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We work side-by-side with communities, practitioners, and institutions to achieve health equity faster and pave the way, together, to a future where health is no longer a privilege, but a right. We ...

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), located in Princeton, N.J., is a leading national philanthropy dedicated to taking bold leaps to transform health in our lifetime. To get there, we must work ...

RWJF is committed to ensuring everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. To achieve this goal, we support research that examines the historical and systemic factors that ...

Report Publish Date: January 2022 This journal article describes a study simulating the effects—on households of different income levels—of a national sugar-sweetened beverage tax, fruit and vegetable ...

Report Mar-22-2023 Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Data Policy Lab at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research 3-min read “NHPI data needs are present throughout the data life cycle,” the ...

The following comments were submitted by Richard Besser, MD, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) President and CEO, in response to a request for information (RFI) from Ron Wyden, United States ...

The Health Insurance Marketplace (Marketplace) and Medicaid are important sources of coverage in farm states, with between one-fifth and one-third of the states’ populations enrolled in one of these ...

On a grey, drizzly day in February at the Washington Neighborhood Center (WNC), a handful of Native elders offer guidance to teenagers who are rolling bits of rosemary, sage, and sweetgrass into ...

PRINCETON—The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) today announced nine communities chosen to receive the 2024 RWJF Culture of Health Prize. The Prize celebrates communities that have made incredible ...

Federal policy changes could strain hospital finances and patient care. Hospitals and health systems may soon struggle to provide adequate patient care, as recent federal policy changes are expected ...

If the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) enhanced premium tax credits expire, hospitals, physicians, and other providers would face more than $32.1 billion in lost revenue and a $7.7 billion spike in ...