RWJF Leader's Link-January/February

January/February 2009
Programs' Progress

Record Number of Applicants for the Foundation Focus

Health Policy Fellows Program

With a new Congress and administration I am delighted to present the inaugural edition of the RWJF Leaders’ Link e-

in place, applicants for the Robert Wood newsletter. For those of you who have been receiving the Scholars

Johnson Health Policy Fellows Program Communications Link, this new e-publication will take its place. Each of you is

are ready to be part of the change. essential to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s mission of helping Americans

When the 2009–2010 call for live healthier lives. As a grantee, scholar, fellow, leader or investigator, you are a

applications closed on November 14, vital resource for your field and your community. As a group, you’re catalyzing

2008, the program staff counted the changes in health care for an increasingly diverse population.

most applicants they had received in the

I hope the Leaders’ Link provides a convenient way for you to learn about and
program’s 40-year history—doubling
access each other’s knowledge and skill. By joining your expertise with that of
their previous record.
others in these programs, you can create a resource that serves the public and

Read More Program News » furthers your own professional goals.

To that end, you’ll also want to share your published research or health initiative
● Clinical Scholars Program Issues Call with a wide audience. Help us help you reach this goal: e-mail your request and
for Applications your study to humancapital@iqsolutions.com, 30 to 60 days prior to publication or

● Plentiful Nominations for Community kickoff. We can provide tips that may help generate media interest in your work.

Health Leaders For a start, see the "Communication Corner" in this issue.

● New Deputy Director for the

Linda Wright Moore
Executive Nurse Fellows Program Senior Communications Officer

● Health & Society Scholars Program Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

Concludes Cohort Selection

Research Roundup
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● Innovative Applicants Wanted for

Investigator Awards in Health Policy Health & Society Scholars

Research
A paper by Sheryl Magzamen, Ph.D., M.P.H., “Kickin’ Asthma: School-Based
● First Cohorts Ready to Climb the
Asthma Education in an Urban Community,” was published in the December 2008
Ladder to Leadership
issue of the Journal of School Health. The paper found that a school-based asthma

curriculum designed specifically for urban students has been shown to reduce

symptoms, activity limitations, and health care utilization for intervention

Inside Intelligence
participants. News stories on the study appeared in the Washington Post, Forbes.
Want to stay current with national news
com and FoxNews.com, among others.
coverage of health reform, health

insurance, vulnerable populations, Read More Research News »

public health, and other subjects?

Subscribe to the “RWJF Daily Media ● Clinical Scholars

Clips” listserv, and the latest health

● Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program
news will be delivered to your inbox.
● Physician Faculty Scholars
Sign up here.

Achievements & Accolades

Communication Corner
RWJF Year in Research Features Human Capital Scholars and
What Makes News? How To
Translate Your Project Into “Media-
Investigators
Speak”

Your study is about to be published in a
medical journal, or your initiative
unveiled to the public. You want to
garner media attention and reach
important stakeholders. Below are
some tips to help frame your work in
terms that help the media appreciate its
significance:
The voters have spoken. Among the list of the 10 most influential RWJF-funded
research articles of 2008—as determined by more than 1,400 ballots cast—half
are from scholars or investigators in the Human Capital Portfolio. The list, the
RWJF Year in Research, is compiled annually by David C. Colby, Ph.D., vice
president for research and evaluation. This year, voting was opened for the first
time to RWJF Web site visitors, Twitter users and e-mail subscribers, who chose
the 10 articles from a list of 25 nominees.
The winning studies they cited address a range of pressing health concerns facing

● See if you can connect your work to a Americans, their health care providers and developers of health policy. Five were

topic already in the news. For authored or co-authored by members of the Human Capital Portfolio. Continued»

example, if you direct a local health

Read More Achievements & Accolades »

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clinic servicing an underserved

community, your efforts might be tied

● Clinical Scholars
to national trend stories on the need
● Community Health Leaders
to reduce health care costs, or to
● Executive Nurse Fellows
provide medical care for the

underserved. Or perhaps you can ● Health & Society Scholars

peg your story to a regional or

● Health Policy Fellows
statewide issue.
● Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research

● Physician Faculty Scholars

Read More Communication Corner»

● Scholars in Health Policy Research

Do you want to promote your

research? Contact

humancapital@iqsolutions.com

or (240) 221-4055

Do you have a story to tell or

information to share?

Contact Us

Please submit your items for the next

RWJF Leaders’ Link by March 12, 2009.

RWJF Leaders Link highlights these Annual Meetings and Seminars

Human Capital programs:

● Executive Nurse Fellows, Reston, Va., Apr 1-5

● Clinical Scholars ● Nurse Faculty Scholars, San Francisco, Calif., Mar 9-11

● Community Health Leaders ● Health & Society Scholars, San Diego, Calif., May 11-14

● Executive Nurse Fellows ● Scholars in Health Policy Research, Aspen, Colo.,

● Harold Amos Medical Faculty May 27-30

Development ● Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development, TBD,

● Health & Society Scholars Oct 7-9

● Health Policy Fellows ● Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research, San

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● Investigator Awards in Health Policy Diego, Calif., Oct 7-10

Research ● Health Policy Fellows, Washington, D.C., Oct 13

● Ladder to Leadership ● Clinical Scholars, San Diego, Calif., Nov 3-6

● Nurse Faculty Scholars ● Nurse Faculty Scholars, TBD, Dec 1-3

● Physician Faculty Scholars ● Physician Faculty Scholars, San Diego, Calif., Dec 7-10

● Scholars in Health Policy Research

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