Time to Understand and Eliminate the Destructive Racial Disparities that Plague Our Health Care System
January 16, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
This post is part of the "Health Care in 2013" series.
Racial Disparities
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An RWJF Nurse Faculty Scholar Attacks Health Disparities With Research
December 8, 2011 | Story
A profile of Jacquelyn Taylor, PhD, PNP-BC, RN, Nurse Faculty Scholar.
Profile: Edge Runner Patricia Gerrity
February 18, 2009 | Story
Gerrity and the 11th Street Family Health Services Center are meeting the needs of a low-income Philadelphia community with an innovative, nurse-managed approach.
New Jersey Works to Increase Minority Nursing Workforce
February 1, 2000 | Program Result
The New Jersey-based Cooperative Nursing Program engaged in a series of academic and social support interventions that sought to increase the retention of minority nursing students and encourage them to pursue advanced degrees.
Ninety-Minute Video Educates Health Professional on the Role of Race and Genetics in Health Care
March 1, 2008 | Program Result
The National Coalition for Health Professional Education in Genetics produced and disseminated a 90-minute television program to educate health care professionals about the role of race and genetics in health care.
Human Capital News Roundup: Racial disparities and life expectancy, colonoscopies, training on suicide risk and more.
March 1, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Around the country, the news media is covering the groundbreaking work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation scholars, fellows and grantees. Here are some examples. In a story about the 75th anniversary of the College of Nursing at Montana State Univers ...
Human Capital News Roundup: Benefits of living alone, screening for osteoporosis, the impact of racism on health, and more.
January 26, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Here’s a sampling of recent news coverage of the work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars and Fellows: Smithsonian Magazine interviewed Eric Klinenberg, PhD, recipient of a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Investigator Award in Health Po ...
Living the Dream: How We Care Matters
January 16, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
My first nursing job was in the ICU. The first thing I did after report was to clean my patients up and make them as comfortable as I could. I would change the wrinkled sheets they laid on all day in a hard bed. I got them up and out of the bed if t ...
Nurse Leader Helps Lead Battle against Breast Cancer in African American Women
September 29, 2011 | Story
As a young girl, RWJF Fellow Janice Phillips bore painful witness to the scourge of breast cancer; now she's a renowned leader of the campaign to end it.
How a Personal Experience Led to a Program of Research Focused on Eliminating Intimate Partner Violence Disparities Among Hispanic Women
May 18, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Moments of romance and bliss turned into moments of anger, aggression and torment. Times of peace grew shorter and shorter, as he grew increasingly emotionally abusive. He did some “man handling” too. When I decided to go off to graduate school at J ...