10 U.S. states
Support mortality review modernization in at least ten states.
Partnership
Build the Infrastructure. Expand the Possibility.
Philanthropic partnership can ensure that mortality evidence becomes action — transforming evidence into reform, reform into policy, and policy into lives saved.
Five-year planning targets
A Vision We Can Build Together.
The Center’s proposed five-year vision establishes clear ambitions for domestic and global reform. These are targets for the Center’s development.
5 international governments
Assist five international governments in medicolegal and mortality reform.
5 peer-reviewed articles
Build an applied evidence base for translational mortality science.
Annual Mortality Policy Index
Create a recurring national resource linking mortality patterns to policy action.
10+ policy actions
Influence or draft at least ten pieces of legislation or major policy reforms.
$6–8M annual research portfolio
Develop a sustainable annual research portfolio that expands impact and reach.
National leadership
Death in Custody Reform
Become a leading authority on Death in Custody reform and mortality-driven systems change.
Proposed yearly operating budget
$1.2 millionCore capacity to launch and scale an academic center.
Flexible Capacity.
Independent Evidence.
The proposed annual budget supports personnel, technology and data infrastructure, research and study design, national and international engagement, programming, policy convenings, communications, and partnership development.
Flexible philanthropic support can help the Center respond to emerging mortality patterns, pilot new review models, support vulnerable populations, and convene multidisciplinary leaders without the delays that often constrain public systems.
Three pathways to partnership
Support That Reflects Your Purpose.
General Operating Support
Core leadership and staff; analytic and data infrastructure; research administration; communications; convening; partnership development; and rapid-response capacity.
Programmatic Support
Mortality review modernization; the National Mortality Data & Analytics Lab; policy translation; forensic case review; Death Equity Studies; education and mentorship; The Record; global meetings; and the Mortality, Law, and Policy Summit.
Explore Each PriorityLegacy Opportunities
Potential opportunities may include:
- Endowed leadership
- Mortality Policy Institute
- Death Equity Research Program
- Global Medicolegal Death Investigation Initiative
- Annual Mortality, Law, and Policy Summit
- Fellowship support
What partnership makes possible
Capacity That Lasts
Beyond a Single Project.
Independent analytics
Identify emerging mortality patterns and support rapid public-health response.
Scalable review systems
Connect domestic and global case findings to prevention, accountability, and policy reform.
A multidisciplinary workforce
Train physicians, public health professionals, lawyers, researchers, and forensic leaders.
A durable public platform
Extend impact through publications, convenings, policy translation, and community-facing education.
Start a conversation
Your Partnership
Can Protect Life.
Connect with Meharry Institutional Advancement to discuss philanthropic support and opportunities to help build the Center.
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