Alliance for Health Reform
$176,400
2003 Health Policy Seminars and Congressional Staff Retreat
In the coming year, the Alliance will conduct seven briefings and roundtables and host a retreat for senior congressional staff. Possible briefing and retreat topics include: Medicare reform, a Medicare prescription drug benefit, health care access for the uninsured, employer-based health coverage, tax credits for the purchase of insurance, health care inflation, and health care quality initiatives.

Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government
$450,000
Commonwealth Fund/John F. Kennedy School of Government Bipartisan Congressional Retreat, 2004
The annual bipartisan congressional retreats sponsored by The Commonwealth Fund and the John F. Kennedy School of Government have provided valuable opportunities for fruitful interactions between key House and Senate members and leading experts in health policy and health care. The sixth retreat will again help convey timely information, including findings from Fund-supported analyses, on important health issues likely to be taken up by Congress.

Project HOPE/The People-to-People Health Foundation
$99,600
A Strategic Web Publishing Partnership with Health Affairs
This grant will provide support to Health Affairs to achieve the goal of doubling its Web publishing capacity, thus expanding the number of available slots for articles by Fund grantees, staff, and other researchers in the health policy sphere. The grant will also support Health Affairs' efforts to promote aggressively its Web exclusives to the media, help to improve its website search capability, and provide the Fund with copies of a bound volume of Web exclusives to be mailed to key audiences.

Association of Health Care Journalists
$25,000
2003 AHCJ National Conference

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
$30,000
5 Half-Hour TV Interview Programs on Health Care in America