Live Webinar—Book Talk: Necessary Conversations Participants joined Dr. Alonzo Plough as he modeled how to talk about structural racism. The webinar offered insight into health equity as the ...

Lessons Learned Observing Nine Communities The Sentinel Communities project follows the experiences of 29 diverse communities and their efforts to promote health and wellbeing. Since the onset of the ...

With Mount Adams in Washington to the north and Mount Hood in Oregon to the south, the windy Columbia River Gorge boasts ideal conditions for kite surfers and sailors. High-tech companies have moved ...

Healthcare spending in the United States would decline by $797 billion over the next decade under the congressional spending bill passed by the House of Representatives.

The Marketplace Pulse series provides expert insights on timely policy topics related to the health insurance marketplaces. The series, authored by RWJF Senior Policy Adviser Katherine Hempstead, ...

Too many babies are buried in the small cemetery on the Shoalwater Bay Indian Reservation. An inordinate number of miscarriages, stillbirths and infant deaths in the 1990s left a deep scar within the ...

The benefits of paid family leave are clear, but 80 percent of U.S. workers don’t have access to it. That means after having a baby, adopting a child, falling ill, or needing to care for a sick parent ...

RWJF is a leading national philanthropy dedicated to taking bold leaps to transform health in our lifetime. To get there, we must work to dismantle structural racism and other barriers to health.

As I shared in November, the long haul toward advancing health equity requires more than just words, it requires action. But words do matter. A lot. Since the election, we have used our voice to lift ...

Reviews of Well-Being: Expanding the Definition of Progress “Alonzo Plough has carefully curated insights that illuminate the centrality of communities, social systems, and social determinants; and ...

The program, which is coming to a close this year, supported national membership organizations from public health, healthcare, social justice, civic leadership, community development, education, ...

The second brief in the series, Increasing Access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to Advance Health Equity, focuses on SNAP, the nation’s largest food assistance program which ...