APHA 2025 PHFN Program (Washington, DC) 

• Workshop: Grantmaking Foundations and Public Health: Who Are They, What Do They Do and How Do Nonprofits Access Funding? 
• Stronger Smiles for a Better Tomorrow: Working Alongside Communities to Embolden the Oral Health Workforce
• Prioritizing Lived Experience as a Core Tenet of Health Equity 
• Collaborating for Change: Advancing Evidence-Based Perinatal Substance Use Disorder Care Across Communities and Systems
• Public Health Funder Network Social Hour (Sponsored by the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation) 
• Public Health Funder Network Business Meeting 
• Hospitals and Beyond:  A Case for Health Funder Investment through the Community Safety Ecosystem 
• Beyond Band-Aids: Innovative Community Partnerships in Food is Medicine and Over-the Counter Benefits 
• Addressing the Nursing Shortage in Safety Net Hospitals in New York State by Building Healthy Work Environments for Nurses 
• Powering Change: How a Multi-Sector, Intermediary Funder Model Can Respond to Critical Public Health Priorities  

APHA 2024 PHFN Program (Minneapolis, MN)

• Public-Private Partnerships for CHW Workforce Sustainability: Best Practices for Developing Successful Collaborations
• Community-Driven Change to Build/Rebuild Trust: Learnings from Texas Funders
• Rebuilding Trust through Collaboration: Investing in Public-Private Partnerships to Address the Health Impacts of Climate Change
• Public Health Funder Network Social Hour (Sponsored by the Center for Prevention, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota)
• Public Health Funder Network Business Meeting
• Leveraging Philanthropy and Public-Private Partnerships to Drive Medicaid Reform: Advancing Equity in Care for Children 0-6 Years Old
• Mapping the Terrain: Philanthropy’s Evolving Approaches to Health Equity
• Rebuilding Trust: Funding Food-Is-Medicine Approaches in Communities of Color

APHA 2023 PHFN Program (Atlanta GA) 

• Promoting Health Justice in School Environments: Advancing Access to Mental Health Resources and Transforming School Disciplinary Policies as a Public Health Imperative
• Black-Led Community-Based Organizations Advancing Public Health Equity
• Public Health Funder Network Social Hour Sponsored by The Fulton-Dekalb Hospital Authority)
• Public Health Funder Network Business Meeting 
• Transforming NIH Research through Community Engaged Research, Health Equity Structural Interventions, and Advancing Health Communication
• Demystifying Philanthropy through Public-Private Partnerships: the Collective Impact of the Live Well Lake County Program
• Stronger Together: Models of Foundation Partnerships that Respond to the Opioid Crisis
• Demystifying Public-Private Partnerships in Philanthropy in the South: Lessons from Georgia

APHA 2022 PHFN Program (Boston, MA) 

• Foundations as the Bridge: Translating Community Identified Behavioral Health Access Challenges to a Publicly Funded Solution
• Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundations – 3 perspectives on promoting Equity in Philanthropy
• Public Health Funder Network Social Hour(Sponsored by the BlueCross BlueShield of Massachusetts Foundation)
• Public Health Funder Network Business Meeting
• Engaging a Multi-sector Collaboration Toward Achieving Age-Friendly Health Systems in New York State
• Accountable Communities of/for Health: Growing evidence for multi-sector collaboratives as vehicles for advancing equity and improving community health
• Decarcerate and Rehabilitate: Exploring philanthropy's role in solving incarceration through true partnership
• The Health First Collaborative – A model to align philanthropy with the movement for health justice in Chicagoland

APHA 2021 PHFN Program (Denver, CO and online) 

• Communities of Solutions: Strengthening Civic Muscle in South Texas 
• Reimagining Philanthropy: Highlights of CDC Foundation Partnership and Strategies to Address Shifting Public Health Needs during the COVID-19 Pandemic 
• COVID-19 in Prisons: A Crisis Obscured, but Which Cannot be Ignored 
• Public Health Funder Network Social Hour (Sponsored by Caring for Colorado Foundation)
• Philanthropy as a Bridge Toward Sustainability: Building Strategic Partnerships with City Systems 
• Community-Based and Data-Informed Outreach and Messaging Strategies to Address Vaccine Hesitancy, Misinformation, and Access Issues in New York: Promoting Equitable COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution and Uptake 
• Public Health Funder Network Business Meeting 
• Healthy Neighborhood Investments: How Public Health Can Champion Social Connectedness and Advance Health and Racial Equity Among Multi-Sector Partnerships and Community Development 

APHA 2020 PHFN Program (online) 

• Partnerships for Change: New Foundation Strategies for Violence Prevention 
• Grantmaking Foundations 101 
• Funding Research that Matters: Moving Beyond Inquiry to Action 
• Impact Investing in Credible Community Messengers: Reducing the Generational Impact of Community Violence 
• Activating Partnerships for Impact: How Philanthropy & Cross-Sector Collaboration Can Advance Mental Health and Addiction Outcomes 
• Public Health Funder Network Business Meeting 
• Building Power to Advance Health Equity: Youth Justice Reform in the California Endowment's 10-Year Building Healthy Communities Initiative 

APHA 2019 PHFN Program (Philadelphia, PA)

• The RISE Partnership: Multi-Sector Collaboration to Build Capacity for Readiness, Implementation and Sustainability for Effectiveness 
• Grantmaking Foundations 101 
• Beyond Grantmaking: Catalyzing Philanthropy and Partnerships to Improve Community Health 
• Public Health Funder Network Social Hour (Sponsored by Independence Blue Cross Foundation)
• Placed-Based Investment for Health: What Have Foundations Learned 
• From Hunger Relief to Food Sovereignty: Reimagining Funding Strategies for Community Health 
• Public Health Funder Network Business Meeting 
• Trauma-Informed Philanthropy: Moving from Knowledge to Action 

APHA 2018 PHFN Program (San Diego, CA)

• Public Health Funder Network reception (session #294) Sponsored by the Blue Shield of California Foundation
• Funding Grassroots, Community Solutions to Address Social Determinants of Health
• Public Health Funder Network business meeting 
• Centering Racial and Health Equity within Government: Lessons from Richmond, E. Salinas, Long Beach and Building Healthy Communities 
• What Funders Can Do As The Opioid Epidemic Reconfigures Health Policy And Funding 
• Exploring Challenges, Barriers and Results of Funders Collaborating to Expand Equity with Comprehensive School-based Health Services 
• Funding and Building Cross-Sector Collaboratives to Improve Children's Health 
• In Their Own Words: Community Organizers' Messages to Funders about What Works, Challenges Faced, and Relevance for Growing Health Equity Now 

APHA 2017 PHFN Program (Atlanta, GA)

• Public Health Funder Network reception (Sponsored by the Healthcare Georgia Foundation)
• Developing cross-sector leaders to advance health equity 
• Funding public health in a time of political discord 
• Using policy as a lever for improving community health practice 
• The power of aligning partners through funding and impact measurement
• Healing trauma: A funder's approach to addressing violence 
• Public Health Funder Network business meeting 
• Improving rural children's health: funders as partners and catalysts 

APHA 2016 PHFN Program (Denver, CO)

• Public Health Funder Network reception (Sponsored by the Colorado Health Foundation)
• Five years of building health communities in California: mid-initiative accomplishments, lessons and adaptations 
• Tools for designing and implementing adaptive funding strategies 
• It’s not just about checking boxes: evaluation and learning in philanthropic and pubic health practice 
• Hospital community benefit: leveraging the opportunity for change 
• Partnering with community: addressing equity and health disparities through philanthropy 
• Public Health Funder Network business meeting 
• Capacity building 3.0: building sustainable learning communities for effective public health delivery

APHA 2015 PHFN Program (Chicago, IL) 

• Public Health Funder Network reception 
• Philanthropic strategies to advance health in all policies
• Philanthropy’s role in measuring progress toward health improvement goals 
• The dual role of foundations and grantees in catalyzing change through advocacy 
• Taking collective action: engaging people, place and systems to improve health 
• Public Health Funder Network business meeting 

APHA 2014 PHFN Program (New Orleans, LA) 

• Philanthropy’s role in advocacy and policy change
• The ACA and philanthropy: strategies to support implementation 
• The next transformation in American healthcare: aligning health and healthcare

APHA 2013 PHFN Program (Boston, MA) 

• Achieving collective public health impact: building bridges between funders and community coalitions 

2012

• PHFN founded by APHA members based in Chicago, IL