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Human Capital News Roundup: Dental care for underserved children, HIV/AIDS testing, "mixed-use" neighborhoods, and more.

March 22, 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. “Louisville [Kentucky] is going high-tech to try to figure out what’s behind the city’s ...

Minority Medical Faculty Fellows Credit Program with Fostering Their Academic Careers

November 1, 1996 | 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.

South Dakota Creates Regional Coordinated Care Networks to Improve Health Care

March 1, 2000 | 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.

Oral Health: Putting Teeth Into the Health Care System

August 22, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post

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.

Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program

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.

Pipeline, Profession and Practice: Community-Based Dental Education

National Program

To assist dental schools.

Foreword

February 1, 2009 | 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.

Johns Hopkins Develops Curriculum for General Internal Medicine Residents that Focuses on Health Problems of Underserved Communities

January 1, 2003 | 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.

Helping the Albert Schweitzer Fellowship Extend a Helping Hand in the U.S.

July 1, 2001 | 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.

Virginia Establishes a Center for Primary Care and Rural Health to Address Needs

March 1, 2000 | 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.

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