Healthy Kids Lead to a Healthy Economy: Op-Ed
December 4, 2012 | New Public Health Post
A new op-ed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune makes clear the connection between the economy and improving public health.
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Donald Yu of the Department of Education: National Prevention Strategy Q&A
August 28, 2012 | New Public Health Post
As the National Prevention Strategy is rolled out, NewPublicHealth will be speaking with Cabinet Secretaries, Agency directors and their designees to the Prevention Council about their prevention initiatives. Follow the series here. We recently spok ...
Nine States Receive RWJF Grants to Build More Highly Educated Nursing Workforce
August 23, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Academic Progression in Nursing (APIN) program this week announced that California, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Montana, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Texas and Washington state have been chosen to receive gra ...
Maisha Simmons Q&A: New Opportunities for Young Men of Color Through Collaboration
August 20, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Much attention has been paid on NewPublicHealth and elsewhere to the connection between education, health, economic opportunity, and even life expectancy. Sadly, when we consider the health and life trajectories for our young men of color in this co ...
Arne Duncan, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Education: National Prevention Strategy Series
July 19, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Arne Duncan, secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, speaks with the NewPublicHealth.org blog.
National Nurses Week 2012 and New Jersey
May 8, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Happy National Nurses Week! The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has a proud history of supporting nurses and nurse leadership, so this week, the RWJF Human Capital Blog will feature posts by nurses, including leaders from some of our nursing p ...
Creating a Better Educated Workforce: Transforming Patient Care
May 7, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Happy National Nurses Week! The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has a proud history of supporting nurses and nurse leadership, so this week, the RWJF Human Capital Blog will feature posts by nurses, including leaders from some of our nursing p ...
County Health Calculator 2.0: Q&A With Steven Woolf
April 4, 2012 | New Public Health Post
In conjunction with the third release of the County Health Rankings, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and Virginia Commonwealth University’s Center on Human Needs have released an updated version of the County Health Calculator, an interactive, on ...
The Case for Nursing Education Progression
March 23, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
In a recent American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) survey of Chief Nurse Officers, half of respondents said their hospitals preferentially hire BSN nurses, although just over a third pay BSN nurses more at the time of hire. And some of the ...
RWJF Launches New Initiative to Support Academic Progression in Nursing
March 22, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) yesterday announced the launch of the Academic Progression in Nursing (APIN) initiative, to advance state and regional strategies to create a more highly educated nursing workforce. The $4.3 million, Phase 1 ...