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2004 Annual Report President's Message: Holding the Needle on True North

April 1, 2005 | Annual Report

In the President's Message of the RWJF 2004 annual report, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey describes being on the front lines of patient care at a community health clinic in New Brunswick, N.J., a clinic that provides health care for thousands of the area's most vulnerable, low-income or uninsured families.

Making Health Care Work for American Families

March 24, 2009 | Presentation Material

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey's testimony before the Committee on Health of the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the U.S. House of Representatives on the importance of improving access to care for America's families.

Better Health for All Americans

August 23, 2011 | Commentary

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey delivers keynote at the Martin Luther King, Jr., Health Equity Summit.

Statement on IOM Report on Consequences of Not Having Health Insurance

February 23, 2009 | News Release/Story

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, comments on the Foundation-supported report.

Center to Champion Nursing in America

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.

A Focused Remedy is Best Cure for Health Care Crisis

January 8, 2009 | Commentary/Story

As Washington turn its eye toward health care reform, RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., and Vernice Davis Anthony, president and CEO of the Greater Detroit Area Health Council, urge policy-makers to focus on what it means to "fix" health care and ask the hard questions about how medical care is delivered in this commentary published in the Detroit Free Press.

Improving the Quality of Health Care

May 16, 2005 | Commentary/Story

RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, M.D., M.B.A., outlined the Foundation's approach to reducing disparities using quality improvement approaches already familiar to the health care field.

Doctors Need a Say on Health Insurance

September 22, 2009 | Story

A majority backs both public and private programs.

New Census Bureau Estimate of 46.3 Million Uninsured Attests to Growing Problem

September 10, 2009 | News Release/Story

The number of Americans who don’t have health insurance coverage is large and that it’s growing over time.

Why is U.S. Health Care So Costly?

July 26, 2009 | Story

Risa Lavizzo-Mourey critiques the idea that more care is better care.

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