Many RWJF grants are awarded through a network of more than 80 program groups, called national programs. By providing leadership, fostering communication and collaboration and serving as champions of innovation, national programs can help unite distinct efforts into a broader movement that can achieve social change. National programs are typically administered by universities, nonprofit groups or Foundation staff. Below is a list of current national programs.

Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education
To identify, evaluate, and disseminate innovative strategies to increase the teaching capacity of nursing schools, as well as to promote the recruitment and retention of nurse faculty, with the long-term goal of educating more students.

Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program
To provide four-year awards for postdoctoral research to physicians and dentists from historically underrepresented groups who are committed to developing careers in academic medicine and dentistry, improving the health of underserved populations, furthering understanding, and eliminating health disparities.

Health Policy Partnerships in Diversity
To increase the diversity of those with formal training in the fields of economics, political science and sociology who engage in health services and health policy research.

Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative
To support interdisciplinary studies that address critical knowledge gaps regarding causal linkages between nursing and health care quality and to synthesize, translate, and disseminate major findings to key stakeholders.

Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research
To encourage researchers whose crosscutting and innovative ideas promise to contribute meaningfully to improving U.S. health and health care policy.

Jobs to Careers: Promoting Work-Based Learning for Quality Care
To establish systems that train, develop, reward and advance current front-line health and health care workers to improve the quality of care and ensure the quality of services provided to patients and communities.

Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Community Health Leaders
To develop a cadre of future health leaders from community-based nonprofit organizations serving vulnerable people.

New Jersey Nursing Initiative: So a Nurse Will Be There for You
To address the New Jersey nurse faculty shortage by developing, implementing and evaluating a statewide model for recruitment and retention of nurse faculty.

Partners Investing in Nursing's Future
To support the capacity, involvement and leadership of local foundations and community partners in implementing localized nursing shortage solutions to serve as templates for communities facing similar issues nationwide.

Pipeline, Profession and Practice: Community-Based Dental Education
To assist dental schools in: (1) increasing access to dental care for underserved populations and (2) recruiting and training more low-income and minority students.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at Meharry
To increase the number and diversity of Ph.D. graduates with formal training in the fields of sociology and economics who engage in health services and health policy research.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program®
To augment clinical training of physicians by providing new skills and perspectives necessary to achieving leadership positions within and outside academia.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders
To provide recognition for the contributions community health leaders make to achieving RWJF's mission and goals, and to enhance their capacity to have more permanent and widespread impact on health problems.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows
To provide advanced leadership opportunities for nurses in senior executive roles in health services, public health and nursing education who aspire to lead and shape the U.S. health care system of the future.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars
To build the field of population health by training scholars to investigate the connections among biological, behavioral, environmental, economic and social determinants of health and develop policies to improve population health.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows
To allow midcareer health professionals and behavioral and social scientists to participate in a one-year residency in Washington, D.C., working for Congress on health policy issues.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing
To facilitate implementation of recommendations made by the RWJF Initiative on the Future of Nursing Committee and reinforce the central role of nurses in providing quality care in a transformed health system.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Careers in Nursing
To address the nursing shortage by funding scholarships for accelerated bachelor's and master's degrees in nursing, with preference given to schools that increase the number of students in these programs or increase enrollment and retention of disadvantaged or minority students.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars
To increase the stature and academic standing of nurse faculty and draw more nurses to teaching careers by creating a cadre of national leaders in academic nursing through career-development awards to outstanding junior nurse faculty.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Faculty Scholars
To strengthen the leadership and academic productivity of junior medical school faculty who are dedicated to improving health and health care.

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research
To help develop a new generation of creative thinkers in health policy research within the disciplines of economics, political science and sociology.

Summer Medical and Dental Education Program
To develop and implement a six-week academic enrichment program for undergraduates from minority groups, rural areas, and economically disadvantaged backgrounds who are interested in pursuing careers in medicine or dentistry.

Convergence Partnership for Healthy Eating and Active Living
To unite funding partners in a collaborative effort to accelerate and support policy and environmental changes to improve the health of people and places.

Evaluating Quality Improvement Training Programs
To increase the understanding of what works in quality improvement training (QIT) programs in an effort to increase the likelihood more organizations adopt best practices and more health providers acquire QIT.

New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming
To bring new perspectives to Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) grantmaking by supporting researchers from historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities to conduct secondary analyses on existing datasets and to help RWJF address specific research questions.

Statewide Evaluations of Childhood Obesity Prevention Policies
To build the evidence base to prevent childhood obesity by evaluating state-level policies that might affect children's access to healthy foods and opportunities for physical activity.

Young Epidemiology Scholars (YES) Program: A National Effort to Attract the Attention of Young Scholars to the Health of the Public®
To attract the best and the brightest high school students to become the public health leaders of the future.