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September 29, 2008 | Commentary/Story
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., RWJF president and CEO, released this commentary following the latest WHO report, Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health.
September 10, 2008
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, delivered the keynote speech to the fifth joint conference of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials (ASTHO) and the National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO).
April 1, 2008 | Annual Report
In the President's Message of the RWJF 2007 annual report, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey focuses on quality improvement, and outlines the Foundation's efforts in specific regions across the country through the Aligning Forces for Quality initiative.
February 27, 2008 | Video/Story
The nonpartisan commission will investigate how factors such as education, environment, income and housing shape and affect personal behavioral choices. The United States spends more on health than any other nation. Yet, the U.S. ranks at or near th ...
December 6, 2007 | News Release
RWJF and the AARP Foundation host briefing at the National Press Club to provide details on the Center to Champion Nursing in America.
October 30, 2007 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Yesterday, I had the pleasure to publicly announce Pioneer’s largest grant to date: a $15.6 million award that will enable Dr. David Eddy and his team at Archimedes, Inc. to build ARCHeS, a powerful Web-based interface and delivery system that will ...
April 28, 2007 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
As I write this post, I'm about to travel to the Council on Foundations (COF) annual meeting in Seattle. This year, RWJF is helping to lead an exploration of the role of philanthropy in improving public health. This is one of the four big societal c ...
April 1, 2007 | Annual Report
President's Message from the 2006 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Annual Report.
January 23, 2007 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
What will be the next disruptive innovations in health care? This is a question I find fascinating to contemplate. Harvard professor Clayton Christensen broke new ground when he defined this concept, and in a recent (December, 2006) Harvard Busines ...
January 11, 2007 | Commentary/Story
Philadelphia is finally getting a breath of fresh air. However, in a guest column in The Philadelphia Inquirer, RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., says much more needs to be done to reduce tobacco's toll in the city and throughout Pennsylvania.