable component of health: the well-being of people collectively. When we talk about the health of a family,…
Sometimes things work out exactly how they are supposed to. Call it kismet, call it karma, call it dumb luck. For me it happened in 2017, when an organization called Children’s Rights reached out to talk about some work they wanted to do in Missouri. At the time, I had been working in the Health…
On December 14, during Missouri Foundation for Health’s annual dinner hosted by its Board of Directors, Dr. Jason Purnell will accept the 2016 Dr. Corinne Walentik Leadership in Health Award. Purnell is an assistant professor at Washington University’s Brown School of Social Work and project director of For the Sake of All, a multi-disciplinary project…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Courtney Stewart Missouri Foundation for Health (314) 345-5505 cstewart@mffh.org Regional Leaders Gather to Discuss Strategy to “Get Out the Count” for the 2020 Census ST. LOUIS, MO (May 23, 2019) – On May 31, representatives from a variety of sectors including nonprofit, business, and governmental organizations will meet to discuss strategies to…
August 9th should cause us all to take time for reflection. Michael Brown Jr.’s killing five years ago was a tragedy for his family, and it sparked a tempest of activity that came to be known simply as “Ferguson.” Ferguson reached across greater St. Louis, the country, and around the world, tattooing an identity on…