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Father working from home while daughters homeschool

We value community wisdom and institutional knowledge, and our commitment to continuous learning allows us to listen and connect insights to chart a course to health equity—faster and together. Explore news, research, policy updates and thought leadership from experts within and outside RWJF, below.

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The landscape affecting the barriers to health equity is constantly shifting. Stay up to date as RWJF experts share their perspectives on timely news affecting our collective ability to get to a future where health equity is a reality.

Strengthening Medicaid should remain a national imperative

Perspective from Vice President of Policy Avenel Joseph
Read the op-ed in Route Fifty

The Promise and Peril of Being Transgender in America

Perspective from RWJF Executive Vice President Julie Morita and Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, National Center for Transgender Equality
Read their op-ed in U.S. News

Work requirements are a policy failure: Why are they still an option?

Perspective from Katherine Hempstead, Senior Policy Adviser
Read her op-ed in The Hill

Expert Insights

Sharing solutions and stories from communities across America, along with critical perspectives and the best available data and evidence that can inform progress toward a future where health is no longer a privilege, but a right.

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How a Community is Turning Hope into Action to Reclaim Their Future

Residents transform their neighborhood as they root out structural racism and advance health equity.

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Public and Community Health Structural Racism
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The Road to Health Equity and Justice is Hard, Worth It, and Best Traversed Together

We have sometimes acted in ways that deepened the very inequities that we seek to undo. But we are listening, learning, and embracing new ways to do better.

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Health Disparities Structural Racism
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How Shifting Power in Research Leads to Better Solutions

When people who face inequities participate in the research process, they create solutions that drive lasting change. Learn how RWJF is supporting this work—and apply for a funding opportunity.

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Health Leadership Development Community Power
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Our Research

We work to expand our nation's evidence base on what can help us achieve health equity faster and together. We recognize that equitable data collection and analysis is necessary to dismantle barriers to health equity.

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Closing the Medicaid Coverage Gap

Despite massive reductions in the number of uninsured Americans as a result of states expanding their Medicaid programs under the Affordable Care Act, 10 states have not expanded eligibility, denying health coverage to nearly 2 million people.

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Healthcare Coverage and Access Policy and Law
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Promoting Policy Tools That Advance Health and Racial Equity

RWJF is committed to promoting and protecting inclusive policymaking and ballot measure access, two democratic tools that are critical to achieving a world where health is not a privilege for some but a right for all.

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Building Local Alignment

The goal of this initiative is to increase collaboration among public health, healthcare, and social service organizations working to improve community health.

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Equitable Community Development Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
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Advocacy & Policy

We are committed to advancing the policies, practices, and systems changes that can dismantle structural barriers to wellbeing, especially racism. We take the long view and focus on efforts that have a lasting impact on systemic, generational change.

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