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April 2, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
In what many believe to be a first-of-its-kind program, Pima County libraries teamed up with the county Health Department to start a jointly-funded “library nurse program.”
April 13, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Q: What can I do with a career in public health? Tell me what you do. A: "As a Communications Watch Officer for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, I research public health emergencies and the communications equipment used during… emer ...
October 30, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Arthur Kellermann, MD, MPH, FACEP, an alumnus of the RWJF Health Policy Fellows and Clinical Scholars programs, recently named head of the health research division at the RAND Corporation, who will provide an inside view of federal health policy-mak ...
May 20, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Congratulations to Harvey Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D., president of the Institute of Medicine and chair of the national advisory committee for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Health & Society Scholars program, on being awarded the Frank A. Calde ...
December 22, 2010 | Human Capital Blog Post
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) has appointed David Vlahov, Ph.D., R.N., the new dean of the School of Nursing. Vlahov is co-director of the national program office for the RWJF Health & Society Scholars program, and president of ...
October 29, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Melody S. Goodman reflects on the American Public Health Association annual meeting.
January 18, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The lead partner, Scott Gelzer from the Faye McBeath Foundation, was already a nursing funder and supporter. He was able to interest two other foundations in the critical work to invest in public health. As the nursing leader of the project, I learn ...
February 23, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Barbara A. Garcia, M.P.A., a RWJF Community Health Leader (1993), began her duties as director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health in January. Garcia had been the Department’s deputy since 1999. “Becoming the director is a really exciti ...
February 16, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Congratulations are in order for Sue Birch, R.N., M.B.A., an alum of the RWJF Executive Nurse Fellows program. In January, this blog reported that Colorado Governor-Elect John Hickenlooper had nominated Birch to serve as the executive director of th ...
January 4, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Congratulations are in order for Sue Birch, R.N., M.B.A., an alum of the RWJF Executive Nurse Fellows program. Colorado Governor-Elect John Hickenlooper has named her the new executive director of that state’s Department of Health Care Policy and Fi ...