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We value community wisdom and institutional knowledge, and our commitment to continuous learning allows us to listen and connect insights to chart a course to health equity—faster and together. Explore news, research, policy updates and thought leadership from experts within and outside RWJF, below.

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The landscape affecting the barriers to health equity is constantly shifting. Stay up to date as RWJF experts share their perspectives on timely news affecting our collective ability to get to a future where health equity is a reality.

Strengthening Medicaid should remain a national imperative

Perspective from Vice President of Policy Avenel Joseph
Read the op-ed in Route Fifty

The Promise and Peril of Being Transgender in America

Perspective from RWJF Executive Vice President Julie Morita and Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, National Center for Transgender Equality
Read their op-ed in U.S. News

Work requirements are a policy failure: Why are they still an option?

Perspective from Katherine Hempstead, Senior Policy Adviser
Read her op-ed in The Hill

Expert Insights

Sharing solutions and stories from communities across America, along with critical perspectives and the best available data and evidence that can inform progress toward a future where health is no longer a privilege, but a right.

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Expert Insights & Thought Leadership

Our blog features perspectives from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation staff and guest authors, grantees, and partners who are working to achieve health equity—faster and together.

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How Shifting Power in Research Leads to Better Solutions

When people who face inequities participate in the research process, they create solutions that drive lasting change. Learn how RWJF is supporting this work—and apply for a funding opportunity.

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Finding Hope on the Path to Health Equity

Hope can help us pave the way together to a future where health is not a privilege for some, but a right for all.

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Truth, Repair, and Transformation Structural Racism
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Our Research

We work to expand our nation's evidence base on what can help us achieve health equity faster and together. We recognize that equitable data collection and analysis is necessary to dismantle barriers to health equity.

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Closing the Medicaid Coverage Gap

Despite massive reductions in the number of uninsured Americans as a result of states expanding their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act, 10 states have not expanded eligibility, denying health coverage to nearly 2 million people.

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Healthcare Coverage and Access Policy and Law
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Promoting Policy Tools That Advance Health and Racial Equity

RWJF is committed to promoting and protecting inclusive policymaking and ballot measure access, two democratic tools that are critical to achieving a world where health is not a privilege for some but a right for all.

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Ideas for an Equitable Future

We work with scientists, anthropologists, engineers, artists, and other creative thinkers across the nation to explore and accelerate cutting-edge ideas that could pave the way toward a future where health is no longer a privilege, but a right.

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Advocacy & Policy

We are committed to advancing the policies, practices, and systems changes that can dismantle structural barriers to wellbeing, especially racism. We take the long view and focus on efforts that have a lasting impact on systemic, generational change.

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Hospital Revenue Losses And Increased Uncompensated Care If Medicaid Funding Is Cut

Cutting federal Medicaid funding provided to states that expanded their Medicaid program under the ACA could lead to substantial losses in revenue for healthcare providers and spikes in uncompensated care.

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Imposing Per Capita Medicaid Caps and Reducing the Affordable Care Act's Enhanced Match

Capping federal government support, along with eliminating the enhanced federal matching rate, would shift hundreds of billions of dollars in healthcare costs to states.

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Marketplace Pulse: Congressional Districts Where Affordable Care Act Enrollees Face the Highest Prem...

If Congress fails to extend the enhanced premium tax credits for ACA marketplace enrollees, residents in high-cost states could pay more than others in America in 2026.

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