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April 24, 2013 | Report
Obesity-prevention policies could save the U.S. billions of dollars in the long run. A new report from the Campaign to End Obesity shows that the way estimates for the costs of legislation are done now misses a lot of their value.
National Program
To help develop a new generation of creative thinkers in health policy research within the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology.
April 4, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
The majority of my work in the Department of Research and Evaluation at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been predicated on the long-held assumption that if you show people convincingly that doing one thing will create the outcome they desire, ...
July 1, 2009 | Issue Brief
Research brief provides the latest data about the potential effects of sugar-sweetened beverage taxes on consumer behavior and health.
April 24, 2013 | News Release
Obesity-prevention policies could save the U.S. billions of dollars in the long run. A new report from the Campaign to End Obesity shows that the way estimates for the costs of legislation are done now misses a lot of their value.
October 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article examines 53 diseases over 19 years to better understand how disease advocacy has impacted funding distributions, changed the perceived beneficiaries of policies, promoted metrics for commensuration, and made culture categories of worth more relevant to policy-making.
February 1, 2004 | Program Result
Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Mass. convened the nation's leading economists and economic policy-makers June 27-30, 2001, to discuss and analyze the impact of economic policies of the last decade.
February 1, 2000 | Program Result
RWJF funded a conference in which health economists, health policy specialists and managed care executives analyzed and critiqued the Clinton Administration's health care reform plan. It was the first of a series called the Princeton Conferences.
April 11, 2012 | Journal Article
A new initiative of the Affordable Care Act known as accountable care organizations, received final rules from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
December 1, 2002 | Program Result
In 1999, the American Economic Association conducted a symposium on Medicare reform.