Below is an alphabetical list of all current national programs and resources of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Aligning Forces for Quality: The Regional Market Project
To support grants and technical assistance to community coalitions to work toward high-quality, patient-centered and equitable care.
Caring Across Communities: Addressing Mental Health Needs of Diverse Children and Youth
To establish school-connected mental health services for students, with emphasis on overcoming cultural and language barriers of children in immigrant and refugee families.
Cash & Counseling
To expand a proven model of consumer-directed supportive services to more states, allowing thousands more older adults and people with disabilities to have choice and control over the care they receive.
Dartmouth Atlas Project
To support the continued management, expansion and analyses of the Dartmouth Atlas data infrastructure.
Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care
To undertake a hospital quality improvement collaborative to improve cardiac care for African Americans and Latinos.
Finding Answers: Disparities Research for Change
To seek and evaluate promising interventions in health care settings to reduce racial and ethnic disparities, with an increased focus on disseminating results from the first rounds of grants and sharing lessons learned with the communities working under the Aligning Forces for Quality initiative.
Health Games Research: Advancing effectiveness of interactive games for health
To build the field and advance knowledge about the intersection of video/computer games and health and health care through a national program that emphasizes applied research and convening.
Improving Chronic Illness Care
Program to help health care organizations redesign care to improve the clinical and functional outcomes of patients with chronic illness.
Lead States in Public Health Quality Improvement
To create a peer network of innovator states with experience in designing and implementing a process for systematic assessment of local public health agency capacity and performance.
Medicaid Managed Care Program
Program to improve the quality of and access to Medicaid managed care by working with states, health plans, and consumer groups.
National Demonstration of Early Detection, Intervention and Prevention of Psychosis in Adolescents and Young Adults
To replicate the Portland Identification and Early Referral (PIER) Program that uses evidence-based psychosocial and pharmacologic interventions in the early identification and treatment of adolescents and young adults with severe mental illness.
National Expansion of Playworks: A Program that Promotes Physical Activity and Play at Schools -- 2008-12
To support the second phase of a national expansion of Playworks, an innovative program that uses play to promote physical activity and youth development in schools.
Project HealthDesign: Rethinking the Power and Potential of Personal Health Records
To expand a vision of personal health records and encourage the market to develop products that meet the diverse needs of patients.
Reclaiming Futures: Communities Helping Teens Overcome Drugs, Alcohol and Crime®
To develop service-delivery models that integrate comprehensive services into the juvenile justice system and promote the creation of community-based systems of care for substance-abusing youthful offenders.
Speaking Together: National Language Services Network
To support hospitals in improving the quality and availability of health care language services for patients with limited English proficiency.
Start Strong: Building Healthy Teen Relationships
To fund a national effort to develop and implement effective strategies to prevent relationship violence among youth.
Strategy for the Quality Alliance Steering Committee
To provide support to an alliance of health care organizations that promotes more transparent health care systems across outpatient and inpatient settings.
Tobacco Policy Change: A Collaborative for Healthier Communities and States
To provide resources and technical assistance for community, regional and national organizations and tribal groups advocating for effective tobacco prevention and cessation policy initiatives.
Transforming Care at the Bedside®
To create, test and spread prototype hospital nursing unit-level strategies to improve the work environment and quality of care.
Active Living Research
To stimulate and support research to identify environmental factors and policies that influence physical activity, especially among children and families in low-income communities.
Active Living Resource Center
To provide technical assistance to create active communities.
Active Living by Design
To increase physical activity through community design, public policies and communications strategies.
Active for Life: Increasing Physical Activity Levels in Adults Age 50 and Older®
To increase the number of American adults age 50 and older who engage in regular physical activity.
Advancing Diabetes Self-Management
Program to expand and test multicomponent self-management programs that could be delivered in primary care settings and improve outcomes and cost-effectiveness.
Advancing Recovery: State/Provider Partnerships for Quality Addiction Care
To support partnerships between treatment provider organizations that deliver care and states.
Bridging the Gap: Research Informing Practice and Policy for Healthy Youth Behavior
To improve understanding of school, community, state and national policies and environmental factors affecting youth diet, physical activity, obesity, and tobacco, alcohol and drug use, and to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions to prevent youth obesity and tobacco use.
Building Community Supports for Diabetes Care
To support partnerships among local health care providers and community organizations to address diabetes prevention and self-management issues in communities where cultural and ethnic diversity influence related health behaviors.
Changes in Health Care Financing and Organization
To support policy analysis, research, evaluation and demonstration projects that will provide public and private decision leaders with useful and timely information on health care policy and financing issues.
Children's Futures: Improving Health and Development Outcomes for Children in Trenton, N.J.
To employ a comprehensive set of interventions to improve the health of children in Trenton, New Jersey.
Common Ground: Transforming Public Health Information Systems
To support collaborative processes among state and local public health departments to advance the use of information systems to support preparedness and manage chronic disease.
Communities Creating Healthy Environments: Improving Access to Healthy Foods and Safe Places to Play in Communities of Color
To build state and national momentum to reverse the epidemic of childhood obesity through strategic investment in those communities most affected.
Community Partnerships for Older Adults
To foster the efforts of local public-private partnerships to improve long-term care and supportive services systems for older adults.
Consumer Voices for Coverage: Strengthening State Advocacy Networks to Expand Health Coverage®
To support state-based consumer health advocacy networks to increase their capacity to participate with key stakeholders, such as businesses, hospitals, insurers, providers and government officials, in health care reform efforts.
Evaluating Innovations in Nursing Education
To identify, evaluate and disseminate innovative strategies to increase the teaching capacity of nursing schools, as well as to promote the recruitment and retention of nurse faculty, with the long-term goal of educating more students.
Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program
To strengthen the presence of generalist physician faculty in the nation's medical schools through career development awards to outstanding junior faculty in medical school departments/divisions of family medicine, general internal medicine and general pediatrics.
Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program
To provide four-year postdoctoral research awards to physicians from historically underrepresented groups who are committed to developing careers in academic medicine, improving the health of underserved populations, and furthering understanding and elimination of health disparities.
Health Tracking
To track and report on changes in the U.S. health care system and how they affect Americans' health.
Health e-Technologies: Building the Science of eHealth
To support systematic research in the evaluation of interactive eHealth applications for health behavior change and chronic disease management.
Healthy Eating Research: Building Evidence to Prevent Childhood Obesity
To support investigator-initiated research to identify and assess environmental and policy influences with the greatest potential to improve healthy eating and weight patterns among the nation's children.
Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities: Supporting Community Action to Prevent Childhood Obesity
To catalyze and support policy and environmental change projects to promote children's physical activity and healthy eating, especially in lower-income and racial/ethnic communities at greatest risk.
Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative
To support interdisciplinary studies that address critical knowledge gaps regarding causal linkages between nursing and health care quality and to synthesize, translate and disseminate major findings to key stakeholders.
Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research
To encourage researchers whose crosscutting and innovative ideas promise to contribute meaningfully to improving U.S. health and health care policy.
Jobs to Careers: Promoting Work-Based Learning for Quality Care
To establish systems that train, develop, reward and advance current front-line health and health care workers to improve the quality of care and ensure the quality of services provided to patients and communities.
Ladder to Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Community Health Leaders
To develop a cadre of future health leaders from community-based nonprofit organizations serving vulnerable people.
Leadership for Healthy Communities: Advancing Policies to Support Healthy Eating and Active Living
To work with elected and appointed officials to create and promote healthier communities.
Maximizing Enrollment for Kids: Making Medicaid and SCHIP Work
To increase health insurance coverage of eligible but uninsured children in Medicaid and SCHIP by helping states improve their policies and procedures and to measure the impact of these changes.
Medicaid Leadership Institute
To develop a leadership program for Medicaid directors designed to cultivate the skills necessary to resolve health care challenges facing states and the nation.
New Connections: Increasing Diversity of RWJF Programming
To bring new perspectives to RWJF grantmaking by supporting researchers from historically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities to conduct secondary analysis on existing datasets and to help RWJF address specific research questions.
New Jersey Health Initiatives
To support innovative community-based projects in New Jersey that address one or more of the Foundation's interest areas in health and health care.
New Routes to Community Health
To employ the Sound Partners model of community collaboration to help new immigrants in up to 10 communities around the United States address challenges by using the power of local media.
Partners Investing in Nursing's Future
To support the capacity, involvement and leadership of local foundations and community partners in implementing localized nursing shortage solutions to serve as templates for communities facing similar issues nationwide.
Pipeline, Profession and Practice: Community-Based Dental Education
To assist dental schools in: (1) increasing access to dental care for underserved populations and (2) recruiting and training more low-income and minority students.
Preventing Partner Violence in Immigrant Communities: Strengthening What Works
To evaluate models for prevention of intimate partner violence in immigrant and refugee communities and build capacity in these communities for internal evaluation of best practices.
Public Health Informatics Fellows Training Program
To use fellowship training in public health informatics as a strategy to catalyze the development of the field and create a sustainable pipeline of future leaders in public health informatics.
Public Health Law Research: Making the Case for Laws That Improve Health
To build the evidence for public health law and policy, translate research findings into practical tools to increase the support for and use of law by policy-makers and public health practitioners, and translate findings to other fields and venues to improve and protect health.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity
To develop the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center to Prevent Childhood Obesity as the nation's leading resource for best policies and practices to reverse the epidemic. This authorization will support the center's efforts to: synthesize the evidence; provide expertise and resources to organizations, policy-makers and communities working to prevent childhood obesity; and provide leadership and coordination to fuel a national movement to reverse the epidemic by 2015.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program®
To augment clinical training by providing new skills and perspectives necessary to achieving leadership positions within and outside academia.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Community Health Leaders
To provide recognition for the contributions community health leaders make to achieving RWJF's mission and goals, and to enhance their capacity to have more permanent and widespread impact on health problems.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows
To provide advanced leadership opportunities for nurses in senior executive roles in health services, public health and nursing education who aspire to lead and shape the U.S. health care system of the future.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars
To build the field of population health by training scholars to investigate the connections among biological, behavioral, environmental, economic and social determinants of health and develop, evaluate and disseminate knowledge and best practices.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Fellows
To allow midcareer health professionals and behavioral and social scientists to participate in a one-year residency in Washington, D.C., working for Congress on health policy issues.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Local Funding Partnerships
To continue a matching grants program to establish partnerships between RWJF and local grantmakers in support of innovative, community-based projects that improve health and health care for vulnerable populations.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation New Careers in Nursing Scholarship Program
To address the nursing shortage by funding scholarships in accelerated bachelor's degree programs at nursing schools, with preference given to schools that increase the number of students in these programs or increase enrollment and retention of disadvantaged or minority students.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Nurse Faculty Scholars
To increase the stature and academic standing of nursing faculty and draw more nurses to teaching careers by creating a cadre of national leaders in academic nursing through career development awards to outstanding junior nursing faculty.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Physician Faculty Scholars
To strengthen the leadership and academic productivity of junior medical school faculty who are dedicated to improving health and health care.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research
To help develop a new generation of creative thinkers in health policy research within the disciplines of economics, political science and sociology.
Salud America! The RWJF Research Network to Prevent Obesity Among Latino Children
To stimulate and support investigator-initiated research and build a field of researchers focused on preventing obesity among Latino children.
Smoking Cessation Leadership Center
A center to work with a variety of health professional organizations and institutions to increase their motivation and capability to refer smokers into treatment.
State Coverage Initiatives
To help states develop and implement policies that expand access to health insurance coverage.
State Health Access Reform Evaluation
To support research and evaluation of state health reform initiatives and develop an evidence base for future state and federal reform initiatives.
State Health Leadership Initiative
To accelerate the development of the leadership capacity of state and territorial health officers as policy-makers, administrators and advocates for the health of the public.
Substance Abuse Policy Research Program
To encourage experts in public health, law, political science, medicine, sociology, criminal justice, economics, psychology, and other behavioral and policy sciences to address issues of substance abuse.
Summer Medical and Dental Education Program
To develop and implement a six-week academic enrichment program for undergraduate college students from minority groups, rural areas and economically disadvantaged backgrounds who are interested in pursuing careers in medicine or dentistry.
Wisdom at Work: Retaining Experienced Nurses®
To build an evidence base for what works to retain experienced nurses and develop better understanding of the impact of such interventions.