March 22, 2012
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Human Capital Blog
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Around the country, the news media is covering the groundbreaking work of Robert Wood Johnson Foundation scholars, fellows and grantees. Here are some examples. “Louisville [Kentucky] is going high-tech to try to figure out what’s behind the city’s ...
November 1, 1996
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Program Result
Researchers evaluated the success of the Harold Amos Minority Medical Faculty Development Program in making an impact on the careers of its fellows.
March 1, 2000
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Program Result
The South Dakota Department of Health addressed the decline in the number of its rural practice sites by creating four Regional Coordinated Care Networks to promote primary care linkages in underserved areas.
August 22, 2012
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Human Capital Blog
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RWJF and The Alliance for Health Reform sponsored a briefing to discuss oral health care in the United States, particularly for children and other vulnerable populations.
National Program
To provide four-year awards for postdoctoral research to physicians and dentists from historically underrepresented groups who are committed to developing careers in academic medicine and dentistry.
National Program
To assist dental schools.
February 1, 2009
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Journal Article
Launched in 2001, the Pipeline, Profession & Practice: Community-Based Dental Education (Dental Pipeline) program was a five-year program designed to help increase access to dental care for underserved populations. This special supplement to the Journal of Dental Education describes the evaluation in detail.
January 1, 2003
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Program Result
The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions/Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, Baltimore, implemented and evaluated a curriculum it had developed for population/community-oriented primary care.
July 1, 2001
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Program Result
The US Schweitzer Fellows Programs, which enable medical, nursing, public health and social work students to volunteer their services in impoverished communities, increased the number of student participants and added three volunteer sites.
March 1, 2000
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Program Result
The Commonwealth of Virginia created a Center for Primary Care and Rural Health in the Virginia Department of Health as a central entity to coordinate public and private recruitment and retention activities.