The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is working to build a Culture of Health.
Since 1972, RWJF has supported research and programs to uncover the many factors that impact health, and enable people and communities to be as healthy as possible. Working alongside public health leaders, entrepreneurs, research scientists, policymakers and community leaders, the Foundation is committed to ensuring that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to achieve better health where we live, learn, work and play.
"Coronavirus has been highly politicized but granular information is the friend of public health, politicians and the equitable reopening of America," says RWJF President and CEO Rich Besser.
RWJF President and CEO Rich Besser and former RWJF Trustee Jeff Koplan—each of whom led the CDC during public health emergencies—pen an op-ed in Barron's laying out the importance of regular, science-based and careful communications to inform the public during the “shared journey” of the COVID-19 pandemic.
RWJF stands in solidarity with those speaking out against, and working to end, anti-black racial violence and other forms of interpersonal and structural racism, and seeking racial justice in America.
The Foundation welcomes a new Trustee, Dr. Williams, whose research focuses on the complex ways in which health is affected by factors such as socioeconomic status, stress, racism, social conditions, and health behaviors.
RWJF President and CEO Rich Besser's op-ed in USA Today describes states attempting a premature return to 'normal' as sacrificing those with the fewest choices.
Melissa Blair
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation media@rwjf.org or (609) 627-5937
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