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You Can Stop the Flu, Even with Your Hands Full
May 22, 2010 | Advertisement
Last fall, at the height of the H1N1 epidemic in the United States, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Executive Nurse Fellow Lisa Davis, R.N., B.S.N., M.B.A. and Deborah Washington, R.N., Ph.D.c. (2007-2010 cohort) met for dinner. Since both are ...
It Takes a Community to Solve a Health Problem
January 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
From 1993 to 2001, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, developed and implemented Community Health in Focus, a program designed to use the convening role of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to stimulate action on health care issues identified by local communities.