
Elena Marks: Shifting the Health Conversation
EHF’s founding president and CEO Elena Marks writes about her efforts to shift the conversation to HEALTH, not just health care and says serving at EHF has been the “highlight of my career.”

EHF’s founding president and CEO Elena Marks writes about her efforts to shift the conversation to HEALTH, not just health care and says serving at EHF has been the “highlight of my career.”

The one-time, unrestricted gift from the national philanthropist will be used to maximize the impact of EHF’s ongoing grantmaking, research, and community engagement programs.

With support from EHF, experts at Dell Med School are helping partners across Texas normalize nutrition as an antidote to disease. One day, your health plan might pay for it like any other treatment.

A large majority of Texans say it’s very important for candidates to address issues that make health care more affordable, and more than half say state lawmakers should increase state spending on health care. Those are just some the results of EHF’s statewide poll on health care access and affordability in Texas.

Texas Primary Care Consortium presents the award to EHF’s founding CEO for her “irreplaceable contributions” to changing the culture of primary care in Texas.

The report from the Institute for Medicaid Innovation looks at best practices for providing equitable access to COVID vaccines, increasing access to food and housing, improving maternal health, and more for Medicaid enrollees.

EHF’s largest single grant cycle to date will fund innovative projects helping clinics and organizations go beyond the doctor’s office, focus on non-medical causes of poor health like food insecurity, poverty, unsafe housing, and more.

Organizations from the six community sites selected for EHF’s Texas Accountable Communities for Health Initiative (TACHI) met in Houston for an important convening to learn evidence-informed strategies for putting health equity strategies to use.