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The Human Capital Portfolio seeks to assure that the nation has a diverse, well-trained leadership and workforce in health and health care to meet the needs of all Americans. We aim to:

• foster new methods in leadership development
• build diversity in the health professions 
• increase the number of health and health care professionals trained in quality improvement methods
• address the nurse faculty shortage
• engage RWJF program alumni in our efforts and create opportunities to help the Foundation and American society benefit more extensively from their experience.

Leadership. We are working to develop new methods in leadership development.

The Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellows Program allows mid-career health care practitioners to apply their skills toward improving health policy by working with the U.S. Congress.

The Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leaders program recognizes outstanding individuals who have made significant improvements to health and health care in communities throughout the nation. We also have a strong commitment to building nursing's capacity through nurse leaders.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Executive Nurse Fellows program is an advanced leadership and mentoring program for nurses in senior executive roles in health services, public health and nursing education who aspire to help lead and shape the future U.S. health care system.

Field building. We are also engaged in training and education efforts aimed at building specific fields within health and health care.

One of our long-standing initiatives, the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program®, has provided support to more than 1,000 physicians to expand their reach beyond the biological sciences to health services research in other fields.

One of the goals of our Pipeline, Profession and Practice: Community-Based Dental Education initiative is to expand the field and diversity of community dental practice.

Through our Investigator Awards in Health Policy Research Program, researchers from a wide range of disciplines-such as business, engineering, genetics, journalism, law, medicine, nursing, and social sciences-conduct broad studies of the policy issues in health and health care.

A related initiative, the Robert Wood Johnson Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, provides fellowships to creative thinkers in economics, political science and sociology to pursue research in health policy.

A newer effort, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholars program focuses on building expertise to address the social, environmental, behavioral, economic and biological factors that affect health.

Workforce development and diversity. We have had a long-standing commitment to enhancing the diversity of the health and healthcare workforce.

• We are interested in efforts to promote diversity and cultural sensitivity throughout the health care workforce and encourage multidisciplinary team-building. 
• We are also particularly interested in increasing the racial, ethnic and gender diversity of the nursing work force in order to improve access to care for patients, promote patient satisfaction and to improve communication among patients and nurses.

Recently, the Foundation announced the opening of its Center for Health Policy at the University of New Mexico which will serve as a physical, educational and cultural home for promising minority leaders and others, providing training, research and opportunities they need to inform discussions and debates about health policy.

Increasing Health and Healthcare Professionals Trained in Quality Improvement.

Through an initiative in collaboration with the Hitachi Foundation, Jobs to Careers: Promoting Work-Based Learning for Quality Care seeks to establish systems that train, develop, reward and advance current frontline health and health care workers to improve the quality of care and assure the quality of services provided to patients and communities.

Our Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative is filling gaps in knowledge about nurses' contribution to high-quality care.

Development of Nurse Faculty. The inadequate supply of nurse faculty is a problem that directly affects the growing nursing shortage itself. Improving the cadre of existing nurse faculty, bringing more professors to the classroom and keeping them in their important roles is critical if more new nurses are to be educated. As a result, we are developing programs to:

• address the nursing faculty shortage
• promote nursing school curricula on quality and safety
• develop a national nursing advocacy center

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What We Don't Fund

• We do not support individual scholarships or new scholarship and fellowship programs. 
• We do not support specific disciplinary field building efforts, nor are we currently funding in the area of frontline health and health care workforce.
• While RWJF awards most of its grants in response to calls for proposals, we also award grants in response to unsolicited proposals in our Human Capital Portfolio.

We follow Foundation-wide guidelines for what we don't fund.

Learn more about our strategy and the issues we are seeking to address in this area:

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