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Programs Progress
Volume 3, Number 4 July/August 2011 Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program to Support Dental Scholars in 2012 One of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundations longest running national programs, the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program, will offer support to dental scholars starting with its 2012 application period. For more than 25 years, the program has fostered diversity among U.S. medical school faculty, and will now work to do the same among dental school faculty. Beginning with its 2012 application period, the Harold Amos program will fund one or more dentists. For four years, each dental scholar will conduct research in association with a senior faculty member located at an academic dental center noted for its training of young faculty and for pursuing lines of investigation of particular interest to the scholar. The Harold Amos dental scholars will be selected based on their academic achievement, their commitment to academic research careers, and their potential to achieve senior rank in academic dentistry. Harold Amos scholars receive an annual stipend of up to $75,000 each, complemented by a $30,000 annual grant to support research activities. The Harold Amos RWJF will focus on three priorities of the Campaign for Action that reflect the Foundations greatest strengths. We will: 1) identify and build on evidence-based practices to strengthen nurse education and training, 2) advance interprofessional collaboration, and 3) expand nursing leadership. The Foundation will also measure progress throughout the Campaign and take concrete steps to expand our successes and refine strategies as needed. Last year, an Institute of Medicine (IOM) report The Future of Nursing: Advancing Change, Leading Health provided a blueprint for transforming the nursing profession to improve health care and meet the needs of diverse populations. The Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action is an RWJF initiative in collaboration with AARP that builds on the IOM report. The Campaign envisions a nation where all Americans have access to high-quality, patient-centered care in a health care system where nurses contribute as essential partners in achieving success. One segment of the workforce that has been historically overlooked and undervalued is nurses. In order to develop a robust health care workforce, the Foundation is sharpening its focus on nursingthe largest segment of the U.S. health care workforce to help us meet the challenges facing our health care system. As you know, RWJFs Human Capital programs invest in people inspired, innovative, diverse health care workers, leaders and researchers like you who embody the powerful potential to improve the health and health care of all Americans.

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Medical Faculty Development Program will begin accepting applications for its next grant cycle starting in February 2012. As a result of the expansion, two new members from academic dentistry fields have joined the Harold Amos national advisory committee (NAC). The new NAC members are Francisco RamosGomez, D.D.S., M.S., M.P.H., professor, section of pediatric dentistry, UCLA School of Dentistry, and George W. Taylor, D.M.D., Dr.P.H., professor, University of Michigan School of Dentistry and School of Public Health. On September 1, 2011, Taylor will join the University of California, San Franciscos School of Dentistry as Leland A. and Gladys K. Barber Distinguished Professor in Dentistry and chair of the department of preventive and restorative dental sciences. Read More Programs Progress
Community Health Leaders to Accept Nominations Starting in the Fall Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program to Support Dental Scholars in 2012 Health & Society Scholars Accepting Applications Health & Society Scholars Welcomes New NAC Members

How does this affect you? If you participate in one of the Human Capital nursing programs, there are several ways to get involved:
Join your state Action Coalition to carry out the recommendations in your community and emulate the most successful strategies of other coalitions. Promote the Campaign by highlighting the connections between your program activities and the Campaigns goals. Visit www.thefutureofnursing.org to learn who is involved in leading the implementation effort and how they can help advance your efforts by discussing the Campaign at your meetings and events; stay informed about the Campaign for Action and learn how you can be part of key developments by clicking on Get Involved; and sign up for e-updates by completing the survey. Click on Sign Up for e-Updates.

The input and participation of non-nursing programs will be equally critical to the success of the Campaign for Action, especially in the realm of interprofessional collaboration. Well be facilitating cross-program dialogue to encourage collaboration and to reduce barriers to it. We invite you to jump in and start or join what we hope will become a lively and useful discussion of the issues. Please visit the Human Capital Grantee Network or lend your voice to the Human Capital blog. A guiding principle of Human Capital is that in working together, we can accomplish truly remarkable things. And the Campaign for Action presents an opportunity for all of us to join forces across differences and disciplines to improve the coordination and delivery of patient care. Please visit www.thefutureofnursing.org to learn more about the Campaign and how you can get involved. Best regards, Linda Wright Moore Senior Communications Officer

Inside Intelligence
In case you missed it The monthly Human Capital Communications Collaborative webinars are posted to RWJFLeaders.org, so you can watch

Research Roundup
Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research A groundbreaking study co-authored by Amy Finkelstein, Ph.D., M.Phil., ('03) a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, found that when poor people are given

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them online any time. These webinars cover a wide range of communications topics, such as participating in media interviews, writing for editorial pages, giving effective presentations, and professionally engaging in social media. Check out these and other webinars on the sites Resources page.

medical insurance, they not only find regular doctors and see doctors more often, they also feel better, are less depressed and are better able to maintain financial stability. Scholars and pundits have long debated how government-provided health insurance affects people who otherwise would be uninsured, how it affects their access to health care, and how it affects their health and well-being. The study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research (July 2011), became possible in 2008 when a budget crisis led Oregon lawmakers to create a waiting list to select Medicaid recipients and draw names by lottery. This gave Finkelstein and her co-authors the raw data they needed for a randomized controlled design study. The findings received significant news coverage, including articles in the New York Times, NPR, and the RWJF HC Blog and HC Web site. Read More Research Roundup
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Communications Corner
Tweeting at Meetings: How to Increase Your Event's Impact via Twitter A frequent question that meeting planners face is: How can we engage those who arent able to attend? Luckily, as the use of social media grows, people who arent physically present can still reap many of the benefits of your event in real time. Dedicating a Twitter feed to your meeting extends an invitation to anyone who might benefit from what you and your meeting participants have to say. By enabling you to share key messages and updates from the event, Twitter gives remote participants and others the opportunity to get involved, and therefore to become active supporters of your program or project. Here are some best practices for leveraging the power of Twitter leading up to and during your meeting: Read More Communications Corner

Achievements & Accolades


Scholars in Health Policy Research Damon Centola, Ph.D., (06) published his study, The Spread of Behavior in an Online Social Network Experiment, in the September 3, 2010, issue of Science. The study has received the 2011 Outstanding Article Publication Award from the Mathematical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association; the award was presented at their national conference in August 2011. This is the first time that this award has been given to a project in public health. Read More Achievements & Accolades
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Annual Meetings and Seminars Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program Annual Meeting, New Orleans, La., October 46, 2011 Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research Annual Meeting, RWJF Headquarters, Princeton, N.J., October 1214, 2011 Clinical Scholars Annual Meeting, Crystal City, Va., November 811, 2011 Community Health Leaders Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Md., November 911, 2011 Physician Faculty Scholars Annual Meeting, San Diego, Calif., November 29December 2, 2011 Nurse Faculty Scholars Annual Meeting, New Orleans, La., November 30December 1, 2011 Are you using these free resources? RWJF Daily Clips service: humancapital@iqsolutions.com to sign up Media Interview Guide Media Tip Card: humancapital@iqsolutions.com for a PDF or hard copy

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