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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.

Lead States in Public Health Quality Improvement
To create a peer network of innovator states with experience in designing and implementing a process for systematic assessment of local public health agency capacity and performance.

Tobacco Policy Change: A Collaborative for Healthier Communities and States
To provide resources and technical assistance for community, regional and national organizations and tribal groups advocating for effective tobacco prevention and cessation policy initiatives.

Bridging the Gap: Research Informing Practice and Policy for Healthy Youth Behavior
To improve understanding of school, community, state and national policies and environmental factors affecting youth diet, physical activity, obesity, and tobacco, alcohol and drug use, and to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to prevent youth obesity and tobacco use.

Common Ground: Transforming Public Health Information Systems
To support collaborative processes among state and local public health departments to advance the use of information systems to support preparedness and manage chronic disease.

Public Health Informatics Fellows Training Program
To use fellowship training in public health informatics as a strategy to catalyze the development of the field and create a sustainable pipeline of future leaders in public health informatics.

Public Health Law Research: Making the Case for Laws That Improve Health
To build the evidence for public health law and policy, translate research findings into practical tools to increase the support for and use of law by policy-makers and public health practitioners, and translate findings to other fields and venues to improve and protect health.

Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
A center to work with a variety of health professional organizations and institutions to increase their motivation and capability to refer smokers into treatment.

State Health Leadership Initiative
To accelerate the development of the leadership capacity of state and territorial health officers as policy-makers, administrators and advocates for the health of the public.

Substance Abuse Policy Research Program
To encourage experts in public health, law, political science, medicine, sociology, criminal justice, economics, psychology, and other behavioral and policy sciences to address issues of substance abuse.