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July 8, 2009 | Program Result Report
RWJF subcontracted with two independent researchers to produce a report titled Issues in Evaluating Health Department Web-based Data Query Systems: Working Papers.
March 18, 2010 | Program Result Report
An "Avian Influenza Market," a "prediction market," modeled on the principles of commodities futures trading, forecast the timing and extent of a possible human-to-human bird flu outbreak.
November 10, 2009 | Program Result Report
Can the emerging technology of reality mining - which involves inferring human relationships and behavior by measuring physical and social activity - be used to improve public health and medicine?
November 17, 2008 | Program Result Report
Staff at UCLA conducted a health impact assessment to investigate how public markets affect the health of communities. As its study site, staff selected the 60-year-old Trenton Farmers' Market in Trenton, N.J.
July 1, 2005 | Program Result Report
From 2001 to 2003, a California-based research group, the Institute for the Future, used two exploratory grants from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) to assess health care decision-makers' knowledge about new discoveries in genetics and to develop two proposals for a major educational initiative to inform health care leaders about the new discoveries, their clinical applications and the legal and ethical issues surrounding them. In 2002, RWJF turned down the two proposals partly bec...
March 1, 2001 | Program Result Report
The March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation organized two meetings of the Genetics Awareness Coalition.