Childhood Obesity Program Area
RWJF is committed to tackling one of the most urgent threats to the health of our children and families—childhood obesity. Our goal is to reverse the childhood obesity epidemic by 2015.
Patient Safety and Outcomes
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Improving the Health and Health Care of All Americans: A Film About the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
August 7, 2009 | Video
The RWJF story is told through the eyes and voices of the people with whom we work most directly.
Forty-Two Years of Improving Health and Health Care for Mothers, Infants and Families through Nurse-Midwifery
June 28, 2012 | Story
Ruth Watson Lubic recalls the Foundation's early history in the field of nurse-midwifery, and an old trail-blazing friend.
Health e-Technologies: Building the Science of eHealth
May 28, 2010 | Program Result
Health e-Technologies supported research to evaluate the effectiveness of technological applications in improving health behaviors and chronic disease management and in enhancing patient-provider interactions.
Poor Diets, Little Exercise Leading Cause of Preventable Illness and Deaths
June 1, 2004 | Program Result
Between 1997 and 1999, researchers with the Association of Academic Health Centers updated a 1993 analysis of external (nongenetic) factors that contribute to the leading causes of death in the United States.
HealthPartners Survey Shows Its Initiatives Can Improve Health Throughout the Minneapolis Community
July 1, 2003 | Program Result
HealthPartners Research Foundation assessed the lifestyles and health status characteristics of two survey samples of the greater Minneapolis area: one representative of the larger community, the other focused on residents in poorer areas.