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March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article presents an overview of the Survive and Thrive Program, a training program designed to help new local health officials develop the knowledge and skills to succeed at their work.
December 1, 2000 | Program Result
RWJF provided scholarship funds to include consumer and public health representation at a national meeting on creating a broad-based, consumer-oriented, health information organization called the Valeo Initiative.
January 1, 1997 | Program Result
This initiative serves low-income, foreign-born children of elementary school age who have lived in the United States for two years or less and who have unresolved health or medical problems and/or are having difficulty in obtaining the health care services they need.
National Program
To develop a public health practice-based research network to help stakeholders understand how research in public health systems can be used to improve public health performance and impact.
January 18, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The lead partner, Scott Gelzer from the Faye McBeath Foundation, was already a nursing funder and supporter. He was able to interest two other foundations in the critical work to invest in public health. As the nursing leader of the project, I learn ...
February 23, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Barbara A. Garcia, M.P.A., a RWJF Community Health Leader (1993), began her duties as director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health in January. Garcia had been the Department’s deputy since 1999. “Becoming the director is a really exciti ...
November 26, 2012 | Program Result
The Health Impact Project is advancing the use of health impact assessments (HIAs), used to determine the potential health effects of a proposed policy or project. Interest in HIAs is growing at the local, state, tribal and federal levels.
November 1, 2001 | Program Result
From 1996 to 1999, the Medicine/Public Health Initiative (M/PHI) developed partnerships between the public health and medical communities at the state and local levels.