Megan Weil Latshaw

This new toolkit from Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate is filled with actionable strategies for embedding climate-readiness and sustainability into healthcare system operations. Check it out:

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🌾 In rural development, donor coordination is a necessity. Fragmented efforts lead to inefficiencies, duplication and missed opportunities for real impact. The Global Donor Platform for Rural Development continues to advocate for harmonized strategies, shared data and aligned investments among donors to ensure funding supports sustainable, inclusive and resilient rural communities. 🤝 When donors work together, solutions get stronger and the development impact goes further. 

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Have you heard about the National Institutes of Health’s new approach to multi-year funding? ACT for NIH’s latest one-pager explains how the widespread use of this funding mechanism (also referred to as forward funding) led to a reduction in the number of FY 2025 grant awards and could further strain success rates in the future. Fewer grants. Lower success rates. Higher stakes.

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NEW RESOURCE | The National Rural Health Association and Stratis Health have released "Rural Healthy Aging: Policy and Infrastructure Opportunities for the Rural Health Transformation Program (RHTP)." As rural communities age faster than urban areas, this guide highlights how states can integrate healthy aging priorities into RHTP by leveraging aging infrastructure such as AAAs, ADRCs, Community Care Hubs, caregiver supports, and LTSS. The resource outlines key opportunities including strengthening access and navigation, supporting caregivers and the direct care workforce, expanding technology and transportation, and advancing integrated care models like PACE. Explore the resource here: https://ow.ly/Q62i50Y7FK4 #RuralHealth #HealthyAging #AgeFriendlyCare #Caregiving #HealthPolicy #OlderAdults #AgeFriendly

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"The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced today that it has awarded a $100 million, five-year grant to the Sentinel project...The Sentinel team has trained more than 3,000 public health workers from 53 of 54 countries in Africa in genomics, diagnostics, sequencing, and bioinformatics, and has also supported outbreak response for Marburg virus, mpox, Lassa fever, dengue, and COVID-19." https://lnkd.in/eSUXWivT

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Not quite open for applications yet, but something you may want to consider to increase your breadth of experience and focus on promoting public health and science policy.

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The ETSU/NORC Rural Health Research Center has released two new briefs on block grant funding for rural communities. These briefs examine: ✅ Distribution of Block Grant Funding: Considerations for Rural Communities ✅ A Rural Lens on Federal Block Grant Distribution This research can inform policymakers, practitioners, and community leaders working to ensure block grant programs more effectively meet rural needs. 🔗 Explore the briefs on the Rural Health Research Gateway: https://lnkd.in/ef-aDbHB https://lnkd.in/eGkhXrew Casey Balio, PhD, Margaret Melton Francisco, DrPH, MPH, Michael Meit, Kate Beatty, PhD

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The goal of this two-year fellowship is to advance research that evaluates immediate and long-term public health benefits and costs of climate change mitigation and adaptation actions, and to translate that science into practical insights for communities, policymakers, and practitioners. Candidates from a range of disciplines, including those with expertise in health policy, economics, and the social sciences, are considered.

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