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January 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
The study, led by Milbrey McLaughlin, Founding Director and Rebecca London, Senior Researcher, at the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University, examines the implementation of Playworks programs in eight Silicon Valley schools.
January 1, 2011 | Issue Brief
This brief is one in a series of final reports from the Study of Playworks Implementation in Eight Bay Area Schools. It examines the ways that Playworks promotes positive youth development and reports students’, teachers’, and principals’ views of t ...
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The patient-centered medical home model holds the potential for reducing disease complications and improving health, and the federal government is now promoting the adoption of the model within federally qualified community health centers.
National Program
To build state and national momentum to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity through strategic investment in those communities most affected.
December 14, 2010 | Report/Evaluation
This study examines the initial implementation of Playworks in six San Francisco and Silicon Valley schools, and measures the effectiveness of the programs in two schools with already established Playworks programs.
April 24, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
An appendectomy in California could cost anywhere from $1,500 to more than $180,000, even at the same hospital or within the same county, according to a study led by RWJF Physician Faculty Scholar Renee Y. Hsia, MD, MSc. The study, published this we ...
March 21, 2012 | Story
RWJF scholar finds that a tool used to evaluate patient-centered care at community health centers might not measure the quality of care actually delivered.
April 23, 2010 | Report/Evaluation
The Playworks theory of change is one product in a series of final reports from the Study of Playworks Implementation in Eight Bay Area Schools. It describes the components required to bring about the program’s long-term goal of healthy child develo ...
March 1, 2013 | Report/Evaluation
California’s Healthy Beverages in Childcare Act was implemented in January 2012 to regulate beverages in licensed childcare centers. This report measures the impact of the policy on childcare practices.
May 6, 2009 | Evaluation
This evaluation, led by Judith Woodridge of Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. (MPR), looks at an initiative designed and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to establish state-based consumer health advocacy networks.