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Grantee Profiles

Every day, the hard work of our grantees advances the cause of social change in health and health care. Drawing on their talent, passion and commitment, our grantees translate the Foundation's mission into action. Here are their stories.


May 6, 2008		Games for Health Connecting the worlds of video games and health, with positive results

May 2, 2008		An Innovator Identifies an Alarming Trend for Young People: Listening to Rap Music Could Be Dangerous to Their Health Denise Herd, Ph.D., received one of five $300,000 awards in 2000 from the RWJF Innovators Combating Substance Abuse national program.

Apr 30, 2008		New Careers in Nursing Scholarships for New Nursing Students to Address the Nursing Shortage and Increase Diversity Geraldine (Polly) Bednash, Ph.D., R.N., national program director of the new RWJF program, says New Careers will attract students who are making a deliberate and conscious choice to become nurses after having experienced some other kind of career or formal education.

Apr 26, 2008		Building a Public Health Financial Database A tool to better understand how public health funding affects community health outcomes

Apr 11, 2008		Transforming Hospital Culture, And Sharing the Lessons Learned A small, struggling Kansas City children's hospital reinvents itself, starting with a vision that at first seemed as impossible as it was bold.

Apr 3, 2008		Inside and Out: Protecting Prisoners and Communities Community Oriented Correctional Health Services (COCHS) connects the health care provided in local correctional centers with the care provided in the community.

Mar 27, 2008		Measuring the Work Nurses Do in Coordinating Care Research presentations by two Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) grantees shines a spotlight on one of the most important nursing processes.

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