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as never before. 2. Improve the quality, value and equality of health care. RWJF
market. By 2016 these organizations will providers pay for and deliver care—rewarding value instead of volume.
need approximately 80,000 new senior 3. Bring down spending. Through our Aligning Forces for Quality
managers a year. Where will these
initiative, RWJF is asking communities across the country to take some
nonprofit leaders come from? And how
initial steps toward increasing the availability of information on health
will they acquire the skills to succeed?
care quality, including its cost.
A partnership between the Robert Wood
4. Prevent disease and promote healthier lifestyles. A 2008 report
Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and the
funded by the Foundation found that an investment of $10 per person
Center for Creative Leadership (CCL®)
per year in proven community-based programs to increase physical
million grant to CCL to design Ladder to 5. Strengthen public health. Since 2003, RWJF has funded the annual
Leadership: Developing the Next report, Ready or Not? Protecting the Public's Health from Diseases,
Generation of Community Health Disasters, and Bioterrorism. It contains state-by-state scores based on
Leaders, a national fellowship program 10 key indicators that assess health emergency preparedness.
that, over four years and in nine U.S.
6. Address social determinants of health. Through a series of hearings,
communities, will develop nearly 300
on-site visits and research, the new Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
emerging leaders in health-related
Commission to Build a Healthier America will investigate how factors
nonprofits. Continued >>
such as education, environment, income and housing affect personal
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Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, Ph.D., M.D.'s study, Racial Differences in Incident Heart
Failure Among Young Adults, was published as the lead article in the March 19,
Communication Corner 2009 New England Journal of Medicine. It finds that heart failure–a disabling and
often deadly form of heart disease–is hitting African Americans in their thirties and
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for Media Promotion forties at the same rate as Caucasians in their fifties and sixties. One in 100
research connect with RWJF's goal of Clinical Scholars Anish Mahajan, M.D., Chisaraokwu Asomugha, M.D., M.P.H.,
health reform? and Rebekah Gee, M.D., M.P.H., have been selected among the 108 regional
finalists for the White House Fellows program. White House Fellows typically
Read More Communication Corner» spend a year working as full-time, paid special assistants to senior White House
Staff, the Vice President, Cabinet Secretaries and other top-ranking government
officials.
2009, to humancapital@iqsolutions.com.
● Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars ● Health & Society Scholars, San Diego, Calif., May 11–14
● Health & Society Scholars® ● Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development, TBD, Oct.
● Investigator Awards in Health Policy ● Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research, San
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