Robert Wood Johnson Foundation | RWJF
The Gift of Water: How Communities Are Sharing Traditional Techniques to Combat Drought. From India to Arizona, communities are collecting rainwater to build resilience to drought and maintain community health. Partially funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this powerful documentary provides an inside look at the affordable housing ...
Grants and Funding Opportunities - RWJF
Grantee Stories. Meet the people working on innovative and time-tested strategies to create lasting change for health equity, supporting evidence that deepens and shifts our understanding of health and wellbeing, and promoting policies and practices that challenge our institutions to be more equitable and effective for all of us. EXPLORE STORIES.
About RWJF: Achieving Health Equity—Faster and Together | RWJF
About RWJF. RWJF is a leading national philanthropy dedicated to taking bold leaps to transform health in our lifetime. To get there, we must work to dismantle structural racism and other barriers to health. Through funding, convening, advocacy, and evidence-building, we work side-by-side with communities, practitioners, and institutions to ...
American Values and Beliefs on Health: A National Survey - RWJF
Jun 30, 2016 · Typology reflects diversity of values and beliefs toward health. The American Health Values Survey explores how adults in the United States think about health on a personal, community, and societal level. The survey measures the importance of personal health, how individuals define health and how it manifests in everyday behaviors.
County Health Rankings and Roadmaps Initiative - RWJF
County Health Rankings & Roadmaps provides data, evidence, guidance, and examples to build awareness of the many factors that influence health and support leaders in growing community power to improve health equity. The annual Rankings measure the health of nearly every county in all 50 states on a range of health-influencing measures that ...
Funding and Research Opportunities | RWJF
Get funded by RWJF: Receive notifications when new funding opportunities are released. Tooltip: This area examines RWJF-sponsored research that identifies policies, laws, and other regulatory tools that can be leveraged to build a Culture of Health. As well, you’ll find research that examines the impact that existing policies, programs, and ...
Job Opportunities With The Largest U.S. Philanthropy | RWJF
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, located in Princeton, N.J., is a leading national philanthropy dedicated to taking bold leaps to transform health in our lifetime. We work side-by-side with communities, practitioners, and institutions to achieve health equity faster and pave the way together to a future where health is no longer a privilege ...
What is Health Equity? - RWJF
In a report designed to increase consensus around meaning of health equity, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) provides the following definition: “Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their ...
How We Work to Transform Health in Our Lifetime | RWJF
We do this by: Funding innovative and time-tested strategies to create lasting change for health equity. Creating space for health practitioners, community leaders, and researchers to work collectively to shift national conversations about health. Supporting evidence that deepens and shifts our understanding of health and wellbeing.
Federal Policy Recommendations to Advance Health Equity from …
Jan 19, 2021 · It is proven to reduce poverty, improve the economy, lower food security, and improve children’s health and educational attainment. The brief recommends steps policymakers can take to strengthen SNAP during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. Increasing Access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) to Advance Health Equity ...