Nurturing Body, Mind, and Spirit
August 14, 2012 | Story
Bonnie Kratzer explains the Parish Nurse program, in which volunteer parish nurses provide health education, screenings, and other services to churches and other community organizations.
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Remembering "Maggie" Mahoney, RWJF Pioneer
December 27, 2011 | Story
Mahoney, RWJF’s first vice president in our days as a national institution, and later the first woman to head a major U.S. philanthropy as president of The Commonwealth Fund, passed away on December 22, after a long illness.
APHA Session Gives Inside View on Shaping Health Policy
November 9, 2011 | Story
Five former RWJF Health Policy Fellows report on the public health and career impact of the program in a session at the 2011 APHA Annual Meeting.
Helping Children Actively Design How They Learn about Health and Wellness
October 4, 2011 | Program Result
The Institute of Play created Being Me, a social networking site, for students at the Quest to Learn public school in New York, to help them actively understand and participate in creating their own health and wellness.
The Texas Youth Fitness Study
March 24, 2011 | Program Result
Researchers at the Cooper Institute in Dallas report there are small but consistently positive associations between fitness and academic achievement.
RWJF Alum Explores Future of Comparative Effectiveness Research at Meharry Seminar
February 23, 2011 | Story
Making the most of our health care resources means learning what systems and treatments work best. A former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar shows the way.
Developing a Blueprint for What Children and Families Need from Health Reform
October 8, 2010 | Program Result
In May 2009, researchers at the Center for Children and Families at the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute produced a report providing a blueprint for what children and families need from health reform.
To Leave or to Lie?
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
In this qualitative study, the authors explore how medical and surgical residents perceive and respond to duty-hour rules (DHR) by examining the “local” organizational culture in which their work is embedded.
Special Supplement to Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport Presents Findings of Texas-Wide School-Based Fitness Testing
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This September 2010 special supplement analyzes and evaluates the Texas Youth Fitness Study from a number of perspectives.
Overview of the Texas Youth Fitness Study
September 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Study provides data on youth fitness in one state advances the knowledge base on school-based fitness testing and the factors influencing youth fitness.