Features

May 14, 2008

Playing Games to Improve Health at the 2008 Games for Health Conference
Pioneer grantee Games for Health demonstrates how computer and video games, one of today's fastest growing media forms, can provide an exciting range of opportunities to address some of today's most complex health and health care challenges.

May 7, 2008

Remarks by Tracy Orleans at the Launch Event for PHS Tobacco Cessation Guidelines in Chicago
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is proud, along with the other organizations represented here today, to endorse the updated guidelines, and we are committed to making it easier for the 70 percent of the nation's 45 million smokers who want to quit—succeed.The ...

May 2, 2008

CeaseFire: A Successful Model for Reducing Violence Among Young People
A strategic effort to reverse the violence epidemic using highly-trained street outreach staff, public education and community mobilization.

Apr 30, 2008

Foundation Awards $725,000 Grant for Online Competency-Based Bachelor of Science in Nursing Program
RWJF is one of several initial supporters of the three-year grant to Western Governors University.

Apr 8, 2008

Reports Profile Innovative Strategies for Improving Care and Controlling Costs for High-Need, High-Cost Patients
Two Center for Health Care Strategies publications, developed with support from RWJF, focus on opportunities for states to improve care and control costs for high-need beneficiaries. The programs outlined in these CHCS publications are particularly relevant as many states face widening budget shortfalls.

Apr 7, 2008

Playing Games to Improve Health
Today, digital interactive games and game technologies are going beyond entertainment to shape how we gain new skills and information. What does this mean for health and health care?

Mar 31, 2008

New Foundation-Supported Campaign To Help Smokers Quit
The EX campaign, a collaboration of the nation's leading public health organizations and 14 states, marks the culmination of several years of research and testing, combining an understanding of the power of nicotine addiction with messages that resonate with and motivate smokers to quit.