Health Policy
September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic
Browse research, insight and analysis on key issues affecting health and health care in the United States.
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Meharry Health Policy Scholars Set to Graduate
May 17, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
The RWJF Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College will graduate six scholars with certificates in health policy during Meharry Medical College’s 138th Commencement Exercise.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars
May 1, 2013 | Program Result Report
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program builds population health leaders through innovative, interdisciplinary research.
How Much Should Individuals Entering Health Professions Know About Health Policy?
September 21, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Health care providers should be educated about how the health care system has evolved and how policy levers work, RWJF Investigator Award in Health Policy Research recipient Miriam Laugesen writes.
Residents' Duty Hours: Toward an Empirical Narrative
November 22, 2012 | Journal Article
This article examines the debate around medical resident duty hours, specifically noting the discrepancy between duty-hour limits and the evidence base to support them. The authors suggest Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) grant programs a research exemption to address the issues of evaluation.
New Generation of Child Experts Trained in Advocacy, Collaborative Research
February 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
In 1999, the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry sponsored a conference on child health issues, focusing mainly on research as a tool for influencing public policy and clinical practice.
Graduate Medical Education
August 16, 2012 | Issue Brief
A debate continues over the size and scope of federal subsidies to support residency training of the nation’s physicians. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is the single ...
Center to Champion Nursing in America
August 2, 2012 | Program Result Report
The Center to Champion Nursing in America is an RWJF-AARP initiative to strengthen the nation's nursing workforce. It coordinates a national campaign to implement the Institute of Medicine's Future of Nursing report recommendations.
Nurse Researcher Bemoans End of National Survey on Nursing Workforce
July 25, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
HCB: The Forum of State Nursing Workforce Centers and the National Council of State Boards of Nursing (NCSBN) are working together to create a minimum data set (MDS) on the supply of the nurse workforce. Will that project help to compensate for the ...
Investing in Nursing Education
April 11, 2012 | Report
In health care, the debate over policies that promote nurse educational progression is still raging. This paper reviews the evidence and the experiential knowledge to date, and proposes a preliminary framework for understanding the financial trade-offs that health care employers may want to consider as they determine the costs and benefits of investing in nursing education.
Meet the RWJF Nursing and Health Policy Collaborative at the University of New Mexico
November 19, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The RWJF Nursing and Health Policy Collaborative at the University of New Mexico is preparing a new generation of diverse, PhD-prepared nurses to meet the nation’s health policy challenges.