In her Annual Message, President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, reflects on the Foundation’s bold new vision in which we, as a nation, will strive together to create a culture of health that enables everyone in our diverse society to lead healthy lives now and for generations to come. Audacious? Perhaps. But we believe it is possible, and we pledge to see it through.
As we mark our 40th year as a national philanthropy, this President's Message reflects on the landscape of our achievements to date, in areas of health policy as diverse as chronic conditions, tobacco use and end-of-life care. We now set our sights on frontiers and summits yet to come—notably, the deepening and pervasive crisis in health care costs.
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This message looks at forces affecting RWJF's work and describes some of the extraordinary members of the RWJF family who are leading a quiet revolution.
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Risa Lavizzo-Mourey speaks to how the Foundation's efforts will continue to further our mission—to improve the health and health care of all Americans—and will support progress toward the implementation of health care reform.
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Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD
A national leader in transforming America's health systems so people live healthier lives and receive the health care they need. A practicing physician with business credentials and hands-on experience developing national health policy, she was drawn to the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation by the opportunity, as she puts it, to "alter the trajectory and to push society to change for the better."