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President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey reflects on the mission, goal, and programs of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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Creating Healthier Communities: Who's Doing It, and How?
Six communities won the Roadmaps to Health Prize, a new initiative from RWJF which funds public health programs. All winners placed an emphasis on youth engagement—an aspect underscored by RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD.
How Can We Get Kids to Sit Less and Move More?
Writing in the Huffington Post Healthy Living blog, RWJF President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, says kids are far less active than they need to be in order to make a dent in the epidemic of childhood obesity. And she asks: What are you doing to get kids moving?
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The Human Face of Hospital Readmissions
One in five elderly patients winds up back in the hospital within 30 days of leaving. Writing in the Health Affairs' blog, Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, president and CEO of RWJF, explains that we need to pinpoint the human factors behind these numbers.
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Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice
A new report shows private-sector companies and nonprofits making headway in their commitments to help reverse the childhood obesity epidemic. Foundation President and CEO Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, says the findings are encouraging, but more needs to be done.
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Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, RWJF president and CEO, kicked off the annual summit of the Future of Nursing: Campaign for Action by joining a conversation with RWJF Senior Communications Officer Linda Wright Moore about the Foundation’s commitment to transforming health care through nursing. Watch three excerpts from their conversation.
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."