Aligning Forces for Quality: The Regional Market Project
To accelerate improvements in care at the community level by cultivating and aligning market forces with quality improvement efforts.

Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care
To undertake a hospital quality improvement collaborative to improve cardiac care for African Americans and Latinos.

Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change
To test hypothetical solutions for reducing racial and ethnic disparities in health care settings and actual disparity reduction outcomes in ongoing programs.

Transforming Care at the Bedside®
To create, test and spread prototype hospital nursing unit-level strategies to improve the work environment and quality of care.

A Matter of Degree: Reducing High-Risk Drinking Among College Students
Program to develop model approaches to reduce student high-risk drinking on campus and in the surrounding community by developing college/community partnerships.

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.

Active Living Resource Center
To provide technical assistance to create active communities.

Active Living by Design
To increase physical activity through community design, public policies and communications strategies.

Active for Life: Increasing Physical Activity Levels in Adults Age 50 and Older®
To increase the number of American adults age 50 and older who engage in regular physical activity.

Addressing Tobacco in Health Care
Initiative intended to integrate effective tobacco treatment as part of basic health care.

Advancing Diabetes Self-Management
Program to expand and test multicomponent self-management programs that could be delivered in primary care settings and improve outcomes and cost-effectiveness.

Advancing Recovery: State/Provider Partnerships for Quality Addiction Care
To support partnerships between treatment provider organizations that deliver care and states.

Allies Against Asthma: A Program to Combine Clinical and Public Health Approaches to Chronic Illness
To support community-based coalitions aimed at improving efforts to control pediatric asthma.

Better Jobs, Better Care: Building a Strong Long-Term Care Workforce
To create changes in policy and practice that will lead to recruitment and retention of high-quality direct care workers in nursing homes and in home- and community-based settings.

Bridging the Gap: Research Informing Practice and Policy for Healthy Youth Behavior
Program to improve the understanding of the role of policy and environmental factors in youth alcohol, illicit drug, and tobacco use, as well as diet and physical activity, to evaluate their effectiveness in reducing substance use and obesity among youth.

Building Community Supports for Diabetes Care
To support partnerships among local health care providers and community organizations to address diabetes prevention and self-management issues in communities where cultural and ethnic diversity influence related health behaviors.

Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth
To establish school-connected mental health services for students, with emphasis on overcoming cultural and language barriers of children in immigrant and refugee families.

Cash & Counseling
To expand a proven model of consumer-directed supportive services to more states, allowing thousands more older adults and people with disabilities to have choice and control over the care they receive.

Center to Advance Palliative Care
Initiative to increase the number of hospitals that have the capability to provide quality palliative care; create sufficient momentum that hospital-based palliative care becomes a standard practice in comprehensive patient care; and provide leadership in the development of standards for palliative care programs.

Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization
To support policy analysis, research, evaluation and demonstration projects that will provide public and private decision leaders with useful and timely information on health care policy and financing 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.

Coming Home: Affordable Assisted Living®
Program to provide grant support, technical assistance, and loan funds to states to create affordable models of assisted living targeted to low-income seniors and linked with existing community health care systems.

Common Ground: Transforming Public Health Information Systems
To support collaborative processes among state and local public health departments to advance the use of information systems to support preparedness and chronic disease.

Community Partnerships for Older Adults
To foster the efforts of local public-private partnerships to improve long-term care and supportive services systems for older adults.

Community-Based Childhood Obesity Prevention Within the Injury Free Coalition for Kids Initiative Sites
Building on the Injury Free Coalition for Kids initiative, selected sites will add healthy eating environments and programs into their ongoing focus on physical activity and developing safe play areas.

Consumer Voices for Coverage: Strengthening State Advocacy Networks to Expand Health Coverage
To support state-based consumer health advocacy networks to increase their capacity to participate with key stakeholders, such as businesses, hospitals, insurers, providers and government officials, in health care reform efforts.

Covering Kids and Families®
To increase the number of eligible children and adults who benefit from federal and state health care coverage programs.

Depression in Primary Care: Linking Clinical and System Strategies
Program designed to increase the use of effective treatment models in primary care settings for patients with depression.

Faith in Action®
To expand the continued replication of the Interfaith Volunteer Caregivers Model, providing volunteer caregiving to people of all ages with chronic health conditions.

Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program
To strengthen the presence of generalist physician faculty in the nation's medical schools through career development awards to outstanding junior faculty in medical school departments/divisions of family medicine, general internal medicine and general pediatrics.

Hablamos Juntos: Improving Patient-Provider Communication for Latinos
To improve access to quality health care for Latinos with limited English proficiency through the use of cost-effective interpretation and translation services.

Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program
To provide four-year postdoctoral research awards to physicians from historically underrepresented groups who are committed to developing careers in academic medicine, to improving the health of underserved populations, and to furthering understanding and elimination of 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 Tracking
To track and report on changes in the U.S. health care system and how they affect Americans' health.

Health e-Technologies: Building the Science of eHealth
To support systematic research in the evaluation of interactive eHealth applications for health behavior change and chronic disease management.

Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity
To support investigator-initiated research to identify and assess environmental and policy influences with the greatest potential to improve healthy eating and weight patterns among the nation's children.

Healthy Eating by Design
Program to support efforts of schools and communities to increase access to healthy, lower calorie foods through policy and environmental change in order to prevent obesity among children living in low income, culturally diverse neighborhoods and communities.

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.

Helping Young Smokers Quit: Identifying Best Practices for Tobacco Cessation
To evaluate and disseminate effective, developmentally appropriate cessation treatment programs for adolescents who smoke and try unsuccessfully to quit.

Improving Chronic Illness Care
Program to help health care organizations redesign care to improve the clinical and functional outcomes of patients with chronic illness.

InformationLinks: Connecting Public Health with Health Information Exchanges
To provide funds to state and local health departments to support and encourage their participation in regional health information networks.

Injury Free Coalition for Kids: Dissemination of a Model Injury Prevention Program for Children and Adolescents
To reduce and prevent injuries to children through a hospital-based, research-driven model implemented in partnership with coalitions of community stakeholders.

Innovators Combating Substance Abuse
To highlight substance abuse as a leading health problem by recognizing those who are striving to bring creative solutions to the field.

Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative
To support interdisciplinary studies that address critical knowledge gaps about nursing quality and for the synthesis, translation and dissemination of results to key stakeholders.

Intergenerational Programming within the Active for Life Program Sites to Reduce Childhood Obesity
Program to support efforts of senior service organizations to increase access to healthy, lower- calorie foods and opportunities for safe, daily physical activity through policy and environmental change among children living in low-income, culturally diverse neighborhoods and communities.

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 frontline health and health care workers to improve the quality of care and ensure the quality of services provided to patients and communities.

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.

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.

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.

New Connections: Increasing Diverse Perspectives to RWJF Programming
To bring new perspectives to RWJF grantmaking by supporting researchers from historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities to conduct secondary analysis on existing data sets and to help RWJF address specific research questions.

New Health Partnerships: Improving Care by Engaging Patients
To support pilot testing of innovations to overcome barriers to patients managing their chronic conditions, including an online collaborative, a virtual learning community for providers, and a virtual learning community for patients and families.

New Jersey Health Initiatives
To support innovative community-based projects that address one or more of the Foundation's interest areas in health and health care.

New Routes to Community Health
To employ the Sound Partners model of community collaboration to help new immigrants in up to 10 communities around the United States address challenges by using the power of local media.

Obesity Prevention in Children: Synergy with Diabetes Initiative
Program to support efforts of schools and communities to increase access to healthy, lower-calorie foods and opportunities for safe, daily physical activity through policy and environmental change in order to prevent obesity among children living in low-income, culturally diverse neighborhoods and communities.

Partners Investing in Nursing's Future
To provide support, in partnership with local foundations, to address important local- and state-level nursing issues.

Partnerships for Quality Education
Program to train primary care residents and nurse practitioners to deliver high-quality care for patients with chronic illnesses within the fixed-budget constraints of managed care.

Paths to Recovery: Changing the Process of Care for Substance Abuse Programs®
To strengthen the addiction treatment system's ability to successfully use process improvement techniques toward increasing patients' access to and retention in addiction treatment programs.

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.

Prescription for Health: Promoting Healthy Behaviors in Primary Care Research Networks
To develop, field test and disseminate innovative and feasible interventions for primary care-based health behavior change counseling, in collaboration with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

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 Informatics Fellows Training Program
To use fellowship training in public health informatics as a strategy to catalyze the development of the field and create a sustainable pipeline of future leaders in public health informatics.

Public Health Systems Research
To help establish the field of public health systems research as a needed resource that will improve performance of governmental health agencies.

Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance®
Program to help hospital and physician organizations dramatically improve patient outcomes by pursuing perfection in all of their major care processes.

Reclaiming Futures: Communities Helping Teens Overcome Drugs, Alcohol and Crime®
To develop new 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.

Regional Quality Strategy
To support grants and technical assistance to community coalitions to work toward high-quality, patient-centered and equitable care.

Research Network on the Etiology of Tobacco Dependence
Program to bring together leading researchers from a variety of perspectives and disciplines to work collaboratively in the study of the etiology of tobacco dependence in an effort to increase understanding of the development of tobacco dependence.

Rewarding Results: Aligning Incentives with High-Quality Health Care
To invent, prove and diffuse innovations in systems of provider payments and nonfinancial incentives that will encourage and reward high-quality care.

Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellows Program
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 Clinical Scholars Program®
To augment clinical training 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 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, evaluate and disseminate knowledge and best practices.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows Program
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 Local Funding Partnerships
To continue a matching grants program to establish partnerships between RWJF and local grantmakers in support of innovative, community-based projects that improve health and health care for vulnerable populations.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars
To increase the stature and academic standing of nursing 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 nursing 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.

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.

Smoke-Free Families: Innovations to Stop Smoking During and Beyond Pregnancy
To reduce rates of smoking in families by supporting research to develop and evaluate effective new interventions to help women quit smoking before, during and after pregnancy.

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.

Southern Rural Access Program
Program to increase access to health care services in eight rural underserved states.

Speaking Together: National Language Services Network
To support hospitals in improving the quality and availability of health care language services for patients with limited English proficiency.

State Action for Oral Health Access
Program to test innovative, comprehensive state approaches to improving access to oral health services for low-income, minority and disabled populations.

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 leadership capacity of state health officers as policy-makers, administrators and advocates for the health of the public.

State Solutions: An Initiative to Improve Enrollment in Medicare Savings Programs
Program to maximize enrollment in Medicaid, Qualified Medicare Beneficiary, Selected Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary, and Qualified Individual programs.

Substance Abuse Policy Research Program
To encourage experts in public health, law, political science, medicine, sociology, criminal justice, economics, psychology, and other behavioral and policy sciences to address issues of substance abuse.

Summer Medical and Dental Education Program
To develop and implement a six-week academic enrichment program for undergraduate college students from minority groups, rural areas and economically disadvantaged backgrounds who are interested in pursuing careers in medicine or dentistry.

Tobacco Policy Change: A Collaborative for Healthier Communities and States
To provide resources and technical assistance for community, regional and national organizations and tribal groups advocating for effective tobacco prevention and cessation policy initiatives.

Urgent Matters
Program to support the development and implementation of best practices to relieve emergency department overcrowding, and help communities understand the interdependence between the health care safety net and the rest of the delivery system.

Wisdom at Work: Retaining Experienced Nurses®
To build an evidence base for what works to retain experienced nurses and develop better understanding of the impact of such interventions.