New IOM Discussion Paper on Population Health: From Research to Action
From participants in the activities of the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) Roundtable on Population Health Improvement comes a discussion paper about how population health research can impact an...
View ArticleGrantWatch Blog Most-Read List for 2013: Post on the Role of Government in...
Happy New Year! We compiled a list of the ten most-read posts during 2013, in case you missed any of them. Interestingly, the most-read post during 2013 was an “oldie-but-goodie” from August 2012 about...
View ArticlePhysically Fit Students Do Better on Academic Test Scores, Says Study Funded...
On January 30, two Kansas state agencies released study results indicating that “on average, students who are physically fit score above standard on Kansas state assessments in reading and math,”...
View ArticleNominee for HHS Secretary Has Had High-Level Jobs at Two Foundations
On Friday, following President Obama’s announcement of health and human services (HHS) secretary Kathleen Sebelius’s resignation, he nominated Sylvia Mathews Burwell as her replacement. Now director of...
View ArticleToxic Stress in Children and the Importance of Listening Between the Lines to...
A report from the Grantmakers In Health (GIH) annual meeting, which was held in March in Atlanta. Nadine Burke Harris, founder and CEO of the Center for Youth Wellness, in San Francisco, was among the...
View ArticlePeople Post: Foundation Staff and Board Member News; Job Openings
Janice Bogner has retired from Interact for Health, formerly known as the Health Foundation of Greater Cincinnati, where she was a senior program officer. She managed the Severe Mental Illness and...
View ArticleThe RWJF’s Culture of Health Prize Awarded to Six Localities
This post originally appeared on our sister blog, Health Affairs Blog, on June 25. Recently, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded its 2014 Culture of Health Prize to six communities. These...
View ArticleNational Obesity Rates Remain High: New Report
Just in time for National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, Trust for America’s Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) recently released their eleventh annual report, The State of...
View ArticlePeople Post: Foundation Staff Member News
Ginny Ehrlich joined the staff of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in July 2014 as director and senior program officer of its Childhood Obesity team. Most recently, she was founding CEO of the...
View ArticlePeople Post: News of Staffers at Foundations around the United States. Job...
Magdalena Beltrán-del Olmo, vice president of communications at the California Wellness Foundation (Cal Wellness), will retire from the foundation in February. Her last day is February 6. She has been...
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