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November 6, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Public Health Law Research, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation housed at the Temple University Beasley School of Law, recently released a new, comprehensive online portal called LawAtlas that allows users to explore variation i ...
May 2, 2012 | New Public Health Post
JAMA Study Raises Concerns about Quality of Clinical Trials A new analysis of three years of clinical trial data published on ClinicalTrials.gov, a registry maintained by the National Institutes of Health, found that many of the trials were too smal ...
September 19, 2011 | Human Capital Blog Post
Christine A. Bachrach, PhD, co-director of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) Health & Society Scholars program, was recently elected president of the Population Association of America (PAA). She will serve as president of the association in ...
June 15, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Public Health Systems Research is the discipline that examines the organization, financing, and delivery of public health services and the impact of those activities on population health. The AcademyHealth PHSR Interest Group, which has grown to ove ...
June 7, 2011 | New Public Health Post
What's the latest in health services research and current health policy issues? You'll be able to find out at the AcademyHealth Annual Research Meeting, which takes place June 12-14 in Seattle. The annual meeting has been the premiere forum for heal ...
April 7, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Idea Gallery is a recurring editorial series on NewPublicHealth in which guest authors provide their perspective on issues affecting public health. Today’s contributor is Glen P. Mays, Professor and Chair and director of research for the Department ...
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Lessons to be learned from the Progressive era values?of efficiency, science and rationality?in response to the flu epidemic.
February 6, 2011 | Story
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will be a sponsor at this year's TED 2011 conference in Long Beach, Calif.
March 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Policy-makers can decide what areas of public health to invest in by examining the factors that determine mortality rates. This study calculated potential reductions to mortality rates in U.S. states if the health determinants of each state were optimal.
December 22, 2010 | Human Capital Blog Post
Bruce Barrett, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and an alum of RWJF Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar program (2003), is getting some noteworthy press attention for his recent st ...