People Post: Staff Changes And Job Openings In Health Philanthropy

Carmen Anderson has been promoted to director of equity and social justice with the Heinz Endowments. The position is within its Children, Youth, and Families program, where she previously was a senior program officer. Before she joined the endowments in 2000, Anderson was the executive director of Healthy Start Inc., a federal public health initiative to reduce infant mortality in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and Allegheny County. Suzanne Brundage has been chosen as the United Hospital Fund’s (UHF’s) inaugural Patricia S. Levinson Fellow. The fellowship aims to advance the UHF’s efforts to improve health care for vulnerable populations. Brundage is program director of the UHF’s Children’s Health Initiative. A core principle of the initiative “is to harness the untapped opportunity for pediatric primary care practices to identify psychosocial risks to early childhood development, and connect children and families to supports and resources” to help lessen such risks, a press release explained. An example of a psychosocial risk would be exposure to violence in the home or neighborhood, Brundage told me. “Suzanne’s work is helping promote optimal health and development during the first five years of life, with a special focus on the 40 percent of New York [State’s] children living in low-income families,” Jim Tallon, president of the UHF, said in the release. The Robert A. and Patricia S. Levinson Award Fund at the New York Community Trust supports the Levinso...
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