Below is an alphabetical list of all current national programs and resources of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Aligning Forces for Quality: The Regional Market Project®
To support grants and technical assistance to community coalitions to work toward high-quality, patient-centered, and equitable care.
Dartmouth Atlas Project
To support continued management, expansion and analyses of the Dartmouth Atlas data infrastructure.
Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education
To identify, evaluate, and disseminate innovative strategies to increase the teaching capacity of nursing schools, as well as to promote the recruitment and retention of nurse faculty, with the long-term goal of educating more students.
Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change
To seek and evaluate promising interventions in health care settings to reduce racial and ethnic disparities, with an increased focus on disseminating results from the first rounds of grants and sharing lessons learned with the communities working under the Aligning Forces for Quality initiative.
Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program
To provide four-year awards for postdoctoral research to physicians and dentists from historically underrepresented groups who are committed to developing careers in academic medicine and dentistry, improving the health of underserved populations, furthering understanding, and eliminating health disparities.
Health Games Research: Advancing effectiveness of interactive games for health
To build the field and advance knowledge about the intersection of video/computer games and health and health care through a national program that emphasizes applied research and convening.
Health Policy Partnerships in Diversity
To increase the diversity of those with formal training in the fields of economics, political science and sociology who engage in health services and health policy research.
Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative
To support interdisciplinary studies that address critical knowledge gaps regarding causal linkages between nursing and health care quality and to synthesize, translate, and disseminate major findings to key stakeholders.
Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research
To encourage researchers whose crosscutting and innovative ideas promise to contribute meaningfully to improving U.S. health and health care policy.
Jobs to Careers: Promoting Work-Based Learning for Quality Care
To establish systems that train, develop, reward and advance current front-line health and health care workers to improve the quality of care and ensure the quality of services provided to patients and communities.
Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Community Health Leaders
To develop a cadre of future health leaders from community-based nonprofit organizations serving vulnerable people.
Lead States in Public Health Quality Improvement
To create a peer network of innovator states with experience in designing and implementing a process for systematic assessment of local public health agency capacity and performance.
Medicaid Managed Care Program
Program to improve the quality of and access to Medicaid managed care by working with states, health plans, and consumer groups.
National Demonstration of Early Detection, Intervention and Prevention of Psychosis in Adolescents and Young Adults
To replicate the Portland Identification and Early Referral (PIER) Program that uses evidence-based psychosocial and pharmacologic interventions in the early identification and treatment of adolescents and young adults with severe mental illness.
National Expansion of Playworks: A Program that Promotes Physical Activity and Play at Schools -- 2008-2012
To support the second phase of a national expansion of Playworks, an innovative program that uses play to promote physical activity and youth development in schools.
New Jersey Nursing Initiative: So a Nurse Will Be There for You
To address the New Jersey nurse faculty shortage by developing, implementing and evaluating a statewide model for recruitment and retention of nurse faculty.
Partners Investing in Nursing's Future
To support the capacity, involvement and leadership of local foundations and community partners in implementing localized nursing shortage solutions to serve as templates for communities facing similar issues nationwide.
Pipeline, Profession and Practice: Community-Based Dental Education
To assist dental schools in: (1) increasing access to dental care for underserved populations and (2) recruiting and training more low-income and minority students.
Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records
To expand a vision of personal health records and encourage the market to develop products that meet the diverse needs of patients.
Public Health Services and Systems Research
To help establish the field of public health services and systems research as a needed resource that will improve performance of governmental health agencies.
Reclaiming Futures: Communities Helping Teens Overcome Drugs, Alcohol and Crime®
To develop service-delivery models that integrate comprehensive services into the juvenile justice system and promote the creation of community-based systems of care for substance-abusing youthful offenders.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at Meharry
To increase the number and diversity of Ph.D. graduates with formal training in the fields of sociology and economics who engage in health services and health policy research.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program®
To augment clinical training of physicians by providing new skills and perspectives necessary to achieving leadership positions within and outside academia.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders
To provide recognition for the contributions community health leaders make to achieving RWJF's mission and goals, and to enhance their capacity to have more permanent and widespread impact on health problems.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows
To provide advanced leadership opportunities for nurses in senior executive roles in health services, public health and nursing education who aspire to lead and shape the U.S. health care system of the future.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars
To build the field of population health by training scholars to investigate the connections among biological, behavioral, environmental, economic and social determinants of health and develop policies to improve population health.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows
To allow midcareer health professionals and behavioral and social scientists to participate in a one-year residency in Washington, D.C., working for Congress on health policy issues.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing
To facilitate implementation of recommendations made by the RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing Committee and reinforce the central role of nurses in providing quality care in a transformed health system.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Careers in Nursing
To address the nursing shortage by funding scholarships for accelerated bachelor's and master's degrees in nursing, with preference given to schools that increase the number of students in these programs or increase enrollment and retention of disadvantaged or minority students.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars
To increase the stature and academic standing of nurse faculty and draw more nurses to teaching careers by creating a cadre of national leaders in academic nursing through career-development awards to outstanding junior nurse faculty.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Faculty Scholars
To strengthen the leadership and academic productivity of junior medical school faculty who are dedicated to improving health and health care.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research
To help develop a new generation of creative thinkers in health policy research within the disciplines of economics, political science and sociology.
Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships
To fund a national effort to develop and implement effective strategies to prevent relationship violence among youth.
Summer Medical and Dental Education Program
To develop and implement a six-week academic enrichment program for undergraduates from minority groups, rural areas, and economically disadvantaged backgrounds who are interested in pursuing careers in medicine or dentistry.
Active Living Research
To stimulate and support research to identify environmental factors and policies that influence physical activity, especially among children and families in low-income communities.
Bridging the Gap: Research Informing Practice and Policy for Healthy Youth Behavior
To improve understanding of school, community, state and national policies and environmental factors affecting youth diet, physical activity, obesity, and tobacco, alcohol and drug use, and to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to prevent youth obesity and tobacco use.
Building Advocacy for Policy Change to Improve the Nation's Health
To develop and advance policy recommendations for how a modernized public health system should be structured, funded, staffed and held accountable.
Building the Evidence Base for Public Health Accreditation and Quality Improvement
To advance understanding and evidence of the relationship between accreditation and other quality improvement efforts in public health and the performance and impact of the public health system.
Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization
To support policy analysis, research, and projects that will provide public and private decision leaders with useful and timely information on health care policy, financing, and organization issues.
Children's Futures: Improving Health and Development Outcomes for Children in Trenton, N.J.
To employ a comprehensive set of interventions to improve the health of children in Trenton, New Jersey.
Communities Creating Healthy Environments: Improving Access to Healthy Foods and Safe Places to Play in Communities of Color
To build state and national momentum to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity through strategic investment in those communities most affected.
Consumer Voices for Coverage: Strengthening State Advocacy Networks to Expand Health Coverage®
To support state-based consumer-advocacy networks to increase their capacity to participate with key stakeholders, such as businesses, hospitals, insurers, providers, and government officials, in health reform implementation.
Convergence Partnership for Healthy Eating and Active Living
To unite funding partners in a collaborative effort to accelerate and support policy and environmental changes to improve the health of people and places.
County Health Roadmaps
To help communities translate the County Health Rankings into multisector action that addresses the social, economic, environmental, and behavioral factors that affect health.
Creating resources for data gathering and study to strengthen the evidence base, performance and impact of federal, state and local public health
To help develop priorities for public health research; create a center for data resources and technical assistance; and support data analyses to assist national public health organizations and assess the performance and impact of public health systems.
Developing a Program to Improve Cooperation Among Federal, State and Local Leaders When Responding to Natural and Man-Made Disasters
To prepare senior leaders across multiple sectors to work effectively and collaboratively in the event of a national public health emergency.
Establishing a National Public Health Accrediting Organization
To establish a new, independent, nonprofit entity to govern the national accreditation system.
Evaluating Quality Improvement Training Programs
To increase the understanding of what works in quality improvement training (QIT) programs in an effort to increase the likelihood more organizations adopt best practices and more health providers acquire QIT.
Health Impact Assessment Portfolio
To engage policy-makers, public health practitioners, health advocacy groups, researchers and other stakeholders in promoting the implementation of health impact assessments in policy decision-making.
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity
To support and disseminate focused investigator-initiated research and policy analysis to identify effective policy and environmental strategies for reversing the rise in childhood obesity by 2015, especially in populations and communities at greatest risk.
Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities: Supporting Community Action to Prevent Childhood Obesity
To catalyze and support policy and environmental change projects to promote children's physical activity and healthy eating, especially in lower-income and racial/ethnic communities at greatest risk.
Improving the Science of Continuous Quality Improvement Program and Evaluation
To improve our ability to understand the potential of continuous quality improvement processes which can result in sustainable grantee improvement.
Information for Action: School Policies to Prevent Childhood Obesity
To evaluate the effectiveness of school-based initiatives in preventing childhood obesity.
Leadership for Healthy Communities: Advancing Policies to Support Healthy Eating and Active Living
To work with elected and appointed officials to create and promote healthier communities.
Maximizing Enrollment: Transforming State Health Coverage
To increase health insurance coverage of eligible but uninsured children in Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program by helping states improve their policies and procedures and to measure the impact of these changes.
Medicaid Leadership Institute
To develop a leadership program for Medicaid directors designed to cultivate the skills necessary to resolve health care challenges facing states and the nation.
National Policy and Legal Analysis Network to Prevent Childhood Obesity
To support policy innovation and implementation aimed at preventing childhood obesity by empowering advocates, decision-makers, and communities with technical assistance and resources.
National Program for Public Health Research
To further the growth and impact of the field of public health services and systems research (PHSSR) by coordinating current PHSSR investments, supporting real-world applications of research, strengthening the capacity of researchers and practitioners, catalyzing the translation and application of findings into practice, increasing visibility and champions for the work, and attracting other funders to the field.
National Quality Forum
To (1) support the National Quality Forum's leadership in the field of health care quality; (2) facilitate a partnership of national health care organizations committed to acting on priority areas for improving quality; and (3) improve the measurement of health care quality.
New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming
To bring new perspectives to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) grantmaking by supporting researchers from historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities to conduct secondary analyses on existing datasets and to help RWJF address specific research questions.
New Jersey Health Initiatives
To support innovative community-based projects in New Jersey that address one or more of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's interest areas in health and health care.
New Jersey Partnership for Healthy Kids: Communities Making a Difference to Prevent Childhood Obesity
To support a four-year major initiative to seed community and state partnerships to prevent childhood obesity in New Jersey.
Pioneer Special Solicitation
To support the first special solicitation for the Pioneer team, focusing on consumer empowerment as a driving force for disruptive innovation in health and health care.
Preventing Partner Violence in Immigrant Communities: Strengthening What Works
To evaluate models for prevention of intimate partner violence in immigrant and refugee communities and build capacity in these communities for internal evaluation of best practices.
Public Health Law Research: Making the Case for Laws That Improve Health
To build the evidence for public health law and policy, and translate research findings into practical tools that policy-makers, public health practitioners, and leaders in other fields and venues can use to increase the support for and use of law to improve and protect health.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity
To develop the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity as the nation's leading resource for best policies and practices to reverse the epidemic by supporting the center's efforts to: synthesize the evidence; provide expertise and resources to organizations, policy-makers, and communities working to prevent childhood obesity; and provide leadership and coordination to fuel a national movement to reverse the epidemic by 2015.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America®
To explore the social and economic factors that affect health (e.g., poverty, education, housing) to lead to changes in national, state, and local policies, and promote private-sector initiatives that will reduce health inequities among Americans.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships
To continue a matching grants program to establish partnerships between the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and local grantmakers in support of innovative, community-based projects that improve health and health care for vulnerable populations.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Practice-Based Research Network in Public Health
To develop a public health practice-based research network to help stakeholders understand how research in public health systems can be used to improve public health performance and impact.
Salud America! The RWJF Research Network to Prevent Obesity Among Latino Children
To stimulate and support investigator-initiated research and build a field of researchers focused on preventing obesity among Latino children.
Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
A center to work with a variety of health professional organizations and institutions to increase their motivation and capability to refer smokers into treatment.
State Coverage Initiatives
To help states develop and implement policies that expand access to health insurance coverage.
State Health Access Reform Evaluation
To support research and evaluation of state health reform initiatives and develop an evidence base for future state and federal reform initiatives.
State Health Leadership Initiative
To accelerate the development of the leadership capacity of state and territorial health officers as policy-makers, administrators and advocates for the health of the public.
Statewide Evaluations of Childhood Obesity Prevention Policies
To build the evidence base to prevent childhood obesity by evaluating state-level policies that might affect children's access to healthy foods and opportunities for physical activity.
Supporting Advocacy to Reduce Tobacco Use and Direct Tobacco-Related State Revenue to Health Priorities
To support advocacy to reduce tobacco use and direct tobacco-related state revenue to health priorities.
Targeted Quality Solicitation on Equity and Patient-Centeredness
To identify and support projects that will expand the Foundation's understanding of equity and patient-centeredness and their role in promoting quality.
Targeted Solicitation on Quality Improvement and Performance Measurement
To support two Quality/Equality batched solicitations that will help guide the work of the communities engaged in the regional quality efforts as it pertains to making care more patient-centered and reducing racial and ethnic care disparities.
Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) Program: A National Effort to Attract the Attention of Young Scholars to the Health of the Public®
To attract the best and the brightest high school students to become the public health leaders of the future.