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Policies shouldn’t be a puzzle. Use tools that make them accessible. While data is critical, people must also have a voice in shaping laws and policies that affect their lives. But it can be difficult ...
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: Core to Our Mission Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts create access and opportunity for people who have historically faced greater barriers to living ...
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.
To transform health in our lifetime, RWJF funds research and initiatives focused on achieving health equity. Review our active and upcoming funding opportunities to see where you can play a role in ...
National Commission to Transform Public Health Data Systems Equity and overall wellbeing are not generally part of how we talk about health, and are not emphasized in our data collection. This has to ...
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, ...
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 ...
About the Survey—The Impact of Coronavirus NPR, the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation conducted a five-part polling series between July and August 2020 ...
COVID-19 has unleashed a dual threat to health equity in the United States: a pandemic that has sickened millions and killed tens of thousands and counting, and an economic downturn that has resulted ...
Between 2025 and 2034, providers would lose $1 trillion. Hospitals alone would face a $306 revenue hit. The analysis shows the spending bill would also increase uncompensated care costs—services ...
When we imagine a caregiver, we often picture a woman: a mother caring for young children, spouse, and the daily household chores, a daughter nursing a father with disabilities, or a female child care ...
Princeton, N.J. —The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) announced the nine communities chosen to receive the 2023 RWJF Culture of Health Prize. The Prize celebrates communities across the country ...