Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research
An RWJF National Program
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research is a national program that aims to build the capacity of the health policy field by offering general research support for innovative ideas that are unlikely to be funded elsewhere. It started in 1993.
The program encourages investigators to think creatively about the most important problems affecting American health and health care and to contribute to the intellectual foundation of future health policy. It serves as one of the Foundation’s main vehicles for funding research on broad health policy issues. Grants to investigators have ranged in size up to $335,000 and in length from two to four years.
From 1993 to June 2010 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) made awards for 167 projects totaling more than $43.6 million to 216 investigators. The investigators were drawn from such fields as economics, public health, sociology, political science, ethics, journalism, medicine and law.
As of May 2010 the investigators supported by this award program had collectively published 68 books, two special issues of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 143 book chapters, and 839 papers in more than 150 journals including Health Affairs, New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, American Journal of Public Health, Milbank Quarterly, Social Science and Medicine and Health Services Research.