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With a focus on health equity, we stand strong in our commitment to a fair and just opportunity for health and wellbeing.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is focusing on four points essential to everyone's ability to achieve and maintain good health:

Access to Care - Family Supports - Food Security - Housing


The president was absolutely right when he called mRNA vaccines a miracle. In under a year, we had multiple safe and highly effective vaccines. Now, the Trump administration is backing away from mRNA technology. That’s totally out of line with what he said during his first term and flies in the face of science.

—Richard Besser, MD, RWJF President and CEO

America must lead the world to defeat COVID. Here are five ways to win.

RWJF President and CEO Richard Besser and Executive Vice President Julie Morita argue that the United States must summon the full weight of its scientific prowess and economic power to ensure that everyone has what they need to stay safe and healthy—no matter who they are, where they live, or how much money they make. Their five strategic priorities to defeat COVID-19 once and for all begins, but does not end, with vaccination—and the nation’s role in helping to end the pandemic does not cease at our borders.

 

Resources from the Field

National Institutes of Health (NIH)NIH provides the latest research and information on the emerging, rapidly evolving COVID-19 situation.

National Academy of Medicine (NAM)NAM is mobilizing critical expertise to inform COVID-19 response and recovery efforts, including guidance on safely on reopening schools.

Coronavirus Rumor Control: FEMA is helping the public distinguish between rumors and facts regarding the response to COVID-19.

Coronavirus Resource Center: Johns Hopkins is helping advance the understanding of the virus, informing the public, and briefing policymakers in order to guide a response, improve care, and save lives.

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA): FDA is working with U.S. Government partners, including CDC, and international partners to address the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak.

World Health Organization (WHO): WHO provides daily coronavirus situation reports, news, and recommendations for the public.

Grantee Resource

The US COVID Atlas

The US COVID Atlas is a near real-time visualization tool that provides access to current, validated county-level data and spatial analysis to help with better understand of the spread in communities and to bolster planning efforts.

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