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January 5, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
In the New Year I hope that our thinking about housing policy will more systematically incorporate the expanding evidence and relevance of housing conditions for population health and health care policy. Many aspects of internal housing conditions a ...
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A collaboration between researchers and community developers in San Francisco aims to study the health effects of affordable housing in low-income communities.
October 21, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Craig Pollack , MD, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar alumnus (2006-2009), has been looking at the ways the nation’s housing crisis is harming the health of those affected by foreclosures. In a series of studies conducted with fellow s ...
May 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
This issue brief examines the ways in which housing can influence health and discusses promising strategies to improve America's health by ensuring that all Americans have healthy homes.
October 1, 2009 | Journal Article
Foreclosure affects already-vulnerable populations. Public health practitioners may be able to leverage current efforts to connect homeowners with mortgage counseling agencies to improve health care access.
June 5, 2012 | News Release
New program pairs supportive housing and social services to strengthen fragile families and avert foster care placements.
June 4, 2012 | Story
Recommended Reading Keeping Families Together: A Pilot Program and Its Evaluation Keeping Families Together Watch the video: Home. Stronger, Together Thanks to a new approach to stabilizing fragile families involved with the child welfare system, a ...
April 26, 2012 | New Public Health Post
The connection between health and energy consumption is an area just beginning to be understood, but when some people are forced to choose between paying their energy bill and paying for food or medicine, it becomes critical. The Health Impact Proje ...
December 15, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Where you live—your zip code, your neighborhood, and even your home—may have just as much or more impact on your health as what goes on in the doctor’s office. “You can predict the life expectancy of a child by the zip code in which they grow up. Th ...
May 10, 2013 | Feature/Infographic
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is working to increase awareness and understanding of the impact of ACEs and the need to develop effective innovative interventions.